3 days of film, woot!

Tuesday, nothing exciting happened. I had class in the morning and nothing the rest of the day. I had another quiz in Quechua, and I did better, but not great. I went to the library to get my Quechua book. One thing led to another and I ended up checking my school e-mail for the first time in 3 weeks and apparently my teacher has been sending us e-mails telling us what's on the quizzes. fml. Well, now I know what will be for sure on the next one.

Yesterday was so awesome! In Film History we had a substitute (which wasn't awesome, I like our teacher), but we watched Birth of a Nation by David W. Griffith. It's a very famous black & white, 3-hour, silent film from 1915. It's in "the book," so not only have I heard of it before, but I've seen it. I got more out of it this time, so I'm glad I did see it again. The teacher talked about the film's place in history or whatever, but he didn't mention that the actors who play the black characters are white dudes in make-up. I find that to be a very interesting and important part of film history. Like in Shakespeare's time when white dude's even played the parts of the women. I still enjoyed the film. During the film, I realized that the rest of the class was having a different experience than I was having. This is a piece of my country's history (a very intimate piece even). I had no idea how my classmates were feeling or what they thought of the film. I think I'll ask someone next week. The girl sitting next to me though fell asleep halfway through. (I guess I don't blame her, on one level it's boring, but I love it) That's my favorite class so far, but I'll probably say that about the next one, lol. Then literature was normal.

Today wasn't that exciting either. I went to class, and we ended the class by translating long sentences, and I was proud of myself when I learned that I could. Nuqa huk t'anta Pedrop wawkinman mikhuypaq quni. (Doy un pan al hermano de Pedro para comer.) Afterwards, I sat outside the church and wrote down my sins in Spanish so I could go to confession. I went to the little church on campus, and not only could I find no confessional, but I could find no priest. I'll go again on Tuesday and try again. So then I went to the communications department to wait for my group because we were going to give the screenplay to our teacher. While I waited, I talked with another group of students. They spoke quickly with me, but all-in-all I could understand them and respond quickly as well. I surprised myself in that way today. I also was able to talk quickly as well during film class. Apparently I didn't "grasp it all" but I was proud that I could communicate. That pissed me off because in the first class the teacher said there wasn't a wrong answer. I hate when teachers do that. Well, only one member of my group showed up, and we couldn't print the screenplay, so a little afternoon I left. Then had class and the rest of my day was uninteresting. Sunday is election day so only a few more days. Today there was like some kind of closing ceremony that I watched on the TV. Oh! I forgot! I watched La Betty Fea during dinner. I had a little trouble getting into it because I didn't know which actor was which character (except for Betty). Once I figured that out, I was good to go. And the Mode office looked similar to the American one. I was glad I caught that.