School...

Prior to my impending trip to London, life has been pretty quiet and mainly revolved around school. I am finally into the swing of things with school, it only took almost a month of being here to finally begin my entire schedule.

On Monday mornings from 8:30-11:45 I have French class. Clearly these people don't realize that there is a reason that I have never taken a class earlier than 9:30 and that my brain doesn't function in English that early, let alone French. So it will be interesting. The class is mainly focused on improving our confidence in speaking, which is definitely where my weakness is.

Tuesdays are my roughest day of the week, with two three-hour classes back to back. First, I have Sales Force Management with a professor who hasn't had to speak English on a daily basis in over 15 years. It is clear that his English is a bit rusty and it could add an interesting dynamic to the class. After Sales Force Management, I go directly to European Econ, my least favorite class of the week. It drags by and not only do I not find the material interesting, the professor tends to read directly off the slides, so you can't help but wonder why you are wasting your time. I have presentations in both of these classes tomorrow afternoon, so I will be happy when 7:30 rolls around and I don't have to worry about them anymore.

Wednesday at 8:30 I have E-Business. It is by far my favorite class. Not only is the information interesting and timely (we talked about social networking and shopping online the first class) the professor is awesome. He's from Ireland and is hilarious, he makes the material interesting and even manages to not only keep everyone awake but engaged in the class even first thing in the morning. Quite the achievement for a college professor!

I have my last class of the week on either Thursday or Friday afternoons, they alternate each week. This is my international marketing class that I have already told you all about, considering it was the only class I had for the first two weeks. It is a relief to have our presentations done, although we are still waiting to hear our grade, which is a bit nerve wracking!

We have group projects in every class I'm taking, it seems to be an extremely common part of the curriculum and adds an interesting dynamic, especially since we usually have people of multiple nationalities working together in a group. It's nice to not have a ton of homework and studying each night, but it makes it difficult to have to try and coordinate schedules with multiple people in a group, especially when we all have multiple projects that we are preparing for.

School isn't overly difficult, but the expectations are much higher than I expected. Everyone says that the classes are much easier abroad, I don't know if that's the case here though. It is a relief to know that all of my classes are pass/fail, otherwise I might have to miss out on some traveling to work on homework!