We have officially started school!

After some serious struggling with selecting the courses, we've picked 3 good ones. We had to change one of the courses since the professor didn't quite understand that we are not native spanish speaking people, and our beggings that he would speak a little bit slower didn't get to his head. So that was for the international negociations. As we were looking for other courses to replace this one we were happy to discover that our school actually does have courses in English, unlike we were previously informed. So off we are tomorrow to a course about the US' cultural issues. Our other courses here are wednesday mornings Historia del Argentina del Siglo XX (20th Century history of Argentina.. duh!) and Gestión Hotelera (Hotel management) on thursday mornings. And since the USA course is on friday mornings, we hardly have opportunities to party during the week. Or at least party and sleep...

So now that we started with school let's tell all about it! Or at least something.. Going to school in the morning is really weird. At the subway station Independencia (right next to our school) there's a huge amount of young people rushing out of the station over the street to our school's doors. And by huge amount I mean hundreds. Crazy. We have student cards that we use to enter the building and due to the rush we have to wait in line to get in. And after that we have to wait in line to get to one of the 8 elevators. We have already gotten used to taking the stairs 4 floors up since the elevators are hardly an option with the other two hundred people wanting to use them in the morning.


We have 3 hrs 15 min of class per day. That includes a more or less half an hour break (mañana mañana...). On the break it's possible to get some refreshments from one of the many cafés in our school. If you are willing to wait in line. Again. All the classes have breaks at the same time, so a queu with 50 people is pretty normal. Luckily we have coffee and coke machines on every floor to cheer us up with a great 40cents coke bottle!

So much for school, we're still to find out what is in the mysterious -4 floor of the school...
We'll probably have some more stories after the weekend as Anni and Päivi will be having their house warming party on saturday. And hopefully some party pictures!