My host family for staging is with one of my closest friends from last semester, Tara Lunquist. (i'm sure I wrote about her quite a bit) and her mom Vicki and Dad Kurt and two crazy dogs, Summer and Hollee.
Hollee & Summer
Tara and I got our awesome Cast A sweatpants!
I arrived on July 6 for a second semester of the study abroad program. It is such a different group from last semester! This time we represent 5 countries (Bermuda, Switzerland, Sweden, China & USA) which brings for a pretty diverse group! We also have the first staff member to be taking the courses as a student, so that's new as well! The first week we dove into our new classes, Interpersonal Conflict and Principles of Managment. There is also an Interpersonal Communications class, but since Misa (WI) and I took it last semester, we are doing an independent study in Small Group Communications. All the courses are a great addition to the ones we took last semester. Pete and Theresa, our professors, were both there for the first week. And even though we had a lot of material to cover, we still had some fun along the way!
We had our own CI at the Food Bank of the Rockies, it was a ton of fun!
Some days are crazier than others
Regional learning at Chautauqua Park in Boulder, then we went to Celestial Seasonings factory
Group L to R: Tone(Sweden), Misa(WI), Katelyn(SD),Juliana(Bermuda), Shelby(WY), Moon(China), Lukas(Switz.), Me, Helen(SD), Julia(Sweden) (Not pictured: Paul(SD) )
Pete used an unconventional way of teaching about Management by having us watch Miracle on 34th St with the setting authentic as well
(Paul and our professor Pete on the end)
Arrival day of the whole cast and we are so excited!
(Nicole on far Left, our staff leader for the semester!)
Arrival day was something else! I remembered back to the first arrival last semester to try and prepare, but I couldn't! I met so many people in one day that i had a headache by the end of it! But it still made me so excited for the new semester!
For host family day we went over to Tara's best friend's house for a BBQ. They are hosting 2 boys, Caleb (AZ) who traveled last semester and Bert from Belgium. There was also another family over who had Bri from Maine and Anniken from Norway. The neighbors of the Lundquist's are hosting 2 staff, Sanne (Belgium) and Darlene (MD) and NK from South Africa. NK came with us as well to the BBQ. The day had kind of awkward moments, but when we started playing games like corn hole (bean bag toss) or Apples to Apples, things got more relaxed. I'm really excited to be so close to so many uppies!
YAY. You're back on the blog again. Thanks for posting, and the pics now make more sense! Miss you.
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