Sooooo apparently I have to get shots.
Technically, it's not a shot. I have to do that skin test thing for tuberculosis (REALLY?! IT'S 2010. IN AMERICA! NO ONE HAS TB!) but NEEDLES OH MY SWEET JESUS WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
That is all.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Classes!
Yesterday I finally got off my bum and emailed Peebles about the classes I need to take next semester at UCL. There's this tricky little rule (i.e., the reason why I'll be graduating in May instead of December) (yes I'm bitter about this) where students doing the French Language Immersion Program (which will henceforth be known as FLIP because I'm lazy) have to take a crash/immersion course where you pretty much sit around and speak French for 3 hours for the first few days in Belgium, 9 hours of French courses (3 classes) and may take 3-6 hours of classes in other departments (2 classes) in order to remain full time students. This is what I'll be taking:
French 312 -- Writing in French I
French 317 -- Contemporary French/Francophone Civilization
French 398 -- Intermediate Oral Practice
Marketing 427 -- International Marketing
English 316 -- Writing & International Trade
I'll be doing 398 twice, because it's also the crash course all of us have to do at the beginning of the semester. Fr317 is only offered to the Clemson students, so I'll have that with the kids in my program (and I think Dr. Denis, one of the chairs of this program from Belgium, teaches it). Everything else? I get to mingle with foreign kids! :D
I'm only taking Eng316 at the insistence of Touya, my academic adviser, who I am loathe to listen to anyway because he neglected to mention that study abroad will put me behind graduating in the first place ('cause you know...that's only his JOB), and then proceeded to tell me (after I reamed him for it), "Well, sometimes, staying a little longer can be good." Do you wanna pay my tuition? No? Then sit down, shut up and GO HOME. Ugh. I am seriously about to pay for a whole semester + some change to eat chocolate, get fat, drink beer, and meander around Europe for 6 months. How about I just take a semester off and wander anyway? It'll be CHEAPER.
I think we'll end this on that positive note, hahaha
French 312 -- Writing in French I
French 317 -- Contemporary French/Francophone Civilization
French 398 -- Intermediate Oral Practice
Marketing 427 -- International Marketing
English 316 -- Writing & International Trade
I'll be doing 398 twice, because it's also the crash course all of us have to do at the beginning of the semester. Fr317 is only offered to the Clemson students, so I'll have that with the kids in my program (and I think Dr. Denis, one of the chairs of this program from Belgium, teaches it). Everything else? I get to mingle with foreign kids! :D
I'm only taking Eng316 at the insistence of Touya, my academic adviser, who I am loathe to listen to anyway because he neglected to mention that study abroad will put me behind graduating in the first place ('cause you know...that's only his JOB), and then proceeded to tell me (after I reamed him for it), "Well, sometimes, staying a little longer can be good." Do you wanna pay my tuition? No? Then sit down, shut up and GO HOME. Ugh. I am seriously about to pay for a whole semester + some change to eat chocolate, get fat, drink beer, and meander around Europe for 6 months. How about I just take a semester off and wander anyway? It'll be CHEAPER.
I think we'll end this on that positive note, hahaha
Friday, October 22, 2010
Let's get it started!
Hello friends! As you all know, I had started a blog this summer that was SUPPOSED to chronicle my adventures in Japan that never happened. We're going to try this again, and this time the results should be much more successful :]
My major (Language and International Trade) requires a semester of study abroad, and the easiest destination as far as transferring credits back to the university goes is l'Université catholique de Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. It's a bit east of Brussels. Here's a map so you peeps can have a reference.
.... did NOT realize that was so close to Germany. Ew, Germany. Maybe I'll move to Luxembourg. Anypoodles, that's Belgium! There's lots of beer, and lots of chocolate, and lots of waffles. Nothing is open on Sunday, everyone goes home on the weekends, and they all party on like Tuesday. Or so I've heard.
To start things off on a totally sour note, Clemson is NOT persuading me to be one of those wonderful alumni who donate oodles of money to the school after graduation. AT ALL. Like, they will be lucky if I even tell people this is where I went to college. I will lie and say I went somewhere with cooler colors (purple and orange? REALLY?). This is why:
1: Because my adviser is a dirty little liar, studying abroad will put me a semester behind so I'll have to graduate in May '12 instead of December '11
2: the office ladies are rude; even my friend Kevin says so and he never says mean things about ANYONE. And he only came here for summer school! UGH.
3: these forms are difficult. You know if you're 21+ you have to get an FBI background check to apply for a student visa? Madness, all of it.
Anyway. The program I'm participating in is the French Language Immersion program, headed by one of my professors, Kelly Peebles, and I've met the head of the Belgian school, Philippe Denis, and he's really nice in a totally whimsical European man kind of way. There are only 15 Clemson kids participating in the program and I don't know any of the other 14 so this should be an interesting adventure. I haven't picked which classes I'm taking yet, but I have to do that by Monday so I should probably get moving.
As of right now, I have been fingerprinted and have sent off for my FBI background check. The cop at the police station that fingerprinted me seemed really impressed by the fact that I needed a background check, hahaha.
Cop: ...FBI background check? O_o <-- "wut" face
Me: Yup! :D
That's pretty much what happened verbatim.
This was supposed to just be an introductory post and it's getting really long so I'll stop here. We're just in the organizational phases of Study Abroad, so updates will most likely be far and few between. Next time, I'll give you the low down on classes!
-- xox
My major (Language and International Trade) requires a semester of study abroad, and the easiest destination as far as transferring credits back to the university goes is l'Université catholique de Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. It's a bit east of Brussels. Here's a map so you peeps can have a reference.
.... did NOT realize that was so close to Germany. Ew, Germany. Maybe I'll move to Luxembourg. Anypoodles, that's Belgium! There's lots of beer, and lots of chocolate, and lots of waffles. Nothing is open on Sunday, everyone goes home on the weekends, and they all party on like Tuesday. Or so I've heard.To start things off on a totally sour note, Clemson is NOT persuading me to be one of those wonderful alumni who donate oodles of money to the school after graduation. AT ALL. Like, they will be lucky if I even tell people this is where I went to college. I will lie and say I went somewhere with cooler colors (purple and orange? REALLY?). This is why:
1: Because my adviser is a dirty little liar, studying abroad will put me a semester behind so I'll have to graduate in May '12 instead of December '11
2: the office ladies are rude; even my friend Kevin says so and he never says mean things about ANYONE. And he only came here for summer school! UGH.
3: these forms are difficult. You know if you're 21+ you have to get an FBI background check to apply for a student visa? Madness, all of it.
Anyway. The program I'm participating in is the French Language Immersion program, headed by one of my professors, Kelly Peebles, and I've met the head of the Belgian school, Philippe Denis, and he's really nice in a totally whimsical European man kind of way. There are only 15 Clemson kids participating in the program and I don't know any of the other 14 so this should be an interesting adventure. I haven't picked which classes I'm taking yet, but I have to do that by Monday so I should probably get moving.
As of right now, I have been fingerprinted and have sent off for my FBI background check. The cop at the police station that fingerprinted me seemed really impressed by the fact that I needed a background check, hahaha.
Cop: ...FBI background check? O_o <-- "wut" face
Me: Yup! :D
That's pretty much what happened verbatim.
This was supposed to just be an introductory post and it's getting really long so I'll stop here. We're just in the organizational phases of Study Abroad, so updates will most likely be far and few between. Next time, I'll give you the low down on classes!
-- xox
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