What am I actually doing here?

Alright. I'm going to tell you what in the what I'm actually doing academically here in Denmark. So you're reading this. If you don't want to know what I'm doing here then stop doing that.




Okay, we're alone now. We got rid of all those pretenders. Now lean in, I'm going to share something with you that Miami doesn't want you to hear:

Now you're probably all like, "No grades what" but then I'd tell you, "Yes grades but Miami doesn't count them toward your GPA and doesn't even list them next to the course so you're golden so long as you pass and punctuation is for suckers".

One may assume, based on this information, that I am not really trying to hard over here, and instead just living it up in Europe. Well I'll have you know: You're right. But not how you think. See: not having to worry about grades takes much of the stress out of academics, and I feel like, for the first time, I'm going to class not with an objective of getting an "A", but simply just to take in as much information as I can. Those hippie-dippie-"we don't give grades, just experiences"-schools make a lot more sense to me now.

Thank you for reading this far, by the way. This post is already long, so let's keep the rest of my points to 19 words each.


Let me highlight for you my classes and how they relate back to my Environmental-Political... Envirolitical... Individualized Studies major. (19)

DANISH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
Okay, bad example, this class doesn't relate to my major, but it's hella-interesting. NOTE: I'm terrible at Danish. (19)


DANISH POLITICS AND SOCIETY
I'm a political science minor, this is getting me credit. Denmark has eight parties, not three like the U.S. (19)


RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS
I'm learning all about implementation of wind, solar, biomass, etc. This is me hugging a wind turbine last week (19):

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 
Implementation of sustainability into society via politics and economics. Sustainable Development is too complex to explain in nineteen words. (19)






So, I hope this post was informative. A Miami class is supposed to read this. I'm sorry Western 251. (19)





Thank you, as always, for viewing this. It means more to me than you know. Hopefully it was enjoyable. (19)







Dictated, not read,



Tyler Elliott

This is Table Mountain

I climbed this.

Oh. Hai.

Oh.  Hi.  This is Chelsea.  I haven't posted in forever... well... I haven't posted since I got here... and that was almost two months ago.  I figure I can give you a rundown as to what life has been like since arriving in San Francisco.

These are all over the place.  People
ride them from building to building.
When they plan on coming back to the
bike they take the seat out so no one
else will take it. 

Okay.  So.  Lets see...  January was kind of a crazy month.  In the first week I had interviews for internships, among some visits to different companies.  We went to Google.  That was pretty neat.  I'm not allowed to talk about what we talked about... but I have some pictures.  So you can enjoy those.  One thing that I feel like I can talk about was this really cool monitor that showed where Google was being used.  There were different colors for different languages, and then basically you could tell time zones due to what was lit up versus what wasn't.

This was up on a stage in a cafeteria
that we got to eat in (the food at Google
was quite good, actually).

Hm.  After interviews happened, I got an offer to join Torbit for the semester.  They're a small startup in Sunnyvale, CA (so, you know, I'm down in Silicon Valley, and that's legit, trust me) that focuses on website optimization.  I've enjoyed my time here, and honestly... startups in general grow so fast.  It's a unique environment to be learning in.  I get to not only do my job (social media marketing and other random tasks) but I get to learn a little bit about other aspects of business... like sales and a little bit of the thought process of coding (I'm not a coder, but I may actually get a little bit of a background in coding in my time here... either by teaching myself, or by some help from some experts) just by listening to the goings on in the office.  We're all in one room.  My desk is next to the CEO.  It's pretty cool.

Random fun fact:  I'm a proud new owner of an iPhone.  It's black.  It holds all my music and many fun apps.  I don't know how I survived without it (and its wonderful map functions).  It makes adventuring in the city that much easier.  I'm a happy girl.

What else to talk about... hm.  Chinatown is actually really cool.  It's the year of the dragon, so there was a huge Chinese New Year Parade two weekends ago.  That was fun.  Obviously there were a lot of dragons.  Otherwise there were a lot of people setting off firecrackers and poppers in the street.  That was kind of insane actually (people were walking everywhere and setting them off whenever, even if that meant right in front of you).  Here are some other awesome pictures:

  

  

So... other fun things I've done:  I've hiked up to Twin Peaks, which has a great view of the city, and that is evident in this next fun picture:

And then I also went hiking in Muir Woods.  There were some fun views there as well:

    

That's the exciting stuff I've seen and done.  Or the gist of it at least.  I should work on posting once a week... but there's not a ton of exciting stuff to talk about other than my adventuring on the weekends.  We'll see what happens this weekend.  I may go see some ruins on Saturday.  However, Spring Break should end in some fun interesting tales... I have a lot planned -- Alcatraz, perhaps the San Francisco Zoo, some hiking, some museums, and whatever other random fun things I can come up to do.

So.  There's my life so far.  I'm sure I'm missing on other things... but if you want more updated stuff, follow me on Twitter (@chelseamaya) or check out my pictures on Facebook.

--  Chelsea