Morning, Everyone

Morning. It's morning, everyone! Today's the day! The sun is shining...the tank is clean...

Can anyone name that movie?

...Finding Nemo...? Anyone? Anyone?... Bueller?

I swear I'm not totally immature (only a little bit), I just happen to have a juvenile taste in movies is all. Pixar especially.

In fact, I often wonder what I would look like as a Pixar character...

But this is all besides the point. Today is a fantastic day because the sun is out and it is shining!

Well, shining in between the occasional clouds... But shining none-the-less!

I must have been absent in class that day when we discuss that  Dijon is basically the Seattle of France...

See what I mean?

I haven't seen the sun shine since I left The States on the 14th, and I gotta admit, it feels pretty darn good to have a little Vitamin-D splash on my face. A girl's gotta keep the rickets at bay, ya-know-what-I-mean?

Perhaps the sun decided to show it's face today because it knew today was the first day of classes and I would be spending the majority of daylight hours indoors.

Rather spiteful, wouldn't you say? 

In any case, it feels nice to walk in-between classes with the sun out instead of the drab, gray, forlorn clouds that often lurk above the city.

The first 3 hours of my day, in-between looking longingly out  the window of course, I spent in my first Intro to Wine Tourism class.

It was three hours of lecture, but only in a class of eight other students in my program, which is great because it forces you not to "zone-out" and allows you to be very present within the discussion. 

I'm a sucker for in-class participation, so this is an ideal set-up for me because the small class size allows me to ask questions freely and easily without feeling like I'm wasting the time of 100 other students. 

I've never taken any business courses at UNH, but I've had two internships in Marketing, and the more and more I learn about it the more I ponder the possibility of pursuing an MBA...

Although the minute my mind crosses over to that possibility I feel a pang of guilt as I feel like I'm cheating on my one true love: sustainable agriculture. 

I'm hoping that I can merge both of those worlds together in my future career someday...maybe even a splash of politics too...

That's one really tough thing about wanting reform within a field you're really passionate about -- one of the only ways to bring about change is through business or politics. And both ventures don't exactly tickle my fancy quite like learning about biodynamics, composting, crop rotation and permaculture do...

However, I'm very glad that EcoGastronomy has brought me to a business school while I study abroad. It's a low risk venture with a really high return value (see? I'm picking up lingo already). 

What I mean is that If I find myself liking the business classes I take -- great, then I'll know that this is a field that I enjoy learning about and could potentially pursue in my graduate studies.

If not? Well, then that's great too, because at minimum I will able to say on a resume that I attended at business university and have at least one semester's worth of experience under my belt in business education.

Man, I sure do love a win-win situation.