Although I've enjoyed the Renaissance Society's offerings at Sac State, the offerings seem to be either professional lecturers/speakers or fellow society members giving little more than "book reports" on a favorite topic of theirs. I still enjoy a regular class with homework, quizzes, and class discussion. So I picked up the current schedule of fall classes from American River College.
My first thought was taking an Elementary German class so that I could brush up on my German. But Carolyn thought I should take Conversational Spanish so we could use it on a trip to Mexico. Then I remembered what fun the two of us had had taking drawing together and taking a semester of guitar instruction together. Of course, that was back when Carolyn was rarely out of town and we could plan on a Tuesday or Thursday evening out.
But wait! Even now when she spends so much time on the road, she's almost always home by Friday afternoon. Do they teach Conversational Spanish on Friday evenings? Yes! They're off campus classes but no further away than the guitar class or the archeology class I took. The more we discussed it, the more it sounded like a lot of fun and potentially useful, too. Even if we never get to Mexico, Carolyn could probably apply it in her work.
Registering for the class was another matter. It seems that American River College as part of the Los Rios Education District, doesn't like to keep "deadwood" on their rolls. If you miss taking a class one semester, you're no longer "active" and have to submit a whole new application to register again. As "non-traditional" students, even when we take a class every semester we have to submit a "mini-application" to verify we're still interested in taking classes with no degree in mind. Fortunately, this can all be done online so in an evening we were able to apply, register, and pay our fees. Now we just have to wait until August to start the class.
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