Second Semester Blues (Hyar, hyar, hyar, hyar.)

Hello, dear readers. I have been rather lax on keeping you informed on my progress in school, and for this I apologize profusely. 


I wound up with three A's and a C for the fall semester; as you can guess, the C was in my dreaded Algebra class. I'm just happy to have passed it at all and to have been set free from the land of quadratic equations and binomials. Free at last, free at last; thank God Almighty, I'm free at last.


I promptly signed up for another semester, figuring that things had to be looking up since I got past algebra.  


So for the spring semester, I enrolled in: American Indians on Film, Lakota Language I, Advanced Public Speaking, English II (yeah, I know; somehow I managed to go to school for 2-1/2 years three decades ago without ever finishing English II), and Creative Writing: Memoirs. 


The first week was a disaster. Our van was acting up and I wound up missing the entire week. The second week, my Monday class (the film class) was cancelled due to weather. It hadn't met the first week due to the MLK holiday, so tomorrow will actually be the first session for that class. 


I went to my Lakota class Tuesday night, and promptly felt like I was drowning. The syllabus said it was actually Lakota Language II, so maybe that's why. 


I did, however, learn to say the following sentence: 


Mitakuyepi Alan emaciyapelo nahan iyuha cante wasteya nape ciyuzapelo.


This means, "My name is Alan, and my relatives, I shake your hands with good feelings in my heart." Unfortunately, I can't seem to memorize it. 


At any rate, I realized that after having dialysis on Tuesday morning, it just wasn't going to work for me to have a class that stressed me out from 6-10pm that night, so I have dropped that class; I'll take it again in a later semester hen I can take it in two shorter sessions a week, in the morning or early afternoon. In the meantime, I'm keeping the book and learning as much as I can. 


My other three classes are going great. I have teachers that I like, admire and get along with very well. They're also on my Facebook, so if you read this post, hi there! 


Still need to get with my advisor to figure out what I actually need to graduate.