Tuesday

I can't believe that it's already my third week of classes here at Harper! I still have some hiccups in my schedule that I'm trying to work out, so this week I'm still going to new classes that I haven't yet been to.  Maybe in seven weeks when term is over I'll finally have it straightened out!  In the 'set-in-stone' classes, most of my professors have already given me my big assignment that will be due near the end of term.  One of said assignments is a 2,000 word essay which got a 'This-is-the-type-of-assignment-I'm-used-to-doing-on-a-weekly-basis-at-Cornell' response when it was assigned.
Today's ventures brought me to the other side of campus, a solid twenty minute walk with a road crossing involved (gasp!). Apparently there's a shorter way to get there that I have yet to discover as I added visitors to my return journey across campus--visitors who decided we should take the same way back to campus as I took getting to class (where's the adventure in that?)  They were very nice girls (which made me quickly forget the familiarity of the walk I was making), one of whom was from Ireland (love the accent) and is itsy bitsy and plays rugby.  The other was adorable, and English through and through.  My class was in a building that looked like a garage from the side I approached, and I was scared that maybe I was approaching the wrong building. There was a large shop door and only a plywood door to enter into on the side I approached.  Some innocent bystanders told me otherwise and that I needed to go 'round the back.  The back looked more like where I was supposed to be, but still did not have a classroom feel.  The classroom I entered felt more like the entrance way of a house.  The whole back side of the classroom was glass and the classroom was small, which made for good discussion in class. I hadn't yet been to that class, Psychology of Food Choice, in case you couldn't tell by my quandaries about how to get to/into the building. It was good. That's all I have to say about that.
Crossing roads here is a tricky business. Cars drive on the wrong side of the road. Go figure that one out.