Governance and Economy?

Yikes to the square!!! This summer I have taken 2 classes and one of them is called U.S. Governance and the Economy.  I was scared because I have no background on economics WHATSOEVER (in caps to emphasize!).  All the daily readings for class meant literally Vietnamese to me. I did not understand, not even one dang sentence from the book! I read, and re read and re read but it seemed that the more reading I did, the more confusing it was getting.  Andrew told me to just keep reading and that I was going to get it later.  I read about 100 pages a day and ate the book.  The result? I didn't understand a thing! not a single thing! I was so worried and tried to talk to Andrew about my class discussions since he knows about government and politics.  I was so lost the at the beginning; however, something amazing happened!! As I researched and attended classes faithfully and participated in class discussions with other class mates, everything started to make sense! I finished 4 books for this class, as I read and pushed forward, I learned a great deal from this class.  The professor also made the difference, she was always so optimistic and always trying to get everybody to participate.  I really liked that she wasn't boring! She was really energetic.  One of my favorite subjects is the U.S. financial crisis. The professor told us that our final paper is to write a report on our understanding of the financial crisis and how we could approach this case in order to solve it.  I said: O...M...G... how was I going to write that paper that I had no knowledge on?--

Now, as I am finishing my paper and about to turn it in tomorrow... I find myself writing more pages than the page limit.  I am so glad I took this course, it taught everything from economic regulation to moral ethics.  I can now talk about the financial crisis like those people that are on the news (ok, not that much) but at least I can hold a conversation about this topic.  I can understand the news on the financial crisis now, I can recognize some faces, some important people's names, some company names.  Not only that but I can understand the causes and what could we do in order to make things better.  Not that we have a lot of power, but we could do something.  If you see my blog-post before this one, you could tell that school was hard for me, but not anymore!! Andrew was right, I WAS GOING TO GET IT! I love my husband! He is always there when I need him, cheering me up.  I gained more confidence in myself too.  I must also mention that my prayers were answered and I am finally familiar with the U.S. governance and economy :)