I got an A in urban studies!!!!! I honestly thought I was going to get a C in that class! We were graded on three things... the two 20+ page papers (individual) and then the 30+ page group one. We were only told the grade of the first paper and she never told us what we got on the second one or the group one. So theoretically, she could give us any grade she wanted to... and since I didn't participate as much and she didn't really know me, I thought for sure she'd give me a C. But no! I GOT AN A!
Spanish also got posted today :) And I got an A-! I've never worked so hard for a grade in my life, so I am thrilled! I knew that the final would either push my grade up to an A- or keep it at a B+ so I spent a bajillion hours last week just studying for that exam. And it paid off!
I ended with a B+ in Calc and a B in my Brazil class. I'm happy with the calc score... and slightly confused by the Brazil one. The professor gave me a pretty low score on my final essay and I'm positive it was better than that. So I should have gotten a B+ or A- but whatever.
The last week has been soooooo great! I've loved being home! But I will readily admit that I do miss Wash U and can't wait to go back :) Quick recap on the last two weeks...
We didn't have class last week, so Mon-Wed was "reading week". I have to say that was my favorite week of the semester :) I loved getting up early, sitting in the seminar room down the hall with a cup of coffee and studying allllllllllll day. literally. i'd leave to grab lunch. and dinner. and maybe go to the gym. but it was so nice for the sun to rise and set and not worry about how much time i was spending studying... cuz that's all I had to focus on.
My two finals were Thursday afternoon. Spanish from 1-3 and Calc from 3:30-5:30. It was pretty killer to have them back to back - my brain was fried after the spanish one and I didn't know how I was going to manage to do calculus for two more hours. But before I knew it, they were over and my first semester of college was done!
My friend and I baked and decorated christmas cookies for the floor thursday night and managed to set the fire alarm off at 12:30 am... (and everyone else still had finals on friday hahaha) We learned later that it wasn't actually us who had set off the alarm, but everyone still thought it was us since we had been baking :) It was hilarious
I flew home friday morning and got to spend friday night with my friends from high school. We went to dinner and then to the homecoming basketball game... it was good to be with them and to see everyone... but it was very weird to be back at school. Everyone looked so young!!
Saturday and Sunday I spent relaxing and spending time with friends from church. I had a really great group of friends from church and I've missed them a lot - so it was great to spend time with them! My best friend steph came over sunday night and we made peppermint cake pops :) YUM!!
This week... I've been running around doing errands and christmas shopping and seeing more people. All great things and I've loved having a car and being able to do whatever I need to do! Although, I don't like having to share with spencer!! That is weird!!! The biggest problem is that he doesn't plan ahead very far so at 1pm when I ask him what his plans for the evening are and if I can drop him anywhere before I go meet up with friends, he'll have no idea. That doesn't work very well with your very organized sister, mr. spencer.
I finally saw the back specialist again yesterday. She was happy that i'm PAIN FREE FOR 2.5 MONTHS! But I need to get stronger before she'll let me play golf, or soccer, or run... all things I would like to be doing very soon!! I'll go back to physical therapy after the new year for the two weeks that I'm home and then will take those exercises back to school with me and hopefully get nice and strong :) My goal is to be given the okay to play on my floor's IM soccer team for this spring, then be able to play golf by May so I can help coach my old high school team, and then be able to run as much as I want by this summer!! Maybe I'll be so happy to run that I'll want to do a half marathon again :) They have a rock n roll one in St. Louis every October (happens to be during parent and family weekend cough cough) and maybe I'll be up for that. :) We'll see!
The last exciting piece of news, and sorry this is so ridiculously long... is that I will probably be spending a big chunk of my summer in Mexico this coming summer! I've been debating what I want to do this summer... and for most of the fall, I was so homesick that I couldn't imagine being anywhere but at home this summer. But now... I'm loving living on my own. After just a few days back here, I'm already antsy! So... I talked to my momma and was running through my options, with different WU programs and such, and I knew that I wanted to go somewhere where I can use my spanish, because I'm in love with it now. And then she reminded me of all my relatives in Mexico... and it seemed perfect!! So there's a lot more to be done before any of that is final, but for now... I'm going to plan on spending a month or six weeks there with my family!
I think that's everything! Merry Christmas!
Love you all!
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