My first class...

Hahah, so I wasn't meaning to write two blogs in one day, but today I did a lot and figured I'd write a little bit down.

After I woke up and smelled the apt and saw the living room, I was hoping it was not an indication of how my day would turn out. I walked to the foundation building my marketing class was to be held in. Normally there are supposed to be numbers on the doors of the classrooms. I was looking for FG061... I could only find FG060- which was the women's bathroom- and I was prettttyyy positive I did not sign up for a lecture style classroom in a "toilet". So I walked around a little, opened a door, went down a little hallway and BAM, I found it, not only did I find the classroom, but an entire class already in it. Yes, I am that girl. I walked in on a class and turned right back around. It's not like I was embarrassed, I am pretty used to everything going wrong this trip so far, and I do not really know anyone enough to care yet...Honestly, I expected to do that once in my college career, figured it would go with the theme this semester I am having so far. No better time than now I guess. 

Once MY class was able to find our seats and get situated the professor walked in and opened up YouTube. I found it odd, not many teachers do that... He played ACDC's You Shook Me All Night Long music video, then he said, well that should have woken ye up...lads ;) Then he went on to tell us that in his class it is mandatory to be on time...yada yada yada...and that he expects everyone to sit in the bottom section of the theatre...he made anyone who chose to sit in the top half of the lecture hall move to the bottom section (front rows were all that were left) so that was pretty funny too. Then he explained that in his class he would like people to have questions, and since he expected us to have questions, but not ask them and talk during his class he expects us to have a twitter account. (I'm serious, its mandatory) The twitter account is so we can tweet our questions to the main screen during class so he can address them. The only problem I found with that is that we need a wireless internet connection, and there is no WiFi in the lecture hall...I told him after class, so maybe he will have that fixed by Friday. Then after explaining that he would like us to be on our smart-phones or laptops tweeting during lecture, he made it clear that he does not like texting or phone calls in class. And as you would expect it, his phone went off with a text message. Ironic. We all laughed then he kind of gave an example of marketing ideas and examples of what we would be going over in the class....here is the link he had us watch.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xwluk1jT5B0 ... Needless to say, I am pretty excited for this class, it will not be the typical lecture class I was worried about...

He told us about the group project we would be doing, we have to basically choose any entity to market- our choice-can be 'anything our hearts desire'; we are assigned to make a Facebook page promoting whatever we choose, as well as a YouTube video- Any ideas? Arnolds for Awards...Need a marketing campaign? Want to be on YouTube or Facebook? (haha...but really- I am open to ideas)

Oh yeah, he also said "so and so has a multi-million pound business selling jam..." Thought it was funny to hear him say pound instead of dollar...

He left us with this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln3RWKyUouQ and said "be imaginative"

It was then that I wanted to tweet and say, this one is more creative.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8LAvlmOUus  ...If only there was WiFi...

After class I took my first Pilates class (stepping out of my shell), I was just glad the instructor didn't call me out and point out to the class that "it was just impossible with someone of Taylor's body type to do some of these stretches" like my yoga teach so kindly pointed out my frosh year. It was actually fun, Melanie, Danielle, Meagan and I enjoyed ourselves. Then around 3pm Danielle and I went back for an hour of cardio (Coach I hope you are reading this...)- Tomorrow we are planning on doing Body pump and Beginners spin class, then later in the week a spin/Ab class and a body and mind fusion class (?). Going to be interesting, one of these days I will post a video of how funny I look when I walk because I am sure I will be sore come Saturday.

I came back to my messy kitchen and did the dishes and swept, then told my roommates how I felt about the situation (yeah, I'm that girl...) and they totally agree. They said the boys had random guy friends over last night and that it doesn't ever happen that way and that they were so sorry, they are trying to be more strict with the guys. (They're all freshmen...joy) We got it a little bit cleaner, but same thing happened tonight after dinner...Oh well...

Hahaha oh yeah and about 10 people have told me they loveeee my accent... "I wish I sounded so cute like you; your accent is adorable", "aw, are you from the country, your accent is so southern" and my favorite,  "You sound so American", --- and the Irish do not think they have an accent by the way.

Alright- I just realized this is a realllly long entry again. Oops.

Night (for me)

I have a new email account, I just do not know how to log into it on my computer, I made my password on an Irish computer and think the keys are different then my own, so I can not remember what I have to type exactly to log back in... I'll find out tomorrow and give you the new email, since I can not open my Guilford emails (again, Coach, I hope you are reading this...)