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Happy February! 
Another semester, another blog post. Here goes:
My classes this semester are cool so far, though definitely more work intensive. I’m taking voice lessons, still, which are always a good time. 
Sustainable Landscapes, which is more landscape architecture oriented so far than I expected, but has been fascinating. I have to take water samples later today so that we can find out exactly how polluted campus water is. Cool. 
Native American Women, which has been a throwback to my elementary days when I wished I was Native American. It’s incredibly fascinating, sometimes hopeful and sometimes, probably more often, very depressing. But a good class.  
Sources of World Drama, we’re currently in Romanticism. We just read Victor Hugo’s “Hernani”. The first half is great, the heroine is combative and active in deciding her fate, which is refreshing. Then in the second half she randomly decides to become a whiny, helpless damsel in distress. It’s unfortunate.
And The Actor’s Craft, which has been fantastic. We play theater games and do crazy exercises. 
Extracurriculars have been just as wonderful. 
I’m still a starting sabre fencer. I won two bouts at our last tournament, which is quite good for me! However, I just found out that if we don’t recruit any new sabre fencers, I’m going to be our A strip fencer when my friend Julie goes abroad next semester. AH!!!! Not cool. 
I auditioned for the Drama department again and got into Metamorphoses. It’s the show I really wanted to get into and I’m looking forward to it very much! The callback was one of the most incredible and hilarious things I’ve ever done: me and two other girls had to act out a sacrifice without words. We got about 8 minutes to plan it and then we performed it. We chose to do a human sacrifice and we really went all-out. Fantastic. 
The biggest news, however, is that I just got my application approved to go abroad next year! New Zealand, here I come!!!!!!