Diana. plus more

My kinesiology class was canceled today so I began walking all the way back to the other side of campus where my car was located. It was starting to rain pretty hard so I began to walk briskly and so did everyone else (I walk quickly regardless, lol, but today everyone else did too).

Anyway, I had to pause every couple of steps and take off my glasses and wipe them down with my shirt because the water droplets would cover the lense— it made me feel kinda nerdy, haha, oh well. Water droplets and constantly having to wipe down is definitely one of the negatives of deciding to wear glasses instead of contacts to school when it’s raining. I have to remember to keep that in mind.

Well, I was walking down the path near the Education building and I saw this lady holding hands with a little girl and they were walking quickly towards my direction. The lady was gently pulling the little girl along and the little girl had the biggest smile as she was almost jogging to keep up with her mom’s (?)quick pace. (The little girl seemed so happy. I guess she must like the rain or maybe she was excited about wherever she was headed to…or maybe she’s just a very happy and excited child). It was funny because from a distance I could see that the little girl was waving her free hand to nobody the whole time as she jogged forward. So once they got closer to me I decided I would smile and wave back to the little girl (I figured someone should wave back to her eventually :p) When I did so, she got the cutest and biggest smile. It was so sweet and she kept on telling her mom, “She waved back! She waved back!” :) It kinda made my day. Little things like that make me happy…

Little kids are awesome. I always see them on my way back to my car since I park near  the Education building and they have some sort of preschool program there. So there’s always random little kids inside or outside the building getting dropped off or picked up.

I would have to say it went well. My first class (Psych 169-Psychological Aspects of Physical Disability) started at 12:30pm, woot woot.

I got there about 5 minutes before class started so I noticed a lot of the seats were already taken. However, this wasn’t a problem since I like sitting near the front anyway and it looked like there were quite a few empty seats up there. As I was walking forward I recognized a girl from my previous classes so I sat right next to her in the front row. I don’t usually sit next to people even if I know them, however, she’s really nice and isn’t overly chatty (we’re both kinda shy, she’s more so), and we get along really well so I plopped down next to her and asked her about her break. :)

Also, my seat ended up being right in front of the professor’s podium…like literally a foot or less away from me. At first, I was thinking, “uh oh, this might not be a good idea.” However, when he got up to it before the class started he began to randomly talk about his desktop background with Maddy and I and to tell us about the biggest pool in Singapore. He seemed really nice, so after that I didn’t mind that I was right in front of him. It also gave me a good opportunity to stare at him. I liked looking at the character of the crows feet on his eyes. He was wearing an interesting dress shirt too. It had light pink and white stripes and the cuffs and collar were a white and blue paisley design (I’m kinda surprised I know the term for that). Then he had this necklace of a clear crystally star.It looked just like the one below. I kept wondering if it had any sort of significance since it didn’t seem like something I would see on a man his age.

Anyway, I’m glad I sat in the front because he doesn’t have the most vociferous voice and it’s a really big lecture room so I think it’s great that I’m sitting this close to him, it means I won’t miss anything.

Then after the class had started and he went over the syllabus and all of that he began to do roll call. Except, he didn’t just do roll call…he had us say our major, our hometown, our birth month, and ask him a question when he called our names. In addition, he didn’t go in order so you had to be paying really good attention to not only your name being called but to what questions people had already asked so you didn’t repeat them (there were a couple of people who asked things he had already answered…lamesauce).

Sidenote: In this class we will be getting daily quotes which relate to the lecture. Today’s quote was: “To worry about what you don’t have, is to waste what you do have.” -Ken Keyes

Then I went home after the class was over because my next class wouldn’t be starting until 3:20 and I knew I wouldn’t have any difficulty finding a seat since it was my Honors 101 class. There always seems to be more than enough seats in my honors classes since they’re designed to be smaller so that we get individual attention or something of that sort. Also, the honors classes always tend to be in the same building and usually in the same room with the same people so there was no reason for me to try and arrive early because I knew where I would be going and who the people in my class would be.

So when I got there it was really interesting because every seat seemed to be taken except for the front row…I mean every single seat  of the front row was empty. Which was funny to me because I’ve noticed that people in the Honors college tend to try and sit away from the front. That’s weird to me. Well, I didn’t care if no one else was sitting in the front because I love sitting in the front so I went right up to the corner front seat and sat down. I did feel a bit awkward since it’s the first time no one else was sitting up at the front. But this class went well too…and we’re going to get to watch a lot of films :D Also, there’s two professors teaching the class at the same time, so that should be entertaining.