Oh the relaxation

My first semester of college is over (uh... on the 15th... heh heh) and I am enjoying my time off very, very, very, very much. Here're a few things that went on since I last posted, uh, whenever.

• I officially passed my Online Service Learning course with a 74%, which is higher than I was expecting. Seriously, that course was just... balls. It was my first time doing an online course, which wasn't the hard part since I am a computer whiz. The hardest part was dealing with the teacher, who is permantly labelled 'doorknob' in my mind. She would barely answer emails to anyone, and when she did I'd had to read them more than once because I was barely able to understand what she was saying. And then I had to have my assignments modified because I was in a different part of the course and that was just a nightmare. But I passed, and I don't have to deal with this anymore.
• I also had an Applied Learning course which was completely self-directed, I just had to check in with faculty to prove to her that I was actually doing something. I did a PowerPoint presentation on autism using the With the Light series as a case study. And as stupid an idea that it might sound to most people to use a manga for a college project, my teachers and class thoroughly enjoyed it and said that it was very interesting. I also got a 92%. I am happy. And now I am wondering why I wasn't allowed to do book reports on manga when I was in high school.
• Christmas was awesome this year. Christmas Eve at Nanny's house was a little slow because nothing much was going on. The adults mostly stayed in the kitchen and the kids (just me and my brothers this year) just stayed in the living room. That's the problem I've found about Nanny's house, the adults don't really interact with the kids much at all. At Mémé's house on the other hand, everyone is mixed together in the living room. It's much more lively there too, everyone is joking around with everyone, even the kids.
• Then Santa came! He was my younger cousin this year, and he played a funny Santa. He was funny because it was my cousin and he's a funny guy, and it was funny because he spent a lot of time joking around with our older cousin. Oh was it ever funny. I laughed like a maniac.
• I got Jodi Picoult's book House Rules as a gift from my brothers Christmas morning and finished reading it that night. Awesome book. For a while there, I thought the ending was gonna piss me off, but it turned out alright in the end. And now I have no one to discuss the book with. *grumble*