beyond the green

So, we are now in the last week or so of September and classes are going strong as well as the balancing of homework, sports, and social life. My classes, thankfully, are not too stressful but are keeping me busy.

I am a business major and I love it! I just took my first test of the year today and I believe I did quite well! I am currently in all business classes: Bus. Law, Accounting, Marketing, and Entrepreneurship. I am actually excited for this semester because all of these classes interest me in some way. The only thing that will be challenging is that I have an on-going marketing plan as well as an on-going business plan in two different classes and almost each week there is something due on either one of the plans. So I am being very diligent on writing my due dates on a calendar!

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There’s nothing like a 2:30 a.m. wake up to foster some group bonding.

Scene: I was asleep. Had been for about 2 hours. My dream was getting crazy though, because suddenly there was a HUGE ‘crack!’, to which I chose to ignore, in my dream.
But then I heard voices. My roommate was asking me if I had heard that lightning strike. Girls in my mod were saying to go outside. Somewhere in the distance I could hear the high-pitched screech of a fire alarm.

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Living with a host family is much different than living on campus. My house is fairly quiet because my Ecuadorian brothers have already moved out of the house and I don’t have a host father. I live with one host mother. She is a short, beautiful lady who loves to cook. When she was younger she was a caterer for weddings, large fiestas, and family gatherings.

Cake my mom made

Every evening Maritza, my host-mother, cooks up a delicious hot meal for me to eat.

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I’m at rehearsal for the Fall Fest play as I write this. We’re working on “Our Town,” Thornton Wilder’s American classic. Rehearsal for this play has been different than any of the other plays I’ve been in at Bethel (which is all but one since I was a freshman, and the one I wasn’t in only had one part for a white male, and it went to a senior, as I was a freshman at the time), mostly because the cast is so big. Many larger plays are impossible to produce here just because there aren’t a huge number of us that are even interested. But John McCabe-Juhnke has decided to plow through, and he somehow got enough fantastic people to audition.

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Officially I have reached the point of exhaustion. 5 or 6 hours of sleep for the past three nights. On a better note, I have accomplished a lot in the past few days.

Yesterday I had a great bassoon lesson. A new teacher for me, but I felt like I really proved myself. I left feeling new motivation for learning excerpts, and excitement to work on something I didn’t finish last year. I learned some cool fake fingerings for faster passages, and I was refreshed on the Saint-Saens Sonate- 4th movement.

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