Yeah, that's right I totally can't believe it myself, today I am already here for 2 month, doesn't it sound sooo crazy and very long??? but it kind of isn't. And life really got me now. Two weeks ago the new semester started and since then so many things have been happening.
(Britta & Carmen alias Amanda)
I have 5 different courses now and they are all in spanish. After monday isn't really my day I decided not to take any classes that day, means I am starting out every tuesday around noon with Organizational Behaviour, which is really a great class, the only thing is this Professor is really, really talking fast, so I usually don't understand much in class, but I am getting better, another little disturbing thing or lets just say I am not used to it anymore, we have to read for this class every week 2 chapters in the book and also have cases and articles to work through and then at least once a week is a test to it, the bad thing is even if you read it, but you didn't really get what its about, you have no chance... but I decided I will manage somehow :D like always. Then later on tuesdays I have my chilean culture class, that's kind of learning spanish over topics like history, economics, politics and so on... we will see how it goes, we just had it once till now and it was nice, but the teacher also seemed a bit strange. That's my whole tuesday at 8 in the evening I am finished. After the big workload all over I decided it's better to have good breaks, so wednesday is my study day, where I review everything for my thursday classes and read a lot... we will see how this great idea works out. Thursday then is my longest day I packed it kind of. In the morning, that means 9.45 I start with Psycology, which I think is a great class, the professor is really nice and it'S fun being there, also if I only understand like have of that what is said, soon it will be more so. After a short lunch break, where I go home to eat, so nice walk 5 houses up the street or the hill of street and you are home and get lunch :D, I have Orga Behaviour again, at least there are other exchange students in there too. First time we had to search for our thursday room it is not so easy, because the entrance for it is actually not in the building, it is outside, on the backside of the building, a bit hidden, but that's what you need to know first. But anyways found it and at least still kind of on time, here somehow is the rule, 5 minutes late and you can't join anymore and every class they check names if everybody is there, you miss a few classes, you fail. So after this one I was actually going to take Negotiation and Conflict Management, but after sitting in one time, it was just too boring, after I heard a lot of the stuff tought already in other courses, so I wanted to switch, but it was really not easy to find anything suitable, which didn't fall on other classes, because most things are at the same time as spanish, which I totally need or they don't work out with my friday class. So I just took the easiest decision and kind of one and only option anyways and switched into Stefans Modern Political Theories class, which is long not one of the easiest, but pretty interesting. At the moment we are discussing Skinner. Half of the time it's kind of class discussion, which is hard to follow, but we will also catch up on that one. Thursday evening I can tell you, you are just happy to be done and can'T wait for friday to come and be over as well. Fridays then I chose to take development economics, which is really interesting so far and also good to understand, the professor always has ppts and lots of examples and so on which make my life easier :D This class is afternoon filling and then it's suddenly or more finally weekend.
(great new friends)
Actually I guess everybody should go out by that time, but I didn't feel like it today. I kind of, no idea how, caught a cold yesterday. All in all that fits to my not too good week so. I mean it should have been good after not having lectures before thursday because tuesday and wednesday afternoon were of f because of first semester activities. The story is like this so. Monday was still ok just a lot of reading, tuesday started out fine as well, but then it started. In the afternoon was this first semester event , where I didn't go to so. It was somewhere out of the city, with a big field, a pool and apparently a stage, but no idea, Stefan went and said it was nice. The next day so we heard that some student got hurt at the pool and was in the hospital, what you hear, he is paralized and will be disabled, that was really shocking to hear, the next morning the had a big thing at the university build up, kind of like church for an hour outside in front of the buildings. Back to tuesday night so, in the evening was also a party for the first semesters in a club in our neighbor city. We went to eat some Pizza first with the Australiens, we were so stuffed afterwards, so we just stayed at there place for another hour and then went to the club. When we arrived after a little bus ride, we still had to walk for a bit and it was so wierd, we just walked by some buildings and the one had the door open and of course the guys wanted to go in, I am sooo happy they didn't, cause when we were right at the doorstep and adjusted our eyes to the dark, we saw it's not really going in anymore, it's only going down down down, so it was like and old building only the outside walls left and nothing then darkness inside. I finally got everybody to go to the club, but they said they wanna go back later on, I was so happy that they forgor about it, after it really looked very dangerous. When we arrived at the club it was nice, but it was interesting, I mean everywhere here everybody needs to show there ID to come in, but there they also searched you and you purse. It was really great, it looked like an old fabric building which was turned into a club with different areas. We started out going on the roof, from there you had a great view and just a few minutes later the dance instructor came, up there was the Salsa area, which was fun. The guys went right away and tried and I took pictures, later on when the others came we were really trying so :D with more or less success. Later on we went downstairs and tried out all the other areas. Around 4 or 4.30 the club closed and everybody had to go home, that's when the next step of life over here started. In front of the club were a lot of busses to bring everybody home, so we just went to them and climbed in and I was already inside but still on the steps and somebody got my purse... It was so wierd and fast, I didn't even see anybody. I had my purse in my hand and under my arm, but whoever it took, cut it, ripped really hard and was gone. But not to worry too much after I had heard that Valpo was dangerous I didn't take much, I had my keys in my pockets and in my purse was only a copy of my passport, some snacks and so on and about 400 peso, what is around 50 cents. So I am sad about my lost purse, but happy that nothing important is gone, but now I kind of say, I totally arrived in South America. The next day then I heard, I was not the only victim, two friends got their jackets stolen, in one was all the money, cell phone and key, so not so nice, but still nothing what couldn't be replaced.
(first tries in Salsa)
The story of the week doesn't end with this so, we kind of got a bill for the studyfees, I mean we don't directly have it yet, but you could say it's like in the mail, so we know we probably will have to pay next week, which will totally throw my bank account out of balance after I still didn't hear anything from germany... Life goes on so, better days will come.Yesterday night we went to another friends place, to a little housewarming, which was really nice and afterwards we had late night food at Mc Donalds and crazy Thomas spent us a Taxi ride home. Gracias ;)So that's about it from me for today. Later on Isi will come and visit, which will finally bring some noise back to the house and I have to read a lot and a lot over this weekend, about 300 or 400 pages, don't even know how to do this yet, hopefully at least my spanish will improve with this and I also have to find an internship, still don't really know what I should do, any ideas?
I hope you all are doing great, will talk to you soon, have a great weekend, I miss you all
