This was second-year Swedish. It was a lot more difficult than first year, but well worth it and by the end of this second year, I was ready to go and study abroad in Sweden.

So, this class... even though it is called Slavic Linguistics, was not a class where we learned about Slavic Linguistics.  It was just taught through the Slavic department and used many Slavic examples.  The course actually taught the linguistic ideas behind bilingualism.  This was very interesting to me because I myself am (at the least) bilingual.

It was a really fun class, but there was a lot of readings.  It was okay though because some of the readings turned out to be really valuable. 

I was really happy that I was allowed to choose to focus on Swedish for the two papers I wrote and the research I put into the papers turned out to be really valuable as well.

My papers are posted in my portfolio:
http://www.yeonheeyim.com/slav-470---special-topics-bilingualism.html

My second year of marching band was pretty much a direct continuation of the first year.  I was still playing snare drum, but I had moved up a couple spots.  I say that it was like a continuation because although marching band is only officially in the fall, the band does things throughout the entire school year and sometimes during the summer too.  The drumline camp and band camp is in fact, during the summer. 

There's a couple extra cool things I got to do this year for the band though that was different from last year.  One, I got to help work on one of Dave's drumline projects and now there are pictures of me in Dave's book which is sold on tapspace.com.  This is really a cool book. 

http://www.tapspace.com/Stadium-54-pr-1.html

Two, I got to be involved in another of Dave's projects.  This one was an instructional marching percussion DVD that will be sold in Japan.  This is sort of silly because I might not know it, but in a few years... I might be big in Japan.

This class was like death for me, but I thought I'd try it out because I do like computers and languages.  Just not Java.

I learned in this class that computer coding takes a long long long time and I learned to respect well organized code.