Finals and Concerts

October 15, 2007 at 2:42 pm · Filed under GIAL, Life

Today will mark the completion of my third session at GIAL. In just a few hours, using my extremely limited Russian vocabulary, I will attempt to survive a 10-minute simulation of navigating (buying tickets, asking for directions, following maps, etc.) the Moscow Metro for my Second Language and Culture Acquisition final. I’m pretty sure I have the words for “stick,” “knife,” and “apple” down, so I’m hoping the Metro runs on fruit and pointy things.

After that, I’ll be done with all my finals! And after that, I shall sleep in tomorrow because there are no classes.

Session four starts up on Wednesday and includes such delights as Field Methods, Field Data Management, and Cultural Anthropology. This session is twice as long as the others and will run through the end of my time at GIAL in mid-December. I’m particularly looking forward to Field Data Management because they’ll be teaching is how to use Language Explorer, the program I wrote code for last summer.

I seem to be going to a lot of concerts lately. I’ve been to two DSO performances at the Meyerson, the season premiere of the Longview Symphony in the shiny and enormous new chapel at LETU, and a Muse concert at the Nokia Theatre. They were all extremely awesome and made even awesomer by the cool people I got to be with at the concerts. I guess this is one of the advantages of living in a larger city.

And I seem to be fully addicted to them now because I’ll be going to two more next month. Spoon on Nov. 2, and The Polyphonic Spree (Whee!) on Nov. 6. You should totally come and rock out with me. Just buy pit tickets and we can meet up and enjoy the sonic splendor together.

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