"You must learn to breathe through your vagina . . . "
Need I say that our director is a bit crazy? :)
Well, here I am writing again. I got to my homestay fine last night, although I ended up being in a different one then I was assigned to. I was supposed to stay by myself in a homestay, but ended up with another student. Our homestay person's name is Mahida, and she is kinda crazy and fun. She doesn't know a whole bunch of English, but she does know sexual terms (as she showed when pointing out the 'clitoris' of a key and the 'nipple' of the door). She is also convinced that the person I am rooming with and I are lesbians and in a relationship (and in denial about being lesbians). There is also a window between the bathroom and the kitchen, which we will soon remedy with a piece of cloth. Anyway, it should be an interesting homestay.
So, today we had a class about trafficking and people in Germany. For those of you who don't know exactly what that is (and I only had a small idea about that before I left), trafficking is when a person agrees to migrate to somewhere else (usually to another country) on certain terms (ie will have a specific job with certain pay and benefits) and then is exploited when they get to where they are going (such as horrible pay and working conditions). This can be associated with sexual work, but it is not limited to that. We have had a lecture on trafficking in each country, but today's was the most well-thought out. I enjoyed it.
So to answer Dad's question (see comment on last post). . . This trip is, obviously, focused on women's studies. We have four classes. One is an independent research project, for which we are interviewing people in several countries. One of the classes is called Situated Feminims. For that class, we write a paper before we enter a country. The first paragraph has to be before we read anything about a the country--about our expectations. Then the rest of the paper is written after we read material. Then we write a paper as we leave a country to compare to our expectations and other countries. Also, all the lectures we are getting from people in each country are for this class. Then we have Feminist Methodologies and Comparative Theories. We read all the material and wrote papers on these before we left, and then we are having classes on the material here. We can also rewrite our papers. And that is all our classes. But we have a lecture almost everyday, and classes 2-3 times a week. It's not as academically demanding as it is at home, but that is because we are having to navigate another country with another language, etc.
So, tonight we are going to grab some dinner, and then head home, I guess. I need to read for our class tomorrow.
Anyway! Gute nacht!
Jennifer
Well, here I am writing again. I got to my homestay fine last night, although I ended up being in a different one then I was assigned to. I was supposed to stay by myself in a homestay, but ended up with another student. Our homestay person's name is Mahida, and she is kinda crazy and fun. She doesn't know a whole bunch of English, but she does know sexual terms (as she showed when pointing out the 'clitoris' of a key and the 'nipple' of the door). She is also convinced that the person I am rooming with and I are lesbians and in a relationship (and in denial about being lesbians). There is also a window between the bathroom and the kitchen, which we will soon remedy with a piece of cloth. Anyway, it should be an interesting homestay.
So, today we had a class about trafficking and people in Germany. For those of you who don't know exactly what that is (and I only had a small idea about that before I left), trafficking is when a person agrees to migrate to somewhere else (usually to another country) on certain terms (ie will have a specific job with certain pay and benefits) and then is exploited when they get to where they are going (such as horrible pay and working conditions). This can be associated with sexual work, but it is not limited to that. We have had a lecture on trafficking in each country, but today's was the most well-thought out. I enjoyed it.
So to answer Dad's question (see comment on last post). . . This trip is, obviously, focused on women's studies. We have four classes. One is an independent research project, for which we are interviewing people in several countries. One of the classes is called Situated Feminims. For that class, we write a paper before we enter a country. The first paragraph has to be before we read anything about a the country--about our expectations. Then the rest of the paper is written after we read material. Then we write a paper as we leave a country to compare to our expectations and other countries. Also, all the lectures we are getting from people in each country are for this class. Then we have Feminist Methodologies and Comparative Theories. We read all the material and wrote papers on these before we left, and then we are having classes on the material here. We can also rewrite our papers. And that is all our classes. But we have a lecture almost everyday, and classes 2-3 times a week. It's not as academically demanding as it is at home, but that is because we are having to navigate another country with another language, etc.
So, tonight we are going to grab some dinner, and then head home, I guess. I need to read for our class tomorrow.
Anyway! Gute nacht!
Jennifer
posted by Jennifer @ 8:39 PM
1 Comments:
At 7:32 PM,
Anonymous said…
Dad again... thanks for the update. Will reread in the morning when I am less tired. Yes .. interesting Director. Just wanted to acknowledge that I read it before hitting the sack.
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