Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Waste of time . . . or is it?

A silly, stupid, pointless, and money-hoarding requirement of LSA at Umich is that we must have a four semester proficiency in a foreign language. I have heard of no other school requiring anything of the sort, but naturally, ours does so that they may get more money to pay RichRod to stick around.

Instead of continuing in my spanish "career," of which never really started, I decided instead to embark on a mission of learning Italian. I've always wanted to go to Italy and language is supposed to just, stay in your head for ever . . . so why not. I wasn't planning on going there anytime soon.
Now that I think about it, now is the best time for me to go. I have no commitments other than school or a job or classes and it will always look good that I studied in a foreign country. I'm not talking a semester or anything, just a short session, about a month long, in Rome, preferably.
And as I search online for something, I find there is so much to do in fashion and I am half tempted to sign up for one of those classes, the only problem being, I am afraid I wouldn't come back, or that if I did, I would go back to Michigan and would instead go out west and try to start something.

Silly, yes. Irrational, yes. You only live once though right?

Of course, I am all talk and no action in these sorts of things, well, in most everything in all honesty. So instead I will probably take a drawing class, or history class, or just Italian language class.
I wouldn't be able to go this summer, maybe next summer. And I would definitely consider it after I graduate UMich since I'll be taking a semester off . . . I am sort of thinking of taking a year off and doing some traveling, just sort of living by the seat of my pants. Everyone's got to do it sometime.

Perhaps I am just tired right now and rambling and thoughts are jumbled. Well I know all of that listed above is a fact, but I would really like to go to Italy asap.

I don't think my mother would be too crazy about letting me go to a foreign country on my own . . . or my boyfriend.

ehh, it's still in the works though.
Just something I'd like to check off "The List"

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