First Day With My Host Mother

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Woke up and met with my soon to be professors today. Also took the Spanish placement test and ended up in the second year level, exactly where I wanted to be. After the test, we all met our host families. I am going to be living with a Cristina Pellejero for the next three months. She seems like a nice woman. We spent a couple hours talking in Spanish and I was extremely happy with how well we were able to communicate with eachother. There were still many words that I didn´t understand, but we were able to work out the spots where we couldn´t understand eachother.

She lives in a section of the city that is very close to the river parana and I am very excited to go to the river again tomorrow and walk up and down it. However, before I can do that, I have classes at 9 AM tomorrow morning. I will be taking 4 different classes here: a spanish conversation class, a spanish grammar class, a peace and conflict resolution class, and a global justice class. I met my peace and conflict resolution and global justice professor today and he tells me that I am his only student in the global justice class and that there are 5 other students in the peace and conflict class. He wants to make the global justice class less formal now since I am the only one in it. He says we will most likely discuss issues over a cup of coffee or something similar. However, he doesn´t know how much we will get done early in the classes as all of his textbooks were confiscated at the border by customs, most likely for their content.

I was unable to get wireless internet in my room in the apartment, so I am currently writing in a small internet cafe down the street from the apartment. I am still very surprised at how little things cost here. A half hour on this computer is going to cost me about 2.5 pesos, or about 50 cents. I have two minutes left even though i started maybe about 20 minute ago... Ah Argentina.

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