July 28, 2008

My internet disappeared so theses may be fewer and far between. I just returned home from a long day of orientation. I arrived at the school to take an oral placement test. This test went okay. It was just a conversation with a teacher. We had a couple hours to kills and so I and a friend went for a walk…a very long walk. We found this pedestrian street that was packed with people. The streets are pretty hazardous here…if I am not walking in a hole, tripping on a loose cobble stone, I am stepping in doggie land mines (as a fellow student who studied here called them), not to mention the hordes of people. A bit overwhelming to say the least. An argentine lady asked me for direction when I was waiting outside a store…I must be beginning to blend in. After the test my friend and I walked around probably for about 3 hours and ended up at this tenedor libre (directly translated free fork but means all you can eat buffet) vegetarian place. It was pretty good and either of us wanted to get up again due to the excessive amounts of walking. We managed to haul ourselves back to the school only to enjoy 4 or so hours of lecture on the normas or rules of the program and begin the explanation on the registration process. It is mind boggling. The university system is almost the opposite of our system, in many respects. I have arrived home, exhausted, hungry and a bit miffed that the internet I was borrowing decided to disappear. Until tomorrow.