Halloween Wrap-up

It ended up being a pretty decent Halloween. Casey and Grant called me on Saturday and told me that I was going to be Mario and Casey was going to be Luigi at Grant's brother's halloween party that night. It was a decent costume and the party was a lot of fun. Than I went out last night with Amanda and her friends. I wanted to think of a new costume because I didn't want to be Mario all by myself with no Luigi, but alas I couldn't think of anything so I went as Mario again.

I just registered for classes and I think I'm going to die next semester. I am taking two upper-division economics classes and two upper-division political sciences classes and one critical thinking senior seminar international affairs class. They are all for my international affairs major and I have to take all of them in order to graduate in may. No time for fun, no time for any languages (well I could take Chinese, but that class has been pretty bad this semester and I'm done with the Chinese major requirements anyway, so I don't need it). I don't really even like the international affairs major that much, and here I am about to take a full load of pure international affairs classes!!!! It is going to take everything I've got to make it through next semester and graduate on time without going insane. In fact, it is making me kind of insane already just thinking about it.

Speaking of Chinese, I think this is one of the worst language classes I've ever taken, and I've taken more language classes than the average college senior (and a few bad ones too, like the Chinese class I had before going to China, for example). In 7 years of studying languages, I've never received anything less than A's, but I think I'm getting a B this semester. It's not that I'm not trying or that I'm not doing homework or missing classes or anything like that. I have done all the homework, have only missed a class or two, I prepare the readings like I'm supposed to. I really don't understand what's wrong!!! I am going to be pissed if after spending a year abroad I come back and can't even pull better than a B in Chinese! I'm not the only one in the class with less-than-satisfactory grades either. A few others feel like they are getting lower grades than they deserve too. But then there's Amanda who seems to be doing just fine for some reason. Anyway, wo xiang bu tong.

Also, mom wanted me to write more about selling the jag. I don't know what all there is to say. I couldn't afford to keep it anymore, so I sold it on eBay. It sold for a lot less than I was hoping it would and I lost a lot of money on it. It was an expensive lesson, but I guess in the end I am glad to be rid of it now. Dad says it was worth it to lend me the money for it just to see the look on my face when I won the auction two years ago, but I didn't get to see the face, so I guess I didn't get as much out of it, haha.