No More Homework?

Hey everyone,

I'm now starting my last official week in Prague, and I can't believe how fast it has gone! I'll be back in Michigan on Saturday afternoon, and though I'm very excited to be home, I do think I'll miss some of the amazing people I've met here and the beautiful surroundings (not that Kalamazoo isn't great, but let's face it, it's no centuries-old European city).

I workshopped my final piece today, and I feel that it went very well. It's a very new project, and a little experimental as far as form and style go, so I was very happy that it went over as well as it did. I still have a lot of work to do, but it's nice to fine-tune the focus and see what really needs to be done.

For once in my life, I'm actually finished with my homework early. For the program, each student seeking credit must write 100 words on each lecture speaker and 1,000 words as a final essay to sum up the program and their take on the year's topic (The Nature of Mother Nature: Women, Power, and the Environment). I'm actually done with all of this, and it's not even due until tomorrow. Actually, I'll have to write two more 100-word synopses of tomorrow's lectures, but that won't be so bad. 200 words is about a paragraph...

Tonight for photography, we're going on a night-shoot, so I'm not in class for the afternoon like I usually am, and I'm really not sure what to do with myself, it's a little odd. I'm contemplating some packing, but it just doesn't sound all that exciting. We'll see what happens.

I love you all and I'll see you soon!
-Emily