Classes Begin!

Back to school, back to school. While most of you are sitting on your duffs lazing about the home for your summer vacation, I began classes on July 26. My lectures are HUGE, but not overwhelmingly so. Right now I’m enrolled in: The Biology of Australian Flora & Fauna, Sex: Science and the Community, Gothic Fictions, and Australian Indigenous Studies. The Biology class has been interesting so far, and looks like it’ll be an easy course, which will be a nice break from the usual. The Sex Science and the Community class is a multidisciplinary look at how we look at sex (both gender and the act), and has been pretty laid back. However, they’ve already alluded that they’re going to give Americans a hard time in the future for both our sex education standards (or lack thereof) and for the “sexually repressed Southern United States region.” That lecture should be fun… Gothic Fictions is all about the dark, dirty, supernatural and scary, which is everything I’ve ever wanted in a literature course. We’re reading Dracula, Frankenstein, Interview with a Vampire, and watching True Blood, and The Bride of Frankenstein. It’s by far my hardest class with the level of discourse and the fact that we read a novel a week, but might be my favorite so it’s not difficult to put in the work. And finally, my Indigenous Studies class is difficult in that I have absolutely no background in Australian history, but is extremely interesting because it has me thinking in new ways. Basically, I love the classes I’m taking over here. The only problem I foresee is that because of the class size, they record every lecture and post notes for every one. This makes it EXTRA tempting to sleep in when my alarm goes off at 7:30am…