Late Thursday Post


April 16, 2015

Yesterday I woke up at 7:25 and got ready because I had a doctor's appointment at 8:50. Such an odd time for an appointment don't you think? Anyway, then I went home and watched thirty minutes of criminal minds until I had to leave for class. I grabbed lunch on campus (papa johns pizza) and then went to my first class, American History. We just had a lecture about the end of WWII basically. Then I went to Starbucks and got a Venti Iced White Chocolate Mocha before going to English. We discussed our homework about the chapter "The Man I Killed" in the novel "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien then analyzed a poem called "The Man He Killed" by Thomas Hardy. My teacher assigned us a paper due next Tuesday, comparing and contrasting the two. Next I had my two dance classes, Ballet and Modern. In Ballet we did bar work for 30 minutes and then combinations across the floor. In Modern we warmed up and practiced a lot of Cunningham techniques. After class, my mom and I left campus to go home where my dad had already made dinner (pasta) and I went to bed at 11. It was an okay day. 

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