Thursday Throw outs

My Week and Interesting Things I've Been Up To



Well its Thursday,I love Thursdays. Not only is it the hardest day of school but its also the day before Friday, the best day of the week. This week was the start of exams, where everyone is freaking out for the tests they have to take and people are studying like mad. The two exams I have this week are Physics and Biology. I had Physics today and I think I did well ;although, it was quite difficult. I'm not going to worry though because I'm here to learn Spanish and not what the time is after an object is projected horizontally from a height with a certain velocity. I don't think I have a chance with the biology exam though. Biology here is like AP Bio in the states but everythings in Spanish. Even though I love biology I don't want to spend to much time focused on school, Physics and Math take up about 3 hours of my day. School is one of the main reasons I'm here but I don't expect to pass all my classes.

As some of you may know, I absolutely love the brain. I've been into for awhile and I even have a textbook on it (in English of course). So last week during Biology and Psychology I study this wonderful and intricate organ. During one of my classes of Psych I was reading through the spinal nerves and regions and the teacher asked me what I was reading. And it went like this(translated)...

Profe - "Charles what are you reading."

Me - "Oh, just information on the nerves in the spine"

Profe - "Hmm, why don't you wait till the next chapter( about the brain) and teach the class about these nerves and the brain"

 

Class - Trololololololololo

Me - "Umm, Ok?"


Now if you can imagine this you would know exactly how nervous and embarassed I was. And the teacher was serious to. He brought up this topic of me teaching the class again this week and even talked to my Mom about it. The best part though is that I actually want to do it. I would like to teach when I'm older, perferably at Univerisity, and I want to teach this topic to a class. The only problem is that I don't know how to explain the brain that well in English let alone another language. I think I'm just going to ask him if i can teach in English and he's understandable so I think he'll let me. I'm a bit anxious and nervous but also extremely excited for that day, the day where I teach a class.

I've picked up a few interesting hobbies since I have arrived: a little bit of chess, working out and running, and drawing. Chess just came recently but I'm really enjoying it. Ajdrez (chess) is very easy to learn how to play but extremely difficult to learn how to play well. This amazing game looks so sinple but it is as complicated as the brain or even more so. To be decent you need to be able to read the board, to be good you need to be able to read the bored and predict 4-5 moves ahead of whats actually going on, and to be one of the best you need time. Loads and loads of time. I love playing and its a great brain excercising game as well. I've also started working with weights at a gym. I started as soon as I could and every Mon. Wed. and Fri I've been in and out. Not only is it good for my body but its also a great way to think and pensivate about life. I usually work out for an hour then meditate for 5-10 minutes. I'm loving it as well because it helps me think and I'm gaining strength as a bonus. Drawing is my absolute favorite. I started as soon as I arrived. Since then I practiced shading shapes, continued drawing abstract, and I'm now practicing the face. Its a funny story how I started practicing the face. I was in school one day drawing spheres during break and one of my classmates came up to me and said:

"Oh, you draw. Can you draw me?"
"Oh, no. I can't. I don't have enough practice."
"Come on. Draw me."
"No seriously I can't. I just started drawing speheres. Maybe in a couple months after I practice"
"Ok, How about after winter break?"
"Umm, Ok. In 4 months Ill draw you."

Its been a month and I just fiinished a drawing a picture from a photo I had and its not to bad but man I can't wait for Janurary. I've only truly drawn 2 faces the first was of me from a photo I took here, and the other was a picture of her from last week at a riot/protest(supah long story). The difference between the two are amazing. I definitely beilieve that if I practice a little more everday my future portrait will look decent. The only problem is that this drawing from the photo took about an hour and a half, my classmate wants me to draw her face to face. Thats what I really need practice on, live portrait drawing. Maybe next month. XD

 

Hope you enjoyed this post. I'll see you next week, on my Topic Tuesday post.
-Derin Charles Uras