Natation!

Today I swam for the first time with a team! It was so fun, it felt SO good to get back in the water, and it was like a game figuring out what the different strokes and drills and sets were. The pool is really beautiful, nicer than any pool I've swum in (haven't swum in Grinnell's new pool yet... can't wait!) but there are no flags to indicate where the wall is and the roof tiles kind of wrap around in an artsy way so i keep running into the lane line. But overall it was an awesome practice and I'm thrilled that it worked out this way. After that my friend Kelsey-Kei and I walked over to the Université where we had our Developmental Psychology class. It was a gigantic lecture hall with about 200 students and a professor who mumbles really slowly most the time and occassionally speeds up a lot to finish her phrase. It was really hard to understand her alone, but the white noise of all the students whispering to each other, shuffling papers, zipping backpacks, etc. made it even harder. I think I'm gonna stick with the course, but it's definitely gonna be a challenge. I had a little help this class cause there was a girl in front of me taking notes on her computer so it was almost like i had subtitles for what was being said, but the girl left during the break after an hour so I didn't have her as an aid for the second hour and took much fewer/less comprehensive notes. I think most of the important stuff is written in the powerpoint slides the professor puts up every so often, but I'm sure I'm missing a lot in between the vague bullets. As for IES classes, I still have two first days to go, but so far they are shaping up to be alright. I'm not that excited about the two I've been to already, because grammar is grammar and I'm not a hug fan/great student of history. I'm thinking I'll love the Contemporary French Society class and the Art and Architecture class though, and I absolutely adore swimming, so it's three for three.