<p>I’m going to Central America for six weeks with my family. For two weeks I’ll be in language school, living with a local family, the next two weeks just living in another village, and I forget what I"m doign the last two. Anyway, I will have a LOT of free time. My mom thinks that we’ll figure out things to do, but I’m not convinced. I am thinking there will be a bunch of days with NOTHIng planned, where I will be sitting around.</p>
<p>So my question is, what can I do with all this free time? I will do my summer AP work, read some books (open to suggestions, please), and run/work out for soccer. What are some things I can learn? I’m thinking about learning Rubix cube, how to string a lacrosse stick, and bringing some drumsticks and a pad and learning to drum. </p>
<p>I’ve tried the MIT thing for a lot of courses and I don’t think it works. What happens to me, (and I’ve done it in about 3 computers) is that I download the course. Once you do it, there’s no course. There’s only the original website of the course. For example, when I downloaded German I, the website said: “This is German 1”. When I downloaded the course, all I got was a replica of the website in my computer. :(</p>
<p>The same happened with some Bio and Physics courses I downloaded. Is that supposed to happen? Am I doing something wrong? Did it work for you??? Cause I’d love to take some courses there!</p>
<p>Are those courses for reals? Are they online classes or are they actual physical classes? Do you get credit form them? HAve they started? Are they beneficial to your college application?</p>
<p>MetdethGNR - I think it depends on what course you’re planning on taking, and what the professor has done with it. It looks like there isn’t anything except a sample quiz for German I, but there’s a LOT for Introduction to Biology - study sheets, video lectures, etc. And for that class, all the material is just on the website, there isn’t just one link that says download the course or anything (but just for that class).</p>
<p>collegehopeful78 - Well, they’re the materials and stuff for the actual classes, but it’s not an actual class, so you wouldn’t get any credit from it. And there isn’t really any set time frame in which you need do it, or you could just decide to do a couple of things from different courses or whatever. But no credit is given. And I guess it could help with colleges, but I’m not sure how you could show it to them except maybe in an essay, since it’s really easy to just say you self-studied something.</p>
<p>Sounds like you have plenty to do. Enjoy the time with your family. Help with chores. Make special appetizers and drinks and serve them to everyone as a surprise. Get up early and make a special breakfast.</p>
<p>The Rubiks Cube is a great idea, keeps you thinking and kills alot of precious time. I learned how to solve the cube in about a week and got down to 45 seconds in approximately a month, on and off. It gets very competitive if you race one of your friends,lol.</p>
<p>Get to know the people in Central America. If you go into a village the villagers will be HIGHLY interested in you since you’re from a foreign land!!!</p>
<p>i think he meant ***** (this is how you spell it: p-e-n-i-s) hole, so make sure you guard it. you can use a rubber band, or, your hands assuming *yours is big enough to handle in the first place.</p>
<p>Err… how about explore the actual culture Central America has to offer?</p>
<p>I guarantee you 100% Latinos have 10x the culture the U.S. will ever hope to have </p>
<p>Though I’d be careful playing soccer if I were you. We’re naturals at it But you better learn some Spanish insults first, you might be on the receiving end of one and not even know it!</p>
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But you better learn some Spanish insults first, you might be on the receiving end of one and not even know it!</p>