For the semester I'll be going to SEGL in Washington D.C. I'll try my best to keep this blog up to date about how everything's going :)
Monday, August 30, 2010
1ST DAY!
So today was the first day of classes. We started the morning off by eating breakfast and then leaving the house at 8:15. It's about a 30 minute commute to school. We got to the school and had morning meeting and talked about news and current events. We then had our 1st ethics and leadership class where we did a simulation using skittles. It was pretty cool. We also talked about different theories on ethics from philosophers like Aristotle. I enjoyed that alot and realized that I believe in virtue ethics alot. We had our regular classes and I love my teachers! They are awesome! My spanish and math teacher is the same person! She's from Cuba and was in the Peace Core for a few years, she's super nice and smart! My history teacher is awesome too, he helped write the AP Comparative Government and Politics class for the college board and did alot of other cool things. Our history class is structured completely differently from any other class I've ever had. Everyone has different textbooks, which he says makes it interesting, and we discuss what we read and talk about the differences between what we read. He doesn't do alot of lecturing (yet), we do most of the talking :). My chemistry class only has 4 people and the teacher's great, he's funny and really knows what he's talking about. And of course Noah the founder is amazing and so inspirational. All of my classes are super small, the smallest has 4 kids (including me) and the biggest has 8 kids. I like this so much because it's not as overwhelming with less people and we can go quicker. We then had to exercise...ya....exercise. We jogged to a local park and played capture the flag which was pretty fun. Then we came home and ate dinner and did homework. I had a decent amount of homework but it wasn't too bad. And now here I am, writing this blog. I'd say today was good :)
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Jordan, Weeze sent me the link to your blog. I'm so glad you are writing this. I support you 100% and am proud of you to have been accepted into this outstanding program. I know you will keep your eyes open and have an amazing experience filled with lots of learning and fun. Yahoo! Love, Susan
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