The Trial Run

I have finally started some classes! This week the exchange students have the opportunity to attend whatever classes they want. For me, this means I'm going to as many as possible to see which Professors I can understand and if they give special treatment to gringos (gringos = tourists/white people in South America). 

Attending classes has been... interesting. No, really I have like most of my classes. I am probably going to take most of them in the general (i.e. easy) college. Peruvians start University a lot earlier than in the states, thus I am taking classes with 16 and 17 year olds. It's a little weird, but I'm too busy trying to figure out what the Professor just wrote on the board to really think about it.

I also met my very own first Peruvian friend! His name is either Jose or Juan. I can't quite remember. But he is in my Archaeology class and after class, when I had to ask what the books we passed around earlier were for he took a very confused me to the library and tried to explain. Later, we got to have an equally confusing lunch where he ate and I didn't, filled in with some awkward silences because I can't really keep an interesting conversation going in Spanish yet. Potential for lifelong friendship? Yes.

Other than that, mostly other exchange students talk to me in class. This will probably change after we all stop looking so scared and nervous. But, it is interesting to meet people from other countries too! There are a lot of people from France and Germany here too.

I'm trying not to have classes on Mondays or Fridays in order to travel on the weekends, so far I think that is going to work. I'm going to try a few more classes tomorrow and then decide this weekend what my schedule should be! 

Other things equally important as classes that happened:

1) Walking down the street to catch a combi this morning with two of my friends a man looked at us and said " Los angeles de Charlie" or, Charlie's Angels. We all have the same color hair more or less.

2) Mari and I spent 2 hours in Radio Shack with her computer. They played music from Oasis to "My Sharona". The radio shack-man said he doesn't choose the music. Mari asked me whether she should buy them cookies.

3) I had the BEST dessert twice. It is called an alfajore and is delicious! It is two pastries with manjarblanco in between. I don't know how to describe it, but google it.