Start of Winter semester

Hey everyone,
I thought I should get this post out before things get too hectic. The new semester has begun! We are excited to keep school going but I can't say I won't be looking forward to springtime. It has been FREEZING here!!! I hear people back in Washington complain about 30 degree whether and right now, that would be downright balmy here in Utah. It has lately been having highs in the teens and has been getting to negatives for the lows. Doesn't make it very fun to walk to campus from the Marriot center parking lot. I am looking forward to having blue skies and not wearing five layers. But that will come later.

Anyways, school will definitely be just as stressful as last semester. I am taking TMA 201 (the second half of theatre history because I took the first half fall semester), Personality, Psychology of Gender, Intro to Social Work, and a beginning piano class. TMA is still not exactly my favorite class but at least it is the same teacher and class structure as last semester so that should make it better. Personality will be...enlightening? I'm not sure of word for it (or maybe just a positive one). It is basically an intense theory course (with bits of philosophy thrown in there). The readings are long and difficult and the whole time I wonder how someone could think so much about something. We'll have to see how that one goes. Psychology of gender has so far been quite interesting and fun. The professor is quite entertaining having grown up in Japan and giving her thoughts on American gender stereotypes. I will have to do (yet again) a group research project for that class. I'm getting pretty sick of those. As for Intro to Social Work, I am excited for because it will help prepare me for the field and getting my Master's in Social Work. For this class, I will be needing to volunteer again. I am thinking of continuing to work in the Children's Unit at the Utah State Hospital since I enjoyed it so much. Hopefully this time I can work a little more with the social workers there. And lastly, my piano class has been pretty easy since they are learning how to read music which I already know how to do. I'm sure it will get more difficult but I look forward to eventually being able to play some hymns :) I will be continuing to work in both the Lab and as a secretary. All in all, a very busy semester.

Adam will also be very busy this semester. He is taking the online D&C course that I took last semester which is giving him a great scripture study guide. He is also taking two history courses, England since 1689 and US history 1890-1945. Both are challenging but he loves history so it makes it good. He is also continuing Spanish which he absolutely hates but on the bright side, he only has one more class after this one! His last class is a capstone class about European Gothicism which I am excited about because he gets to read Northanger Abbey! He is still working as a TA for the online course of Humanities 202 and he actually gets to work in the lab as well which he is very happy about. He will probably give more of his thoughts on this semester in further posts.

Well that's all for now!
<3 Ashley
P.S. We are still working in the temple for this semester :)