Coming up on a four-day weekend for my daughter’s husband, we are making plans to go to the beach. I have been in Hawaii since August 12th and have yet to go to the beach although walking my granddaughter to and from school has given me a bit of a tan anyway. I am not a sun worshiper, meaning, I do not like to lay out on the beach for the tan…but, I do like to play in the water which delights my granddaughter no end. The twins are too little to spend much time in the sun, but it will be their first experience in the ocean and where better than in Honolulu?
School restarts for me in two weeks. I thought that taking a 4-week break would drag, but surprisingly the time has flown by and I’m already half way through the break. I am a little bit concerned about losing my momentum. My daughter, who graduated in May of this year said that her last year was hard to stick with. Everything becomes so tedious; the team projects, the subjects—these are required courses and many, if not all, are uninteresting which adds to the difficulty in digging in and remaining motivated. I remember in my first year the university had two-week break at Christmas and it occurred during a 9-week class making the class 11 weeks long. This was close to excruciating because I remember the class was not very interesting and resuming an uninteresting class after a 2-week break was not easy.
I resume classes on September 15th, but at the beginning of the class rather than in the middle, so maybe it will be different this time. The class is microeconomics—uninteresting, downright boring to me—but maybe, just maybe the instructor will be the opposite.
In the meantime, I am looking forward to playing on the beach with my granddaughter. Where’d I put that sunscreen?