january's almost over. what's up with that? it feels like it just got here. anyhow, happy new year.
on the agenda for this semester: structured inequalities, sociological theory, spanish conversation, latin american history at the movies (once a week; we essentially just watch movies and discuss them), and liberal arts and sciences calculus (calc designed for those of us who could care less about math but need to take it because it's required). it's a relatively easy semester. which is nice, because i have a lot of crap to get done for spain, and in march & april i will have an additional three hours a week to my course load with the required class to get ready for study abroad. exhausted yet? i am.
things have been going relatively well with my extracurriculars, but they haven't really taken off for the semester yet. especially spanish club. the activities fair is this week, so hopefully we'll pull in some more members. as far as amnesty is concerned, we're busy planning (hopefully) two events for this semester. one is a hunger banquet. we want to have a dinner to raise awareness about global hunger by corresponding the percentage of attendance to percentage of the global population in various levels of wealth. so, (this is not the correct statistic, by the way) if 70% of the global population is in the lowest wealth bracket, 70% of participants will receive the typical amount of food someone from that group would experience in a typical meal. (we're not going to let them starve, though. we'll have a buffet later.) the other is a slut walk. you can find more information here, but it's basically a movement that started in Canada saying that it's not okay to blame the victim of sexual assault based on what s/he was wearing, or anything else for that matter. so i'll let you know how those are coming along once we make some more progress. and if you have any questions, ask away.
i spent the holiday (MLK day, in case you already forgot) in Columbia with Kaitlin. we watched girls (the hbo show), and that was basically all we did. it was awesome.
other than that, nothing much has really been going on, just running around like a headless chicken trying to get stuff done for spain (ok not really, but that's what it feels like).
also, being poor really sucks.
leaving the country makes you poor.
that is all i have to say for this installment.
have a good rest of january/beginning of february!
