- Grammar: Advanced B to be precise... it sounds great and all, but my grammatical knowledge does not correspond with my speaking knowledge. The real kicker is when I mess up when telling someone I'm in "advanzado b," its such an oxymoron haha. But thats why I'm taking....
- Oral Production! It only meets once a week, but its sole purpose is to become more comfortable talking and enhance the fluidity of speech. Its also cool because we have a guy from Denmark, a guy from Italy, a girl from Turkey, and a girl from Japan in the class as well. Kind of depressing when you know they have three languages down (they all know English as well as Spanish) and I'm still struggling with the second, but its still cool to have different cultures represented... plus we get some pretty funny cross-cultural discussions going in class too.
- Latin American Film: I love movies! So I'm obviously looking forward to the rest of this class. We've watched two Argentine films so far: El Tiempo de los Valientes, and Los Paranoicos. They were both funny and entertaining, but Los Paranoicos appealed to me the most, it was quirky, humorous, and had a great ending, I definitely plan on re-watching it. Its so refreshing to watch quality films that don't come from the US, it makes you realize how many great films we Yankees miss out on... entertainment actually exists outside of Hollywood!!! I'm also looking forward to El Secreto de Tus Ojos, which won best foreign film at the Oscars in 2010, and one of my favorite movies, Cidade de Deus (City of God).
- Argentina: An Open Society: I chose this class as a personal goal to be more well rounded... I thought it would be important/valuable to learn about the history and politics of Argentina and their social effects on the nation. It will probably be my most challenging class, but also potentially the most interesting. I'm excited to branch out from literature/grammar classes. And last, but not least...
- Tango!!! This is my favorite so far, pretty much because one out of the two days of classes is devoted to learning the dance! I'm sure it will be at least semi-intersting to learn about the history of the dance, it has such a huge meaning for Argentina after all, but the dancing is fun! However, I also found out that my class will be doing a group performance at International Student night... This means that I have to dance a dance that I do not yet know in front of all the foreign exchange students (including all my friends I've made).... should be interesting, and by that I mean hysterical.
All of my classes are taught in Spanish, so hopefully I'll just keep on slowly (but surely) improving my Spanish skillz. Also, classes are only Mondays-Thursdays so I'll be able to keep up my perfect attendance at the free Pub Crawls on Thursdays :)
Other noteworthy things I did last week:
- Went to this really awesome drumming performance by a group called La Bomba. They had about 15 different people working percussion instruments and it was soooo good!! They would just make up songs right there through hand motions and just keep building up the beats. I went with a bunch of my girl friends and we all ended up jumping around in this ridiculous mosh pit... good times. Definitely plan on going back.
- Managed to lose my phone, I think/want to think that it was pick-pocketed. Its actually pretty likely that it was since I heard about five other girls that got pick-pocketed at the same place on the same night.
- Went to Chinatown again, ordered what I thought would be a delicious bowl of vegetables with shrimp, but turns out vegetables just means a shit ton of boiled cabbage sprinkled with shrimp haha. Next time I'll just stick to fried rice...
I guess thats all for now, maybe I'll actually start studying seeing as I literally have no more excuses to procrastinate...
Chau!
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