September 1-3

So I decided to lump a few days together here, because I really did the same thing all three days. We started classes! (yay...?) It was kind of weird starting class on Labor Day, but since it isn't here, there you go. I guess we will have a couple Bank Holidays to make up for it. I am taking 15 credits, which is actually more than I originally planned on taking, but it will be interesting. I can't remember what I have actually said about my classes, so I will go through them all.

On Monday, I start off with Marketing: Consumer Behavior from 8:10-9:50. That is basically looking at specific groups of consumers and how marketers target them, and how they react and purchase. It is taught by a UWRF professor named Stacey Vollmers. She is really nice, and seems to be a really thourough teacher. After that, I have a break until 14:00. Then I have Scottish Globalization until 17:00. Three hours! That is a course about Scottish Culture and influence and is taught by Gerry Mooney, a professor and leading staff member at the OU or Open University in the UK, which is pretty much an online univerisity that mostly the British Armed Forces use, as well as UK citizens that are throughout Europe and the world. (They go to University for free in the UK, so even if the citizens aren't here, they want to go to a Scottish school). He is a really funny, nice guy. It is a long class, but he has brough us presents everyday so far and is really entertaining. The first day he gave us shortbread biscuits, and posters of the Celtic Football Club, of which he is an avid fan.

Tuesday I have Marketing: Principles of at 10:20-noon. That is also with Stacey. It is an intro course, and you usually have to take it first, but UWRF made an exception for WIS students. After that, I have Literature: Science Fiction and Fantasy with Jonna Gjvere, who I think is from Stout. That is a really interesting class, and one I was not planning on taking when I came here. We look critically at lots of different Sci-Fi and Fantasy books and stories, and analyze them in class and we will write papers on them. We are reading Harry Potter right away. It should be really interesting. Jonna is a different type of professor than I am used to because I haven't taken any English-type courses except what is required, and it is much more free form than the usual business classes with lots of power point presentations. Should be good stuff, something different at the very least.

On Wednesday, I have Consumer behavior again and my other Scottish class: British History. It is taught by Dr. Miller, another Scottish professor. She teaches at the University of Edinburgh. So far that has been incredibly boring. She is going all the way back to the original conquering of Scotland, and apparently hates Braveheart. That is another long class, three hours in the evening, and we have to break for tea (tea is dinner and dinner is lunch here).

Thursday is a mirror to Tuesday.

The only other things that happened were that we had Henry Hoskins, who used to be the chef for the program before the other three schools dropped and they couldn't afford him anymore, come in and give us a hygeine training so we could help prepare food. It was like three hours long and super boring. Henry is a really neat guy though, he is a Le Cordon Bleu trained chef, and is doing a weekly cooking class for a group of us for eight weeks. He is also teaching a garnishing class and taking some people on a fly fishing trip. (I signed up for all of the above, there goes like a hundres GBP).

I also went to Kabob Mahal again. It was still delicious.