Montana State University

First week of classes has officially happened!! We started on Wednesday and I really like all my classes. I think they are gonna be great! I am doing Integrating Technology into Education, which comes with a 2 hours prac every week for 6 weeks at an After School Program. Literature and Literacy for Children, which also comes with a similar prac at the After School Program and lots of books!! I had to buy 11 children's books for this course :) Methods: K-8 Creative Arts, which is basically music in the classroom. And Managing the Learning Environment, which is sorta behaviour management stuff. All my courses look super duper good and I can't wait to learn stuff!!

Everything is very different though. I have 1 or 2 classes for each course per week and I have homework for all of them every week. Sometimes just reading or a short essay or activity to do. So that's pretty different from USQ! I've met some lovely people in my classes too, although I've gotten to the stage where I recognise people but have no idea who they are or how I know them!!! I'm still working on names :P

All the buildings at MSU are really nice. They are big brick ones but some of them look really pretty. I'll have to take some photos for ya all...

I made a new friend the other day whose dad is a missionary in China and she's spent most of her life in China but has come back to the US for uni. She invited me to a Bible study group last week which we didn't end up going to but we did go shopping at Walmart yesterday which was pretty awesome!!

And then this morning I went to church!!! Yay!!! I went to Grace Bible Church, which is a non-denominational church that is really big and really lovely. We sang some hymns which I knew and some other songs I didn't know that were awesome. The whole service was really good and afterwards I talked to all sorts of people and met a girl who was in one of my classes! So I hung out with her and her husband for a while and we had lunch at church for a missionary who was leaving. Then they were super kind and drove me home (I had walked to church... only took me 30 minutes but I was glad for a short, warm trip home!!) And they invited me to the Bible study I was thinking of going to last week and a girls one at their house! So I may end up at a different Bible study every night!! :P

So this week of firsts has been great!! And it's warmed up heaps to 2 degrees today so all the snow is melting and getting all icy :( It does't look so pretty now. And certainly isn't so nice to walk on now!!

Well that's all for now! Hopefully I'll have more stories and friends after all my Bible studies next week! Have fun in the heat down under! :) xoxo