Wednesday, July 23, 2008

1st day of classes


So, I´ve actually been in classes for 2 full days now, but everything is still pretty new to me. The PUCP campus is kind of strange because every building looks entirely different, strange in-bred deer (like 1-horned and 1-eyed ones) roam around the campus, and there are a lot of students considering it´s winter break. At least campus is very easy to find and pretty easy to navigate once you´re on it (and each building looking different definitely helps). Despite having only taken 1 Spanish class in college, I placed in the most advanced level. My class has 5 other students in it, and we have 4 different professors that rotate. Class meets in 3 blocks from 9-11, 11-1, and 1:30-3:30, so I get pretty antsy throughout the course of the day, but I know that it´s helping me brush off some of the rust on my Spanish skills, learn new vocabulary, and practice my terrible pronunciation. The coolest thing we´ve done so far is read an article with different slang words- for example, if something se pone it´s satisfying, if you mete flores you´re basically making stuff up, and if you´re a chancón (interestingly enough from Sean Connery) you´re a really hard-working student.

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