Espanol Avanzado 1 - shouldn't be too difficult, I just have to show improvement over the semester
Literatura Introducion - not too worried yet, though this class will be a very abstract class (very different from what I'm used too) "In what way can literature be a form of knowing reality?"
Marketing - i have no clue what to expect, other than I expect to struggle. I didn't understand the assignment due Monday and I cant figure out which Marketing book by Kotler she wants - he wrote like 5, and then there a many editions of all of them.
Ritmos - love dance class. its the best. also hilarious. and sometimes like zumba.
Historia - if he didn't give us a 10 minute break in the middle of the hour and a half class we would never make it. never. i think we will learn a lot though. at the very least he will tell us a lot, whether or not we learn is another story.
Cultura Popular - yah i dropped that class, I didn't need it, and if I cant live here for 5 months and not learn any culture, I've failed at the most basic level already.
Literatura y Cine - what a first class. I may as well tell the whole story about this one:
So I was sitting outside the building on a bench, talking to my grandparents (in English on the phone using the campus wifi. I had reasonable length conversation with them and then I said "I'm going to have to go, my next class is Literature and Film and I'm kind of worried about it. Its for native Spanish speakers in their 7th semester." As soon as i finish saying that, the person sitting on the bench next to me turns and says in English "I'm your teacher so watch what you say, its my first class too, so don't be nervous." I didn't know how to respond, so i just smiled, nodded, and kept talking to the grandparents.
So then, i get to class and there's like a total of 8 of us in the class. Class starts and the professor starts talking and ... wow. In Spanish to begin with, it takes more words to say the same thing as in English but she used a lot more words than needed to explain. Luckily, i did benefit from that because when I didn't understand the first time, she said the same thing again 3 different ways. We read some poetry, talked about some books, and did some creativity activities. Then, after the break in the middle of the 3 hour class, she rolled out a large white poster piece of paper, handed us all paint brushes and ink, and then the directions were to write words. Just words, wherever the brush took you. I was like YES! this is an activity I can do. The idea was for the class to go back to their roots, but for me I'm still at my roots in Spanish so I was excelling at this activity. And then after we had filled the page with words, we had to connect them. It didn't matter if it made sense, we just had to make connections.
To me, after mainly science classes at university, these activities were very far out of the norm. Everyone else in the class went along with it though so maybe it's normal for this country. So when class let out at 10 pm, we all walked to the bus stop together (I was glad I didn't have to walk alone in the dark) and I don't know if it was I didn't understand the undertones of their sentences, but they were just like no big deal, we just spent an hour and a half on the floor of a classroom painting words. I like having a class like that, but I would not survive university if all my classes were like that.
But other than that special class, the others are pretty normal boring so far. The most excitement after that was today I went back to migraciones. That place ... I got there at 10:45 with Christina and we thought we just had to turn a piece of paper in and leave, because the last time we went one of our papers wasn't signed correctly with the proper stamp. But no, of course not - this is Argentina. So we take a number, wait our turn - 11:30, I hand in my paper and hes like thanks, you can take a seat now and wait. At 12, he calls me up and hands me back my papers and says great, you can come back in 12 to 15 days for your visa. But Christina's paper wasn't with mine anymore. I wait with her until nearly 1 when I leave to make it back in time for class. So 3 hours in the migraciones office for them to look at a piece of paper and then give it back. What is this country. But its cool, you never know what you will see in that office. Today in the 3 hours I was there I saw 3 boobs (different women) pulled out to feed the baby, a nun, and a baby sling for the back (which we creepily took pictures of) (what else were we going to do stuck in the migrations office?).
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| She had the infant wrapped in a very pretty blanket. |
And so that my only picture is not of a stranger. For breakfast, Betty got me yogurt in a bag. Its basically like a large bag of that drinkable yogurt. Which I then pour on my cereal instead of milk!
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| Yogurisimo! |
Things I eat a lot of in this country: yogurt and peaches. I average 2 cups of yogurt and 3 peaches a day.
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