Minnesota

Hello from Minnesota! Due to popular request I'm revitalizing the blog - though I can't promise that I'll be writing daily or even weekly, just as my schedule permits.

It's been quite some time since I last posted here and while I'd really planned to blog last summer from Ghana that didn't go as planned (dial-up internet is not all that compatible with modern web design). But here I am, in Minnesota fresh off quitting my real job and currently working on the core courses part of my graduate program at MSUM.

I arrived in Minnesota on Saturday, January 9th after three wonderful days of driving. Originally the plan was to drive out in two days but then snow hit and well there is no denying mother nature the power to make snow. I made a planned stop in Normal, Illinois along the way where I spent a night with my friend Alex from I4K 1.0 catching up on everything that's happened over the past two years while refreshing many I4K memories. I still miss I4k oh so much!

My first day of class was the 11th of January. I'm taking four classes this semester - which is apparently a lot from the reaction I get when I say I'm taking four classes. One of the classes is an online/occasional Saturday class so I really haven't gotten a true taste of it just yet but I can honestly say that I like the other three classes a lot! I have a lot of reading to do which can be time consuming but other than that the work isn't that bad at all. I don't know a whole lot of people yet but the people in my major seem like a pretty cool group.

The weather hasn't been too bad thus far and has actually been above average temperature wise since I arrived something I will not complain about. There is still quite a bit of snow on the ground but we're suppose to get a rain/snow mix this weekend so that could make things interesting. I went to the grocery store today so I should be good to stay inside and spend the next three days doing homework. 150 days until summer!

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“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.”

~Ernest Hemingway