i *heart* school

i really do! here at least! i loved the Gender and Development class i just took in the spring... here's my paper by the way, about mainstreaming gender into Jeffrey Sach's outline of ending global poverty by 2025.

www.sfu.ca/~dplim/GenderPaper.pdf (thx to debbie from home for uploading it!!)

and now im actually in a bit of a dilemma about what to do this semester, i have TOO MANY good classes to take!! what a problem, eh?? =) im still deciding but i think my plan now is to take

Conflict and Development - about causes & links between conflict & dev, and peace buiding & conflict resolution/management... course outline looks awesome, and theres actually 4 days of Conflict Management Workshops in the semester... i wanted to go to a similar workshop on peacebuilding in Vancouver last december, and one day was $75! and i just watched "Blood Diamond" with my roommates last night, all this conflict stuff is so huge

Development Classics - past & present approaches/theories of development... including the discourse about depoliticizing development that my friend jess from Queens was studying last semester and i was so jealous of understanding! =)

Development Aid and Politics - this one starts in March, so not sure exactly yet

and sit in on Research Methods, Development Microeconomics (for rural farm households) and Political Ecology without taking them for credit, but some of the class times overlap which is too bad. and also maybe once the semester gets busy i wont be able to keep up with them all, but wow.. i almost wish i was doing my degree here! but i think i have enough half-finished degrees already, i need to finish one of them first! haha.. yah.. the classes are great, theres tons of reading but they're super interesting, and everyone actually really cares about development and people and social issues and the environment. even if you didnt before i think it'd be contagious! =) some of our social events throughout the week are even development related... if you have the chance, watch this video some of us watched together a couple nights ago... a crazy and true story about what British/US military did in secret to the people of Diego Garcia.

okay, im sure that my school posts aren't so exciting for most of you but they really are for me! =) and it'll give you a bit more of an idea of what im up to here. im going skiing again tomorrow near oslo, so ill post some more fun norwegian pictures again! (and hopefully ill have more luck this time than last weekend!)

talk to you guys again soon! thanks also for all your emails... if i haven't gotten back to you yet, im super sorry and i *am* going to very soon!! love you all!!
rainbow =)