School

My schedule for the spring '09

• History of US-China Relations
• MW 11:35-1250
  

• California Ecology

• MWF 1:30-2:20

• lab- M 3:30-5:15

• Japanese Culture
• TR 10:30-12:15

• Japanese 4
  
• TR 1:30-3:15

With those classes, I'll finish my Japanese minor and core requirements, minus service learning. That's assuming that I'll be taking some theology class during the summer. But anyways, after the spring 09 semester, I have 2 more semesters to finish my major. I just got back from talking with my adviser and he said that I only need to take 3 more classes to complete my major. I kinda got my fall 09 semester planned out already. History internship is only offered in the fall, so I'm taking that. Not only does it count for my major but also for service learning, so that's pretty sweet. Besides that class, I'm going to take one non-Asian history class and one Asian history class. And I have an extra space that I'm probably going to fill with some Asian Studies minor course. I haven't officially declared my Asian studies minor but I think that I only have to take one more class to satisfy it. So I could possibly declare and complete the Asian Studies minor in the fall 09 semester. I was trying to figure out what classes to take in my last semester, spring 10. If there were anything else that I would want to minor in, it would be philosophy. I already took one philosophy class and you need five in total for a minor. So I was thinking that in my last semester I could take 4 philosophy classes and add another minor to my whatever make believe thing that holds my minors. My other option would be to take 8 two credit classes. I don't know though. I feel like you're setting yourself up for something bad to happen when you plan so far in advance. But whatevs.

"If you want to keep learning, become a teacher! That's why I became one."
That's what one of my history teachers said as I left his class. That's not that first time that a teacher suggested that I follow in their footsteps. My 8th grade history teacher told one day that I would make a good history teacher, it was super random. At the time, I thought nothing of it, since there's no money in education. But it's weird that I haven't really remembered anything else that she said to me. Or maybe it's that I chose to remember only that because, even though I hadn't realized it yet, I had a huge interest in history. I don't know, it's just fuckin weird. I have a feeling that I'll be remembering what my prof said to me today for a long time. That last sentence sounded really gay.
We had like a short 15 minute discussion on if there is a such thing as an Asian American identity or are they all separate like Korean American, Japanese American......blah blah blah. It's something that has been on my mind ever since I first thought about it last semester in Asian American Philosophy. I haven't really talked to anyone about it since but it has always been on my mind. My prof kind of more or less agreed with me in that there's no such thing as an Asian American Identity. I told him that I wanted to study it more but that I didn't really have the time to fit those kind of classes into my schedule. And then he told me that.
I think it's because I kind of figured out my last 3 semesters of college that I've been thinking about teaching and shit. Graduation seems sooo close. It's even closer for Andrew and Emil (my other 2 roommates for those of you weird people who are reading my blog and don't know me. Please stop reading this if that is you.) But to teach , I still have to get a masters in education. But again, I don't think I should be worrying about things so far in the future. It would be speaking without thinking (kinda right?)and according to my horoscope for today, I need to refrain from that.