First 2 Weeks of Class

Woke up monday morning to quite an unpleasant surprise....I have to take class here?! (Just kidding mom and dad). We had learned how to get their on the bus before we went to Toledo, but the bus is crowded, stops all the time, and smells, so we did a little geography and found out that the metro is relatively easy to take as well. Assuming you can find the station. Mark and William were doubting my directional skillz and were convinced we were going the wrong direction...until we asked someone who told us we were going exactly the right direction. Bingo, 30 minutes later we were there. The metro really isn't much better than the bus, but seeing as we have to make the round trip commute at least 4 times a week every little bit counts. Our school, Fundación José Ortega y Gasset is tiny, its an old mansion and then one other building. The mansion houses the library and the important peoples offices, and all of our classes and everything we really have to partake in take place in the other, less awesome building.

I am taking 4 classes, and am done every day at 12:30. Which would be cool in America, but seeing as they dont sleep until...never, I would much rather start at 12:30 and forfeit a siesta for some real sleep. That being said, my weekend does begin at 12:30 on Thursday so I can't complain too much. On Mondays and Wednesdays I have Advanced Grammar and Conversation, Culture and Civilization on Tu/Th, and Political History of Spain on Thursdays...all in Spanish. Fortunately I can understand all of my teachers and my classes are relatively interesting too, so the school part of the semester is going to be a positive aspect (it seems) and not get in the way of positive aspects hahaha. The homework load is enough that you still realize you are in school but not miserable. Overall, no complaints.

Conversation and culture are more or less the same class...except for that one day where we had a lecture about stereotypes of women and why they arent as common in the workplace... and there are only 3 guys in the class. It turned into a discussion of fashion vocabulary. The power of numbers. I also thought it was funny when the only stereotypes brought up were all extremely positive (independent, sensitive, those types)... there were 3 tongues bitten in that class.

Now....time for OKTOBERFEST this weekend. Plenty of pictures and hopefully videos to come.