classes

so there are about 20 classes offered at the NYU academic center, and i'm interested in about 5 of them. the problem then is that i'm also interested in taking courses at the University of Ghana, as well as Ashesi, but now that i've attended most of the classes, i'm thinking I may just take NYU classes for credit and audit courses at the other campuses. UG just seems really disorganized and I'm not sure if i want to deal with the stress from that system, and I'm still not really sure about the professor at Ashesi. so it looks like i'll be taking a literature course called African women speak on monday mornings, and then Globalization in the developing world monday afternoons. On tuesday morning is the one anthropology course offered, but I'm still not sure how I like that professor either. That class is called society, culture, and modernization. The Ashesi course meets tuesday and thursday afternoons, and late on tuesday afternoon is the film course, Documenting the African City, which should be really interesting, because it's a way of studying what we see while we're here, and creating a documentary about the experience. Yesterday was one of the UG courses I was interested in taking- Gender Issues, from the Sociology dept, but there was a glitch with the professor not being there and the prof who was supposed to cover had a conflicting class, so we were apparently supposed to have found out that the class was rescheduled for later, except no one knew that. unfortunately this rescheduling of classes without telling anyone is typical at UG, and since it's just a large lecture, that's part of why I'm thinking I may just try to attend the lectures, but not sit the exam. Because they are also on the british system, so most of our grade is just from one final exam...which is different/ scary. Today, I thought there was a course on Pan-africanism that I thought I'd try, but it too was apparently rescheduled here at the NYU center, and I missed that memo, and can't attend it this afternoon because of the ashesi course....but that's probably better because I'm already taking too many classes. Tomorrow, I'll go to UG again to try out a 2 credit zoology course, mostly just to see how they teach science courses, and we'll see how that goes. Friday is also when they offer Twi class, which i'd like to attend to learn more of the language, but I don't think I'd want to take that for credit. So that is generally what I'm thinking about classes, except a group of us might also try to take dance and/ or drumming courses with a dance troupe that we saw perform on sunday, and i'll put up pictures from that soon. actually, they're already uploaded, but I have to do a bit of editing, and then i'll let you all know how to access that to see pictures. I'll probably put videos up on youtube. and last night I also started working on putting up the roadtrip pictures...so that should be ready soon. now i'm going to go try to figure out my community service stuff, and then do laundry and work on pic stuff more. later-