Well, today wasn't so bad. It wasn't so great either. Well, this morning at 8 a.m. I had my Quechua class. It's really interesting because it's a linguistics class. So my teacher was showing us how he was going to break down the language. Apparently there are a bunch of different dialects and some of them can't even communicate with each other, so it's like another language. We're going to learn the Cuzco dialect. They have some sounds that they don't have in castellano (or English), but they're not too difficult to say. My teacher is from Puno, and I thought he was from the Southern Highlands when I saw him. I had an hour break where I tried figuring out how to obtain my school books. I think I checked out the wrong one, so I have to go to school early tomorrow to see if they have the right one and then read it before my first class. So, I went to class at 11. I think, for me, I shouldn't have any classes between the hours of 12 and 5. I can have class before 12 and 5 or later, but I seem to be more tired and less fresh between 12 and 5. My second class was Contemporary Peruvian Narrative. This class seems to disappoint me a little because it seems like it's going to be boring. I don't know. It just might be that today was the first day, but my teacher didn't seem to be going anywhere with his lecture, he seemed like he was just talking about literature. I am excited for later when we get to Mario Vargas Llosa. He's the most famous Peruvian author. Like, ever. The subjects look like they will be interesting, but we'll see how the lectures go. I kept zoning out but that also had to do with I was so tired. I seem to be really tired lately. I don't know if it's I'm not getting enough sleep or if it's my diet or both, but I have been just so incredibly tired the last week or so. I should have taken a ten minute powernap after lunch. I didn't think I'd have time because it usually takes me a while to eat, but I was done with 30 minutes before I needed to go to my last class, so tomorrow I'll do that. It's cool, on classes when I have classes in the afternoon, I have time in between to have lunch, so I never need to bring my lunch to school. I discovered today, that it takes me exactly 30 minutes to walk from the house to my class which means I get at least an hour of walking every day, which totally rocks. So, I had my last class at 3. I'm so not dropping this class, lol. All we do is watch movies and then take time to discuss them in class. Just like, what we thought of the movie. Today we watched
The Lives of Others. Which was cool because I've been wanting to see that movie. We didn't discuss it because we didn't have time. In all 3 of my classes today, there were lots of exchange students. In my film class, my teacher told us that if we exchange students didn't want to talk in class, we could write a two page paper and turn it in the following week. F that noise, I'm going to participate in class. That's what I'm there for, right? Oh! It was so funny. I'm glad I'm as good I am at Spanish because the movie was in German, and the subtitles were in Spanish, lol. It worked. I had little problems. But I needed a powernap or coffee or something, lol.
Today was one of the boys' birthdays. So, we had a normal dinner. Me and 3 of the boys ate. (Natalie and Katie cook for themselves and Catalin and Sebastian were in class) After Daniel (the birthday boy) finished, we sang and he blew out his candle. Chela had a cake for him. Dude's 19! Yes! Someone younger than me, lol. I'm not the baby anymore. I've been the youngest person I've met on this trip so far. Daniel's one of the guys from Cuzco. We sang happy birthday in English and Spanish. They do that here. I love that so many people live with Carlos and Chela. There are 8 of us all together, and we're getting one more girl in mid-April. I usually always have someone who either is there when I get there or who comes while I'm eating. I love my roommates. They're all so nice and so fun.
And apparently my schedule seems so packed because it is. I'm taking more units than I'm permitted to take at Cal State without permission. I mean, I don't need permission here to take so many units, but that's why. It seems like I'm taking a lot because I am, lol. Because the units are the same here as they are at Cal State. I don't think I want to drop any of my classes. I don't know, I might drop Contemporary Peruvian Narrative, but I would need to find a back-up, and I don't know where I would do that, and I don't think any other literature class would be too different. I guess what's mostly throwing me off is the teachers don't have textbooks. I sent an e-mail to my companero today to ask him how it works because I've asked people, and I'm still confused. Arg! The only thing I don't like. The campus is so pretty though. Sad to say, but better than the Long Beach campus.
This is a video I took at the park last Thursday.
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