I apologize for my lack of communication over the last week or so. Last week was rather uneventful until Thursday. Students with the last names beginning with A-H had to go to the Oracion de Uruguay. We left at 4 am from the bus depot and didnt get back until after 5 pm. It took us a good three hours to get to this tiny little arm-pit of a town. It had a Shell station, a creepy hostel, and this cute little pastry shop that had coffee and WiFi. We had to wait for a long time for the office to process our paper work. I had to retake a picture for something but I'm not sure what. Not everyone that came with us was able to pick up their visas. I have mine and don't have to go back, that's all that matters.
There is a basketball tournament going on at the gym in the villa (town outside of the UAP gate). The ACA girls and the ACA boys formed teams and are competing in our respective sides. I'm on the ACA girls team and we won both our games Saturday night. There was a buy in of $80 pesos. We all contributed and there is supposed to be a small cash prize if we win. It's been fun so far. I've been pretty sore the last couple days but other than that it's been pretty good.
On Friday we got our class schedules. I have class 8:30-4:30 on Monday with an hour break for lunch, 1:30-6:30 Tuesday, 10:30-1:30 (I think) Wednesday, nothing on Thursday, and 8:30-11:30 on Friday. Not a bad schedule. I'm in the intermediate level which right now is seeming to be too easy and stuff I already know. I have 2 weeks to decide whether I should move up a level or stay where I am. I can't decide which I should be doing. Composition class was very easy today. Our professor is actually the grandmother of one of my classmates from highschool which was cool. The grammar teacher was nice, I liked her. But everything we discussed today, I already knew. My elective classes were a whole other story. I don't know if it was because I was so tired from being in class all morning, or because I'd just had lunch, or what the issue was, but I didnt understand anything all afternoon. I have two classes in the afternoon on Mondays: Current Events and Folklore. Current Events was very confusing and I have no idea what we're doing in the class. I do know that I don't have any homework. I think we're supposed to be keeping journals about something, but I dont know what. But Just incase, I picked up 2 journals from the supermercado when I went to pick up a few things this afternoon. Folklore was frustrating. The professor talked too slow. I can't understand spanish if it's very fast, but if it's too slow I end up getting lost with trying to remember what she said at the beginning. By the end of the class, everyone was annoyed and frustrated with her.
After class, a few of us went to the supermercado and the post office. I mailed a letter to WAU and will hopefully have time to write a few more to some people soon. I came back to my room and did all of my homework that was assigned today. I've been really bored so I was glad to finally have to real work to do. However, all of my classes I had homework in only meet on Mondays. And as we have another holiday this coming Monday, I won't have to turn anything in for 2 more weeks. This is good because I won't forget, but expect for Grammar class I won't have anything to really work on for 2 weeks. I'm thinking about doing the beginning exercises in the Composition textbook we skipped over but I'm not sure how far ahead I really want to get.
Tonight I'm just relaxing, reading a little, and will probably go to bed early. We have another 2 games in the basketball tournament tomorrow night so I'll need to be well rested and hydrated for them. The gym was really hot on Saturday night and I felt kind of sick after our first game. Since I don't have class on Thursday I'm planning on doing some laundry and going to the library (where the internet is hopefully faster) and upload my pictures from the last 3 weeks.
Until something else exciting happens, God bless.
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