Cultural Anthropology – aka “I have no life”

So this week was for an elective course the students could take if they wanted. 19 students opted to take the Environmental Literature course. For only one week of class you get 3 credits, so it was worth sitting in class instead of taking time off. Anela, Bridget, Catherine (my roommate), and Sarah didn’t take the course so they left for a backpacking trip to the north part of the South Island. As for me, I didn’t want to take the Environmental Lit. class, because those credits wouldn’t count for anything back at Westmont. So I decided to do an independent study instead for Cultural Anthropology. I thought it was a good idea. 3 credits, one week, and then I wouldn’t have to take a sociology class when I got back to Westmont. So it was good, right?

Haha. Yeah right. That was like the hardest week of my life. Even harder than finals week I feel like. Let me give you an idea of everything I had to do in one week: I had to read a 400 pg textbook, read and study 3 research papers on anthropology, read several case studies, read a 225 pg book on Samoa (which I cheated and only read 1/3 of it), write 4 4-5 page papers, and take 3 tests. All in 6 days. Monday to Saturday. I literally read, studied, or worked on papers from the time I got up to midnight, every day. It was so exhausting. That whole week is a blur now.

I now know how much work I can actually do in one week lol. I had to push myself so hard to get all of that work done. And I’m so glad that the week is over! And that I survived hahaha. It was so hard. But I learned soo much, and I thought it was interesting. So at least I wasn’t bored the whole week.

And I’m done! Woohoo! I got 3 credits for that class. :) Definitely worked for those 3 credits. Good class, but so glad it’s over.

Leah


p.s. I'm slowly working on putting pics up for these blogs - the internet here is really slow so it takes awhile. my goal is to have them done by friday!