An Update

Here's a picture of my view from my dorm:

Last weekend I moved from my dorm that I stayed in from September to December then January to early May.  Then I moved up to my new one.  It's a single dorm and it's pretty small, but it's fine.  I like the view, and I like the solitude, but it's warm up on the sixth floor and the desk is really low so I have to hunch while I work on my internship.  Also, because I don't have curtains, it doesn't get dark in my room even at night, although fortunately this hasn't prevented me from sleeping.

Last Monday I started my class called ¡SÍSÍ!, which means Summer Intensive Spanish Immersive.  For four hours a day I spoke Spanish with other classmates, and I found it very fun and useful.

For the next six weeks, I will be taking Alaskan History, which is a Biology class that has four lectures a week and two labs.  I'm not looking forward to this one as much as I was looking forward to my Spanish class, but I need to take a Science class/lab sometime.

July first, I will be taking my Biology Final and wrapping up my internship.  The second is a free day with currently nothing to do.  I might go see a movie that day, perhaps the new Mad Max.  The third, at 11 pm, I fly out to Seattle, and then at about 10:30 am I'll be back in Boise.  This will be my second red-eye flight I've ever taken, so what I plan to do this time is to take some sleeping pills so that I can sleep for the first leg, while praying that no one brought their baby.

End of the Semester

I'm glad to be finally done with this semester.  I found my classes very stressful and draining.  One of the assignments I had to do in my Language Contact class was a research project.  I looked at changes in Gwich'in as languages learners studied the language.  The entire time I didn't feel like I understood the project.  I'm glad its behind me now

After my last final I had three days of somewhat of a break.  I don't have any classes, but I did do some work on my internship.  Monday I start my Spanish class which lasts for two weeks.  Then, I have six weeks of Biology.  The entire time I will be trying to get to as close to forty hours of work as I can.  Forty hours is a lot considering I'm also taking classes, but the money will help a lot.  Hopefully it will also help line up some future internship or actual work.

After my biology class and internship end, I will fly back to Boise on July fourth,  In July, my mom and I mean to visit our relatives in California for a bit.  I will see my grandma, my aunts and uncles, and my cousins.  It should be fun, hopefully.  The weather should be much warmer there and the water much rarer, which will not be fun.

My allergies have been pretty bad up here.  I'm not sure what is in the air that has been giving me a sore throat and a cough for a while, but hopefully sudafed will take care of it.  I'll also be needing a fan, apparently.  I've been told that the dorm in which I'll be staying gets miserably hot during the summer.

I'm also trying to figure out my living situation for the next two semesters.  I want to live in an on campus apartment with three other friends.  However, there is already a random person living in the apartment they chose.  I've been in contact with this person and he said he'd be willing to move provided he had another apartment in which to live.  So, I applied for a different apartment so that we could swap.  The man said that he'd be willing to move, so long as the people where he'd be moving were clean and quiet.  So, I emailed the people who I am assigned to live with (but won't actually live with), and found out they were in a similar situation as us, except I was the random person.  So, their fourth person is getting a different apartment, and hopefully, we can do a three way switch, with everybody getting what they wanted.