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Hokay. So.

After having an insanely busy fall semester, working myself to the brink of insanity and coming out with 3.7 GPA (yes, I’m bragging), I’m finally bringing myself to blog. It’s not as if anyone reads this, so I’m just going to ramble.

First of all, I’m leaving in June to live in Europe for a year.  I’m taking two classes in Ireland over the summer, then traveling to Spain for a Spanish immersion program to become fluent in Spanish. Though I don’t know if I’ll be accepted into the program, I’ll hopefully be studying in Murcia in the south.

Secondly, I have about 17 novels to read this semester. I’m taking two literature classes–Victorian England and Chicano/a lit. So, here’s my list of books:
The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling
The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The Coming Race by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
Selected Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale
The Revolt of the Cockroach People by Oscar Zeta Acosta
So far from God by Ana Castillo
Mother Tongue by Demetria Martinez
Days of Awe by Achy Obejas
George Washington Gomez- a Mexicotexan Novel by Americo Parredes
The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gomez by John Rechy
Y no se lo tragó la tierra by Tomás Rivera
Under the Feet of Jesus by Helena María Viramontes

I am excited and not about all of this reading. I’m afraid I won’t be able to do it, but then again, I know I will because when I want to prove everyone wrong I’ll finish something. This is probably not the best take.