one more miracle

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Had five lectures today, followed by karate - a tiring day! Tiring, but good!

First was Group Theory. I was terrified of this class because I thought it presumed prior knowledge of Group Theory, but it doesn't, and I really like the professor, so thumbs up on this one!

Second - Overview of Functional Groups. I was extremely skeptical going in, as the syllabus looked like, in its entirety, like it covered what I did in my first month of organic last year. And oh boy, I was right. She did Lewis structures guys. Lewis structures! And electronegativity! All in a kindergarten voice like we weren't all third year science students. What??? Definitely dropping that one, bleh.

Third - Proteins and Enzymes. I think I'm going to love this class. The lecturer is Canadian, so I actually understood him, and he's very clear and thorough. I've always been fascinated by protein structure and all that anyway. Nifty! (And THIS is why I want to be a biochemist instead of a straight chemist - proteins make me say "nifty"! *nerd*)

Fourth - Medicinal Chemistry. It was kind of a spur of the moment decision to go to this one with Judy, the other American chem student here with me, but I'm glad I did. It seems really fascinating! We didn't actually learn anything today, but we will tomorrow, and I'm quite excited. I love the teacher - she's from Spain, and very funny and sweet.

Fifth - Proteins again. It's from 2 to 3 and then 4 to 5... with the same professor. Very odd.

Sixth - KARATE! Hiyah! :D It was a lot of fun, though I bet I'll be sore tomorrow! I met a girl named Sinead who actually was in Proteins with me right before, and she was really sweet. There were altogether 5 girls there who were beginners like me, so I didn't feel like an idiot, yay! Then there were about 8 people in, you know, the white karate outfits, and about five of them were blackbelts! Crazy! I felt bad because they ended up essentially getting used as punching bags for the beginners. We had to ram them with our elbows, punch them in the chest, and kick them in the legs. Repeatedly. It was pretty hilarious, and for the most part they were great sports about it, haha. The man I had to elbow was awesome - his name was Stephen, and he was an older guy, probably mid forties, and he was just very sweet and helpful. He was very complimentary on my punches and blocks, and asked if I'd done it before, which I haven't! *proud* I really liked all of the people, and I'm definitely going to try keeping up with it. Going back on Thursday! Yay!

So all that's fine and dandy, but I'm still stressing out about courses. I don't have nearly a heavy enough load (ha, I know - they take a lot more classes here, since each class only meets once or twice a week, so you've got a lot more subjects going on at once, oh boy) to get enough credits, and it's really hard to take classes from other subjects, and I need to run around like a chicken with its head cut off tomorrow to try to figure shit out. The later it gets in the week, the more first lectures I will have missed :-/ *flail* I will figure it out! I will! *determined face*

Simon isn't coming up tomorrow, because his cousin died :( I don't know if they were close or anything, but that's terrible. On a very selfish note, I'm slightly put out because that means another week of awkward texting, meh. I just tried to ask him if we could talk some other way, like email, which is a bit more conducive to actually communicating, instead of trite little cliches. (Right after he told me why he couldnt come, he said "i really wish i could come see you cant stop thinking about you" and I was like *FACEPALM* Like you haven't said that 8 MILLION TIMES.) So now he said he'll call me and email me, which could be good or not so good. Here's hoping!