classes

So school finally (somewhat unfortunately) started this week. Love how diverse my lecturers are. Here's an updated list of classes I'm taking:

- Gender, Sex, Religion - love the professor. She's an incredibly smart Muslim woman who looks like a Bollywood star. She warmly smiles while lecturing, calls Marx her "main man," and when the projector broke on her yesterday, she humbly exclaimed, "this shit always happens to me."

- Theories, Politics, and Action - another beautiful woman of color who is hilarious and challenging and stresses the application of feminist thought and action into our own everyday lives. When anyone in class speaks she brings her hands to her face, pensively scrounges her brow, nods and says "mmmhmmmm."

- Religion and Society - a Jewish professor who wears a kipa, is very demanding, and has a somewhat rambling teaching style. He really expects his students to engage in the same scholarly level as him; this is the class I'm the most ambivalent about, considering that it stresses philosophy, which I have absolutely no grasp of. [[dropped the class, and switched into History of World Cinema, which is great because I'm one of two non-South Africans in a class of 150 or so]]

- African Dance - taught by a beautiful black dancer, who "makes himself light" when he dances; he's really great, but the motion is extremely foreign to me and I just am hoping my body is following along the slightest bit. There's apparently a recital at the end of the semester, which I am NOT looking forward to. Especially since I'm nervous I have a better chance of being put up front because I'm so small. I've already warned my friends that I'm lying about its date. But I'm staying in the class due to the fact that I'm confident I'm not THE worst one (because of this, it is also a great source of amusement).