First day of classes

(9/13/2010)  This was the first day of classes.  It was just a really long day, I had german for 2 hours in the morning, then Philosophy (which I’m really excited about), followed by an hour and a half of Bib Trad, which is just going to be super boring.  Mag. Aussermair, the theology professor just talks very softly in a monotone voice.  She even has to use a microphone so we can hear her more clearly.  I think she is a very smart person, it’s just that there is a big language barrier between us and her, more so than any of the other professors.  I have two german teachers, Rene on Mondays for conversation and ösd and then Feldner for conversation/grammar.  Neither of them are a good as Dr.Mclarry.  Our whole class just misses us so much; she was such a great professor.  But oh well, we’ll see how it goes with these two.  My philosophy professor is Alexander.  He seems like such a chill person.  I don’t think I would like philosophy as much if I had bad teachers. 

(9/14/2010) We had the second day of classes.  On Tuesday’s I have german with Feldner.  Then Fine Arts with Frau Dr. Loos. Followed by music and then after dinner I have English, both classes with Gundi.  Frau Loos and Gundi are the sweetest people ever.  Frau Loos knows so much about art.  She could literally look at any piece of art and tell you about its whole background.  She used to be the curator at her own museum so she’s pretty legit.  I have Gundi for both music and English; even those two classes aren’t my favorite subjects, she is definitely the best teacher I’ve ever had.  Gundi is like a sweet old grandma, she’s just so cute and funny.  She gives us life advice in class.  She’s also just really enthusiastic about both subjects.  Today in music we watched a video about the crown singers (or something like that) and we listened to a lot of other music pieces.  For English I can tell we are going to have to read a lot of books, but I’m actually excited to read them.  Everything we get to learn about in music, art, and English is right here in Europe; I can just go see all the pieces of art of places of literature that I study.