"Major" Decision / 22 Days to Go!!

So much crazy stuff is going on!! School is wrapping up so quickly! It's insane. Only 12 days until my last final! Woo! Of course, that also means I only have 12 days to finish everything hahaha. But I will, so no worries.

I'm updating today because I have exciting news! I've decided what to do with my languages! I don't mean completely in general, cause I want to be a teacher. That was always the plan. But no, I decided what I want to do as far as majors, and I'm going to try to double! =3 You have to apply to double major at school here, so it's going to be a LONG process. I have to work things out with both departments and make it so I don't have to take some classes twice (once from a German teacher and once from a French teacher but same material), plan student teaching, make a FULL, detailed graduation plan (as in every class I'm going to take and when I'll take it from now until my graduation), and an essay-type thing explaining why I need to double major or why I think it's so important. And that's just the stuff I have to do to even GET the double major application form!! From there I have NO idea what I'm going to have to do haha. Oh well. Not important today!

I've already talked to both the professors and they're more than willing to work with me, but they both want their respective language to be my "Primary major." Haha. It's funny. I don't know which I'll do. It won't make a difference to me, it just changes which department my information goes to? Something like that.

But I'm so happy!! This has been a fantastic decision, and I feel a BIG step in the right direction.

I'm going to be the only one out of... 40,000? students doing this. It happens with other random combinations, but almost never French/German. I'm excited =3 lol. And oh so happy!

Taking things one day at a time is really helping. And getting up early. It means I have to go to bed earlier than I generally want to, but it's good for me. Even though I'm not an easy person to wake up, once I'm awake I'm EXTREMELY productive. It's awesome! I've gone from 17 MAJOR assignments to....6? (To give you an idea, one of the "assignments" ? 50 online quizzes. Seriously, just one. Another was an entire month's worth of homework I got behind on that's due by the end of the semester. Another was a 4 page paper in French. So yeah. Not little things). It's so awesome. I feels so relaxed right now. I took the night off. Carson (my brother) and I got ice cream today and played Penuchle. I won by a LOT (since I got a VERY lucky combination. A marriage in every suit, which is automatic 80 points, so I won the game without us even playing that hand haha). I love hanging out with him. I wish we got to do it more, but we're both always so busy! But it's ok. We'll always be siblings, so no rush =)

Tonight I'm cleaning out my room (or starting to) of things I don't need anymore so I won't have as much stuff to store. It's a good feeling, getting rid of old things. I don't know why, but it's sort of relieving in a way. =)

Anyway it's almost 9:30 and I'm getting tired, so I need to work on it some more before I go to bed. I have quite a bit to do tomorrow so I need to sleep soon. If I get up early enough and get things done, then I'll get to have my afternoon/evening free. Yay! I love the weekend. It's awesome and SO refreshing. Which is exactly what I need right now.

Two days of classes left. Then reading days. Then 2 exams (a final and a post-course test in French grammar, though one isn't graded it's just for department use), German exam Monday (the 19th), French lit is Wednesday and the technology class presentation is that night. I think Mission prep is Monday evening? I forget. Again, not a big deal. And then, that Saturday, I go home! Then exactly one week later, I leave for Germany.

It's hard to believe it's coming up so fast! The week before is going to be SO helpful, especially since I'm making this 6:30am thing a habit. I'm going to be able to study so well! And before anyone else gets up (except dad haha) so I won't even miss anything while I'm home! So exciting haha =)

I'm always in-between things it feels like. I mean, I live in the moment as much as I can, but there's always something new and exciting waiting for me in the future and something to keep me going on the bad days. It's awesome.

I love my life. <3

(I'm very long-winded, aren't I? Maybe I should work on that. What can I say? I love to talk. Stories are my life. This one is anyway).

Time to get to work. Bye everyone!
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