{Term 2 = over}

Hi!

So, as of today 12:50 p.m. EST term two, for me, is over. I have spend nine weeks, 16 hours per week in a classroom and double those hours eating, partying and just chilling with friends.

The core classes this term, were kind of fun, though my electives were more fun. I'll just quickly list the classes I took this term(5 core classes, 3 electives), the amount of hours per week, and my thoughts about the classes.
- Academic writing & grammar(3 hours/week)
This subject was more writing than grammar(thank God), and it was actually kind of fun. Every week we wrote and handed in one essay, and each different week, we wrote a different kind of essay. I have written persuasive, comparative, narrative and cause and effect essays, a personal commentary, a fictional story and lots more. We took one hour per week to explain the kind of essay we were writing and to brainstorm and do some pre-writing. One hour per week for actually writing the essay, and one for revising and handing in the essay.
- Reading(2 hours/week)
I did not enjoy reading at all. Maybe it was the book, maybe the teacher, maybe just me, or a mix of all three. We were reading 1984, a dystopian novel by George Orwell, but as usual with reading books in school: I did not read it. I did however read the first 25 pages, a summary from sparknotes and passed the subject.
- College survival(2 hours/week)
In this class we had a book called "Ethics and college student life" which you should definitely buy! Haha, no not really. The book has some case studies, which we discussed in class, and that was fun. We also kept a journal and wrote twice a week about each topic we talked about in class: sex, drugs and rock 'n roll :)
- Application workshop(1 hour/week)
Instead of the 2 hours in the first term, we only had 1 hour of application workshop this term, and we'll have none next term :( But thank God, Megan is teaching a literature class next term(for which I signed up), so hopefully I'll still have classes with her. As for the subject, it was fun and helpful, just like last term.
- Biology Elective(2 hours/week)
This was a class that I actually hadn't chosen, but I changed into it, since it fitted my schedule best. I am not crazy about biology, but it was fun. I especially enjoyed the last class in which we had a "science fair" where we had to do some experiments in front of our "celeb judges" :)
- Journalism Elective(2 hours/week)
For journalism we wrote 1 article per week, from interviews, to personal commentaries to eyewitness reports. We have published 3 UP times in those 9 weeks, filled with the articles we wrote. I doubt anyone read them, but it was a fun class to do.
- Economics Elective(2 hours/week)
In economics class we mostly revised thing I already knew, but had forgotten over the years. We first did macro economics, then micro. You either love economics or not, so for those who didn't it wasn't all that great, but I loved it. The midterm and the final were thought, but it was a good preparation for university level studies.

Well, overall a positive outcome for my second term at EF New York, following the University Preparation program. Now I have two weeks spring break and I'll be traveling along the east coast and blogging about it, so follow me pls :) As to school, on the 28th of March, term 3 starts, so another 10 weeks of UP and then, on June 7th, I am flying home.

Time flies, but I really am enjoying it.

Loves!

P.S. The pic was taken in D'Espresso, a café on 42nd street, between Park and Madison :)

{University of Chicago}

Hi!

So here's part 2 of my posts on the universities I applied to. Today I'm gonna talk about the University of Chicago. As the name implies, it is located in Chicago, Illinois. It has an urban campus of 211 acres, and has around 5.000 undergraduate and 10.000 graduate students.

The University of Chicago was established in 1890 by the American Baptist Education Society, with a donation from John D. Rockefeller. The first classes were held in 1892. The university has more than 2.200 faculty members, and 85 Nobel prize winners are affiliated with UChicago, of which 8 are current staff members.

And, again, I haven't been to the University of Chicago, but I have been to Chicago. Eh, 4 years ago. They call it the windy city, and they are right. It is cold and windy, but it's also a beautiful city, with subways above the streets and, as I remember, a huge bookstore :)

For more info: http://www.uchicago.edu/

That's all for now,

talk to you later!

{Last week of the term}

Hi!

So my birthday has come and gone, and I got some more wrinkles :P

No, not really. My birthday was fun. I had Birthday songs is five different languages, one brownie and two birthday cakes, a singing card form my sister Mariska(thanks for that one, it's hilarious) and loads and loads of happy birthday messages :D

Then this weekend I went o manhattan with Jenny, Kadda and Regina :) We went to a café on 42nd street that looks like a library. Then we took the subway down to Battery Park, then to Brooklyn, where I bought two dresses in a vintage store(I'll upload pics later). After that we went back to Fifth avenue and back to T-town.

Loves!

{Twenty. Tomorrow.}

Hiya!

For those of you who didn't know: tomorrow I am entering my twenties, so here's my last post as a nineteen year old :(

I haven't blogged very consistenly, but I have blogged, I think, quite a lot this past year, and I am hoping to increase it the next.

So, bye bye teens and hello twenties! It's kinda weird, but also cool.

xx

{Spring break plans!}

Hi!

So, in just two short weeks the famed spring break starts! For those of us staying for a semester, it is goodbye :( But for those of us who, like me, are staying until June, it means: Hello Miami, Orlando or Cancun(Mexico).

But as I have higher goals in life, ahem, I am not going to either one of these three. No, together with my friend David we are traveling south along the east coast and a little to the west.

Logically we start in New York[A]. We here take a bus to Boston[B], then to Philadelphia[C], to Washington D.C.[D], then to Charlotte[E]. Then from Charlotte we take the train to Atlanta[F] and then the bus back to New York[G], home sweet home.

The whole trip is planned for a total of 10 days and, according to google maps, is 2,196 miles(3,534 km) long. As we are taking the bus and walking around a lot we are planning on buying mid size backpacks to hold our stuff :) So, my first backpacking trip!

As my laptop is very susceptible for theft(not), I am planning on taking it with me and blogging throughout the trip.

That is it for now, I'll post a detailed travel schedule before we leave, and as always:

xx

{As promised - the picture with Alexis}

Hi!

Okay, so I promised a picture of me and Alexis Bledel, and then I realized that I didn't have the picture! So after stalking my friend Kadda, I have it now, and here it is!

Talk to you soon!

xx

{UP-date}

Hi!

I know I haven't updated for almost a month, and after a long, begging e-mail from my cousin I decided to write again.Here comes.

First and foremost, I have dyed my hair into a red-brown colour. So cool. You can see it in the picture above: redhead @ NYC.

Now, to the less important stuff. I have had midterms, a week or so ago, so I studied hard and aced them :) Well, most of them at least.

Then, I went to an off-Broadway play called: Love, loss and what I wore, which was great. We paid $ 25,- for the tickets, instead of $ 80,-, since we went there in the morning and picked them up :) One of the actors in the play was Alexis Bledel(from Gilmore Girls/The sisterhood of the traveling pants), and I got her autograph and a picture :D Ow, and one of our fellow play-admirers was Denzel Washington, btw.
[Pictures are coming up]

More exciting news coming up in my next post, and more regular updates are a promise!

xx