First week of school, first week of school!! Have I ever had
a better first week of school? Don’t think so! As I write this I am sitting in
peaceful Yerba Buena park, waiting for my roommate to finish her eye exam. We
are both in the 8am Western Civ class, which, whether or not you are a nerd, is
worth getting up for, mainly because of the awesome professor. He’s energetic,
extremely knowledgeable and genuinely funny, and often he plays music
(classical) in the background while he’s talking. This makes it intense,
because he has an uncanny knack for matching the music to the subject matter at
hand (a little like the Classical Kids tapes). In the first class he made a
comment about how things had changed since he was a kid: “I was in elementary
school, this was right after the dinosaurs had died out” and this made me do a
double take – GF, you never told me you had relatives from your own epoch
living in San Fran!
In preparation for this class, we all had to take a placement
exam, the “Humanties and Writing Assessment”. I felt that I did quite poorly on
mine, and made a drawing on the test to express this feeling. Below is the
sheet I received in my mailbox, the last page of the test, with my drawing and
the marker’s comment.
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Oh, well. At any rate, one thing that is definitely not bad at all is my continued cooking prowess.
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| Who says college kids don't eat well?? |
This afternoon the SF Opera presented “Opera in the Park”, a free event in Golden Gate Park. I attended with some of my new friends, not forgetting to grab a geocache along the way, nor to take note of the Haight-Stanyan music store.
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| Friends N and M (from BC!) with cache |
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| I guess all the good names were taken. |
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| Issac Stern in (very) mixed company! |
The opera event was quite well attended, several thousand people at least. It was a real treat to hear the SF Symphony (my first time hearing them live!) – I think they may be the tightest, most perfectly balanced orchestra I’ve ever heard (live, that is).
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| And this isn't even a quarter of the crowd! |
Last but not least, something that caught my eye on the bus yesterday and made me do a triple take.
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| LOL!! |
TTFN, and stay tuned for next week!
-Antisocial Violinist
That was a Finding Nemo reference at the top, wasn't it? ;)
ReplyDeleteHa, I liked the little doodle on your test sheet. The 'end friendship' was great, too.
I'm glad to hear that your time in SF is going so well! I had my first day at U of C today; it went by far more quickly and easily than I'd imagined it would. We didn't really do anything in Stats or French other than talk about what the course would be like, and the French homework was really easy.