First week of classes complete

So my class on Wednesday, War, Media and Democracy, sounds like it is going to be great! Now granted we were only in there for about 35 minutes for our first lesson, but still, that's all he had planned for us! We do have to read about the The Victorian War Correspondents from the Crimean War, but that's for our lesson next week. At any rate, that's sort of the gist of the class, each week we go over a different war and he lectures for an hour and gives us background and history and then talks about media impact on the war and that sort and then the last hour is debate and that sort of thing. Our assessment for this class is not an exam but a written case study on one of the wars that we are doing and it is worth 80% of our grade. So will need to put a lot of effort into it, but the word count maximum is only 2500 words, which is not a lot compared to things that I've written for American classes. Still I think this will be my favorite class. My Thursday class, Social Psychology and The Media, should be good as well. We have some interesting topics to discuss, but after learning week the class becomes like an independent study and we no longer have to go to it and just have to work on our independent projects, which are basically like mini-dissertations. Approximately 4,000 words. So that should be interesting in itself, the paper is due May 4, for 80% of our grade and the presentations are during weeks 11 and 12 for 20% of our grade, so after May 4, I will be done with that class. But this class also sounds really interesting and like it will be really cool and fun to go to. We were going to go to Birmingham this weekend, but our plans have changed, because one of the exchanges ended up getting a house here, so they are having a house warming party Saturday. So I think we are going to Birmingham next weekend perhaps. We are all beginning to look at trips now that we've had our first week of modules and have found trips for 14 pounds and under in some accounts! Well I'm off for now! Hope all is well in the states!