It is officially DECEMBER!!!! I get to come home this month! -- I really can't believe that I have been gone for over 3 months, and that I will soon be snuggled up on the couch at 102 Harrison Court playing with the dog and talking to mom and dad.... woah. I get incredibly excited just thinking about it! :) This week was probably one of the wierdest weeks of school ever. I had class every day from about 9am - 4pm straight. We would get a short lunch break, but I was literally in class all day. NOT FUN! Monday through Thursday, I had a mandatory Statistics lecture that i had to attend. In this class, we learned how to use this data analysis program to analyze the data we collected for our Market Research project. One heck of a party, ladies and gentlemen! lol. On Friday and Saturday, I finished up my Negotiation Management class. We had a presentation of a real world negotiation case with our groups. My group was the first to present, and everything went very smoothly.... or so we thought. Our professor got up in front of the class after we got finished and began telling the good points and bad points of our presentation. She said that our content and video and everything was just fine and dandy, but THEN she started in on our presentation style..... oh boy. Apparently, me, Anna, and Jay (they are from Canada) are entirely too "Dynamic and North American." Well, EXCUUUUSE me for being a self-starter! And excuse me for being American.... I'll just go change that really fast. I'm sure that it will be no problem! She really criticized the fact that we seemed very comfortable up in front of people. Before we presented, she told us that it was a very casual setting..... so, though we were completely serious and professional, we didn't stand up in front of the class like soldiers. I thought we created a lovely learning atmosphere..... apparently not! -- Our teacher really didn't say one good thing about us.... or any of the groups that followed. We were just the guinnea pigs for her criticism.... SOMEONE got up on the wrong side of her Austrian bed this morning, is all I have to say! haha. On Saturday, she told us that those presentation style criticisms wouldn't reflect our score (thank goodness!), but that it was a useful lesson, since OBVIOUSLY none of us had ever had presentation experience before. Well, the people in Kentucky like me! This coming week will be full of group meetings for my 3 presentations due next week.... looking forward to it! -- On Thursday night, I leave for Germany for the weekend with Alyssa! YAY!