My First Class

Well, I survived my first Argentine class. My professors name is Elbio Rodriguez and the class is investigacion de mercado. It´s a business class and luckily, there are a lot of words in the business field that are cognates, and of the 10 or so he used, I was able to pick out. Other than that, I didn´t get a whole else! haha..He did give us a website that we have to go to and print some materials out for a TEST next Thursday. So, that should be interesting. I´ve printed the materials, so I hopefully, I´ll understand them by Thursday. Students don´t use books here, they use ¨fotocopias¨ apparently, they don´t really pay attention to copy right laws. But you have to buy the photocopies when you start the class, then the materials that I printed today are just supplemental readings. I´m not sure if I will stay in this class or not; it depends on my other classes and how they all schedule with each other and if I can get to them on time. The class today was downtown, about a 5 minute walk from my apartment, but the public university where the majority of my classes are is about a 25 minute bus ride-trolly ride. It will be tough. But the Professor was nice, he introduced me to the class twice, which was mortifying. But no one laughed or gawked too much. One girl, Romina, came up to me afterwards and told me in brock English that she speaks spanish and didn´t understand much that he said, haha..isn´t that comforting? Oh well. It was definitely an interesting experience. I was able to scribble down some complete sentences and a few key points (i think) and looked up some words I didn´t know. Some of the words I thought I heard, didn´t exist, so, maybe I´ll catch them next time! haha
So, I´ve been watching a lot of tv, probably too much, (but it´s so easy to do considering dinner isn´t until 9:30 and I´m usually out of stuff to do by 5 or so) but I was able to watch Latin American Idol!! Unfortunately, it doesn´t have English subtitles, but you really don´t need to know what they are saying because like the American one, you can hear who is good and who is terrible. It is pretty hilarious, and I think it either comes on tonight or tomorrow. It´s getting close to the end. It´s funny how closely the judges resemble the American judges. The ¨Paula¨ is totally made up and glamorous, the ¨Simon¨ is metro and clearly opinionated, then they have the ¨bigger guy¨ who´s funny and makes jokes, etc. Anyway, I thought I would share. Talk to you later!