First Post
Welcome to my new blog. I decided to start this blog as a place to keep track of the bigger, more important things going on in my life. I have a LiveJournal, but it often gets filled up with trivial things, spur of the moment rants, and silly memes. This blog will be for more thought-out, and generally more important stuff.
So, what is going on in my life right now? Since I graduated in 2005 I have been working as the Director of the Culpeper Language Center at Gustavus Adolphus College. The job is basically to develope and maintain the language center and provide technical support to the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures. It is a pretty interesting job, and I really like working in an academic setting and being exposed to so may languages and cultures. I am also teaching a January term course at Gustavus this year: MLC 101 - Intro Chinese. It’s mainly a language course, but we will be exploring Chinese culture as well through activities, movies and our language exercises. I am really excited for the class.
Let’s see, what else? Ethan and I are still happily married (one year, 4 months!). It’s been about a year since we moved into our house in St. Peter. We have done a fwe things to the house since we moved: painted the dining room, stairwell and 2nd floor hallway, took down two tree/bush things from out front, and totally re-did the bathroom. We really like our house, and there are a lot of advantages to living in St. Peter, like living less than a mile from work. We still do go up to the cities on a regular basis though.
Speaking of going up to the cities, I am also still playing hockey. I am on a WHAM B2 team in the Twin Cities called the Arrows. This will be my second season with the team. It is a great group and I have a lot of fun playing with them. Between hockey and class I drive up to Minneapolis at 3 times a week now a days. But it’s worth it.
In the future I’ll keep posts shorter (and never try to add links again, what a pain!), and add more about what Ethan is up to (he’s not here right now, so I don’t want to say much, other than that he’s doing well). I hope this helps keep people outside of the LJ world up to date on what is going on in the lives of the St. Peter Sommers. Take care!