Unfortunately it looks like it's going to be quite a boring weekend - I have a huge long list of things to do, from reading theories of humour to writing about eighteenth-century satire to answering 50 questions about the Chinese revolution. It's been a similarly busy week, and it feels like all I'm trying to do is make it even busier: I'm working and volunteering for the Kalamalama (which includes going to extra classes for no credit - good experience though), have applied for a job as Junior Editor of the HPU magazine, and will be finding out about potential other positions on Monday (they're all 'Federal Work Study' and I'm not sure if we're allowed to apply for those as study abroad students). If we are, though, Tom might be able to work as a theatre assistant, which would be interesting for him!
Hopefully we'll be going to the Byoudo-in temple for sunset today, although that remains to be seen. If so, I shall take tons of pictures and put them up. It's meant to be extremely tranquil and full of life-changing serenity at sunset, which would be useful after the stresses of just the second week of classes!
In my Revolutions class (during the last class of which my teacher wore a beaver hat and claimed that Viagra represented everything that is wrong with capitalism), there are prizes for the 3 best term papers. I'll be doing mine on the different attitudes of Western media and Iranian underground media concerning Iranian counterrevolutionaries, I think, which will link to another paper I'm doing in an English class on Reading Lolita in Tehran. And we might be going to the Irish bar this week to see what it's like.
Laundry time!
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