What a Wonderful World

Ok.  First of all, it has been half a year since I last blogged, and to be honest it will probably be another half a year before I do it again.  I just really had the urge to take a break from studying and post something.

It is almost 6:30 on a Friday night and I am doing something I normally would not be doing; I am studying.  And I can honestly say that this is the first time I have ever enjoyed it..

I just finished my first week of school of my final year of college, and it is definitely a bitter sweet feeling.  I want to enjoy this last year of school as much as I can because I know I will never get this experience again.  On the other hand, school can get old.  I will just leave it at that.

Fall semester is my favorite semester.  It makes me feel studious.  All the trees on campus start to change colors, the sun starts to set a little earlier each day, I go to the library to study, and I ride my bike to school with my jacket on.  It gives me that warm fuzzy feeling.

But here is the reason why I had the urge to blog.  Earlier this week I was not feeling good about my classes.  I guess it was a mixture of bad teachers and laziness, but I was not thrilled about the next 3 and a half months.  Thankfully, my attitude has changed.  I had just finished reading the second chapter of my Finance textbook (probably going to be the worse class this semester), and then I started reading the second chapter of my International Business textbook, and I was loving it.  It broke down all of the regions of the world and explained what countries were in each of them.  I am embarrassed to say I did not know much of anything about these places before I started reading.  Maybe I learned about them a while ago and then forgot like I usually do.  But it is so fun to learn where places are and what life is like in them.  I hope this info sticks with me this time.

The other reason why I love reading about it so much is because of the people I worked with at the Hyatt this summer.  Knowing them made the world seem more real to me.  This summer was the most contact I have had with other people besides Americans in my whole life.  They were from places like Moldova, Slovenia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, and Serbia.  And I will probably regret posting this on the Internet, but now I know that these are all places in Western Europe (I am just trying to be real with y'all).  And my Business and Ethics class will tie nicely into what I am learning about in International Business because we will be learning about different types of governments.  So I will get an even closer glimpse of what life is like for these people that are my age that live across the world from me.

I am so glad that at least two of my classes are going to be interesting this semester.  I was kind of regretting my decision to be a Business major because I don't really see myself as a business person, but I think it was a smart decision.  Even though I feel like I have forgotten a lot, I think the information will come back to me when I need it when I have a real job.  And I feel like the stuff I am learning is important for anyone to know.  Anyway, for now I am going to enjoy being a student for one more year, and then I will have the rest of my life to be a grown-up.