Chasing classes

Despite this being my first week of classes, I'll only have had one! Yesterday I went to Contemporary Chilean Literature. I really enjoyed it--the professor seems engaging and interesting. It was revealing too--you can tell he's religious and more conservative just by the way he talks. We were going around the class quickly stating "what we want most in life" and he got to one girl who was slowly talking (it was a Butler class only, so you get a lot of spanish stuttering) and basically filled in for her--"of course, she wants to get married! and have children and a family!" I know had more of my friends been sitting around, or had we been at Oberlin College, hands would have shot back to say "Hey! You can't assume that's what we want!! I never want to get married!!"(**This quote was directly taken from a few at a table of my closest friends during our vacation weekend in Fire Island in May/June this year. Ha. )

But my first Spanish class was cancelled because the professor has influenza :-(

And this morning I took a nice walk to a Political and Social History of Latin America class at another university, University of Valparaiso, in the Sociology department. It will clash with a history class i want to take at Catolica, but those don't start until Monday, so i thought i'd check this one out. But alas, the attachment of the schools schedule was wrong and i walked all the way there to find it actually meets tomorrow. I'm not sure about it. I didn't want classes on Fridays, and its a 3 hour straight class, bleh! I also got to meet a girl from Belgium while i was there! She was also a bit lost with classes (and spanish!)

So monday hopefully they all go smoothly and actually start!

My walk back from the university was nice though. I came across a museum, this beautiful mansion surrounded by a really nice park. And I went to this perfect little used book store! The man in the shop greeted me right away and i talked to him about how i wanted some simpler novels. I came away with two, spent about 8 bucks (i thought they could have been a BIT cheaper). One i'm really excited about, the other not sure, but he recommended it so i thought i'd go for it. This will give me something to do today, with all this free time!

As of right now, I don't feel like I'm immersed in Spanish enough. Here I am writing away in English! It feels like everywhere i go i'm speaking in english. gah. That's also why i got the books. Hopefully once the semester gets going and i make chilean friends it will be better.