Wednesday January 20th

Today I had my first set of B classes – Theatre that Matters Performing Community, Global Studies (which is every day), Communicating in Small Groups, and I audited the World Theatre Techniques class I want to add.  However, by the end of my classes I was seriously freaking out about whether to do the recommended 12 courses and drop either World Theatre Techniques or Communication, or to keep both and do the more stressful maximum 15 credits.

The thing is, I have always enrolled in as many classes as possible, and even though communications won’t count towards anything for my major or minors I still really wanted to try it. However, because we’re in class every day we’re at sea, and because of all the other seminars they have and group meeting that are going on and people which there are to meet and things that must be planned for the ports, it was starting to seem really unappetizing and really unnerving.  Usually when I’m that unnerved I have to call someone like my parents or Kelsey or other people who have smart things to say but alas, that would be really expensive while I’m still on the boat.  Also, all the classes have nightly readings, and because A) its kind of hard to concentrate on the boat because of the rickety noises and the things that fall down as it sways across the Pacific Ocean B) reading on a swaying campus makes me all dizzy in the head and C), again, there are so many other activities and things to be involved in, I really wanted to drop a class.  On the other hand, my overachiever nature was really uncomfortable with that and was “complaining” that I might have too much free time.

I need to breathe more often.

I ended up adding World Theatre Techniques and dropping Team Communication, and though I won’t get to “plan” a service project myself, per se, I will enroll in a bunch of others. 

All this worrying made me miss the hula and Hawaii seminars, not to mention evening snacks (fo freeeeee), but oh well.  Hopefully this schedule will better suit my needs.

It is already I think, I did go to a “knitting for a purpose” event.  So yeah, I have minor minor knitting skills.  But only when copying someone with major major knitting skills, of course.