School, free time, and so much sleep

Hola mom, dad, mom's friends, and others!

This past week has been long and exhausting, but fun nonetheless. I've started my normal routine of classes, and the majority of them seem to be alright but I definitely still feel like my Spanish might actually be getting worse. For example, last tuesday I went to Psicologia de la ninez y adolescence (psychology of childhood and adolescence) a class that I was excited to take, but knew it had the potential to be a little hard. So I arrived at 3:30 and stood outside in the midst of thirty or so other chileans until the teacher finally arrived and opened the door. We all walked in and I sat down in what I thought could be a "neutral seat" (I don't want to be the american that rushes to the front row, but I know that sitting in the back row would get me no where) and the classroom slowly filled up and I quickly found that I was the only foreign student in a class of 40. No one really looked at me, which I guess was good because I mean with my blonde hair, freckles, and light blue patagonia fleece it could not have been more obvious that I was an American. Class started and I think I might have understood about 3% of what was going on... I'd hear something that sounds familiar like "centro de neveriousa" and get excited and write it down in my notebook but then I realized I didn't have anything else to write. At some points I thought that kind of knew what was going on, but then everyone would start writing furiously so I just kind of drew pictures and wrote things with huge question marks next to it. After class (it was supposed to be 3 hours but it was only 2 and a half for the first day wahoooo) I decided to go up to the teacher and ask him if he had ever had foreign students in his class... I have absolutely no idea what his answer was. I think he might of said yes, but it's hard and I wont be able to help because there are a lot of students, but he also could of said no, but I will be able to help... I just nodded my head because I wanted to leave that classroom ASAP. I never want/will never to go back to that class ever again and am planning on meeting with my academic advisor tomorrow.

All of my other classes have been alright and throughout the day I do have a lot of free time which is usually filled with facebook, skype, starbucks, or naps. I've been sleeping so late here! This weekend my average wake up time was around 1:30pm and it's perfectly acceptable to sleep that late, which at first I didn't know so I'd set my alarm to wake up at 10:30 so I could shower and get ready for the day, but then I'd walk outside my room and find that everyone was still sleeping, (including my parents sometimes) so I'd just go back to bed.

This weekend my history class was cancelled again so on Thursday I had a long day at starbucks and the mall and then Friday I went out to dinner and had the best quesadillas ever and then went to this club 89 which is all glass and right on the ocean! Last night I went to see El Origen (Inception) which was great and luckily it was all in English but with Spanish subtitles. It's been a pretty lazy weekend, which I really needed, but I hope it doesn't become a habit because my friends and I seem to sleep through the whole day sometimes and tomorrow morning I have to get up at 8am for my photo class so wish me luck with that one. Next weekend we might go skiing, which would be awesome!

Te extranoooooo (i miss you) and talk to you later!

xoxo