Well, that's not entirely true. I'm really enjoying my job and all the people I work with. Since I'm not in charge of any fall semester sports, I don't have too much work to do on my own teams meaning I can help out whatever sport that needs attention. And I did get to drive one of the campus golf carts to the library this afternoon, so that's pretty big time. However, the small load of work on my plate lends to very short hours and I'm able to hit the gym for 1.5 to 2 hours each day. And I'm still not losing my damn France weight! In time...
I have been thinking a lot though, since I'm a grad assistant I will be taking classes in less than a month and I have two things I really want to check into. As a grad student, I don't imagine I'll have too many classes/seminars, but more ongoing research work for my final thesis. If this is the case, I would love to take some upper-division French undergrad courses to keep my French at a decent level so I emailed the head of the dept. this morning. And also, I want to start learning another language, so I want to see if it's possible to sit in on/audit any grammar classes like Spanish or possibly German.
And speaking of French, I'm sort of developing a long-term goal here. When I have my Master's in two year's time and once my assistantship is up, if I can't break back into professional sports I would definitely plan on staying at the collegiate level. However, I still want to use my French, so I'm going to think very, very hard for the next two years about applying to work at McGill University in Montreal if there are any openings. I want to say their Athletics Department has something ridiculous like 50 varsity sports including winter sports like skiing, ice skating, hockey, etc. and BASEBALL, basketball and American football!
Yeah, I realize there will be snow and extreme colds, but I'll also get to work for a collegiate athletics department and use my French on a daily basis (and if I ever get to this point... have bilingual children!).
But that's quite a long time away.
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WOOOO MCGILL!!!! I love Montreal!
That's funny, because I'm one of those unemployed people with no job and I have lots of--
Aw, shit.
you're such a white person sometimes.
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/02/28/78-multilingual-children/
I think Spanish is probably more useful if you're intending to stay on this side of the Atlantic, just don't try both at once, the Gerspanish that I came up with at one point was pretty ridiculous!
lol I just saw Jennie's last post about not discouraging people to learn two at once. Go for it if you want!!
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