Monday, October 8

I think that I am going to be a lot more participatory and vocal in classes after study abroad. This is a side effect that I hadn’t anticipated at all. It’s not that I’m completely silent in classes, but I usually am not one of the more talkative ones. Perhaps part of it has just been that I’ve been in classes now from 4-10 students so we’re all forced to participate in class discussions more. But a bigger part of the reason is that my level of confidence in everything that I do has grown immensely just in the time I’ve been here. I feel much more competent and confident about facing the world.