Classes

So it's Tuesday and that means woman's studies and Modern Indian Art. My two favorite classes, especially since woman's studies actually met today! Ok time out, why do you spell especially with an s? i always spell it with an x which i decided is how it should be spelled. time in so woman studies rocks my sock she pretty much told us today we are going to study a little of all indian women culture and its history and focus on things we decide are interesting, she'd rather not make us learn about things that bore us. plus she doesnt believe in tests so instead we are going to each have 2 power point presentations, on one of the topics that interest us, and a paper. i think i can manage that ha! I like the power point presentations since there are only 5 of us in the class its really just us teaching us each other what we know, which is my favorite way to learn, I don't like to read it cuz it takes forever and i have to re-read a lot and lectures get boring but conversations give you the knowledge you are actually going to remember because you are interacting with the information....more teachers should teach like that, a lot of us would get so much more out of it.

My modern indian art class is kinda the same. she lectures a bit more and likes essay tests (which i like cuz even if you don't know the exact thought you can tell them what you do know and get some points) but she uses pictures to talk about what she's teaching (good thing since we are talking about art) but she also has us teach ourselves what to see in the paintings. like today we were looking at portraits and she showed us three very different styles and had us tell her what we thought the stories for each were...and we actually got really close to the actual stories based on colors and small cues in posture and other objects. Mind you half the time i feel like im the only student responding to her questions but that's ok im learning more then the kids chillin thinkin someone else will answer, and i believe the point of having classes is to learn. She is also a teacher in the US ever other semester so her class is....STRUCTURED!!!! she just got back to india from last semester in the states and it's lovely, she articulates her words so we know what shes saying and she gives us a study guide of what she's going to talk about that day. its so wonderful.
so needless to say my tuesdays and thursdays are really nice and my classes are enjoyable.
now monday and wedensdays are well monday and wednesdays. kuchipudi dance is frustration...i cant move my hips and im not good at keeping them still apparently since im always getting yelled at for moving my weight back and forth, im not the only one the girl who studied in africa does it too and so does the latino chick so i dont feel so bad. but monday we did this move that we jump on our toes and lets just say my joints hurt in my legs from doing it. and my feet are very unhappy about me stomping on them soo much.
and my afternoon class migration and diaspora is a joke. its the only class that only fills that time frame and doesn't clash with any of my other classes. the other day we were learning about african diaspora and i felt like i was in second grade history learning about the triangle slave trade...why did we spend time on that? and we talk about the US a lot in that class. i mean i get that there are a lot of different people in the us but im not in that class to learn about the us! he said in a few days we are gonna focus more on indian diaspora but i have a feeling that will be a joke too. hes kind of hard to understand some days too. he was trying to explain the test which is an essay test and i was so lost...it was good the other 6 sip students understood cuz i was havin a hard time understanding him that day.

other then that i dont know much nothings really going on around here. telangana protesters were told to keep the protests peaceful the other day by the police (i read it in the paper when i stole mr.das's chair (he's the guy who runs our building)) but other then that nothings happening with that as far as i know. started reading my sister's keeper, its sad but i like the way the author writes the story from different characters points of view in each chapter. it builds characters well and you see things that other characters might not point out, kinda cool.