Today was my first day of classes! As per usual, I awoke at 7 in order to leave the apartment at 8 for my ridiculous commute. (And here I thought my ten-minute sprint to class last semester was a trek).
My daily commute to school is something like this:
Leave the apartment and walk 3 short blocks to the metro. [I like to pretend this part takes 5 minutes, but by the time I call the elevator, go downstairs, enter the metro and actually make it onto the platform, it’s more like ten.] Then I go two stops, and transfer to a different line. This one’s always crowded and so here’s where my mastery of climbing huge amounts of stairs comes in handy since the escalator is just a giant mess. It takes about 5 minutes to switch/ however long it takes for the metro to arrive. Then it’s 7 stops [this is about 15 minutes] to the closest stop to school, followed by a 10-minute walk. It’s quite the morning.
Anyway, classes. I had three today – Art History, Contemporary Spanish History, and Spanish. Although Spanish seems kind of redundant given the fact that my whole day is conducted in Spanish. Nevertheless that professor seems cool and promises us that we’ll be bilingual and have the ability to speak completely grammatically correctly by the end of the semester. Plus, it’s the class I thought I’d be in. (It turns out I was in the highest class during my orientation, right below native speakers… so it’s nice to be somewhere where I actually have equivalent abilities!) The history class was a little bit of lecture, which was actually easier than I thought since he wrote all the important things on the board anyway. Art History was just reading the syllabus but we have our first class in the Museo del Prado on Wednesday! Tomorrow I have my political science, but I’m pretty sure I’m not going to get Colgate credit for it, so I need to find something else to take! Also, it doesn’t seem like I’m going to have a ton of homework… I’m afraid I’ll forget how to do school senior year! Oh no!
¿Qué más? Nothing really. It’s extremely bizarre to not really be able to use the kitchen (except the microwave) but I finally bought some sandwich stuff so that I can stop spending quite so much money on lunch! Also, I have yet to really see raw vegetables as any part of the diet here, which is extremely weird to me.
Most importantly – I’m going to Paris for the weekend! I can’t wait!
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