Academics

With all my blog posts about trips and fun, your probably thinking "is she doing any studying?" And yes, of course I am! haha. My classes are going good, but definitely not as easy as what you would think. I mean it is called STUDYING abroad for a reason.

In my German class, we have learned how to say some basic food words, useful phrases when meeting people, and how to say the time. My teacher is awesome too. She is pretty young so she tells us where all the hip places to go to.

In my Road to Sustainability class, my teacher is very knowledgeable about America and the environment. He absolutely loves the book Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach. I have learned how humans have multiplied exponentially and the explosion of the use of agriculture and The Green Party in Europe. Lots of interesting information to take in and learn from for future generations yet to come. How to be more efficient and self sustaining.

I am also taking a European Competition Policy class, which i was excited to take but not so much any more. It's basically an economics course. I took microeconomis last year, so its taking some time to remember it all. Yet, it makes my brain think and i know any econ class is very helpful to have. My teacher knows how to present the material well and makes sure that we all understand the material well. I like her very much.

My EU policies course is some what dry. The professor reads the powerpoint slides from the screen and tries to hard to make us like the class. I figured while I am here studying the European Union, this class would help me dive into it all but not so much. I am hoping that I can just get by with the class and that is all.

The last course I am taking is a Seminar class all about the the European Union. My professor is great, and surprsingly pretty humorous. He makes us do a lot of interaction by getting into groups to present what we have read and learned. Currently we are talking about the CAP and the Cohesion Fund. At the end of the semester, the whole program does a Model EU where everyone represents a country. I will be representing Spain as the Head of Government. It will be interesting to see how it will turn out.

Overall, I am so happy with this program. So grateful to travel to so many different places with great people from the East to West Coast (a majority from Penn State and The University of Puget Sound in Washington). Next week I will be in Luxembourg, Brussels and Paris looking at castles, eating waffles, and looking for love. <3