nuestra clase de espanol

This morning we got up and went to Spanish. Ben and Monica were able to get out of the class and are taking an independent study class instead. Tom and I decided to stay in the class because I think the independent study will be a lot of work and will take up a lot more time than Spanish. We would learn a new computer program but I don't think I will benefit a whole lot from it. So we decided to stick with the easy A. I am frustrated because I do want to learn more Spanish but a higher level Spanish isn't offered. It is only this or no Spanish. I haven't learned anything new really. It is all the same stuff I learned my first couple years of Spanish. It is good I guess because I never had a strong foundation in Spanish from the beginning. I learned the alphabet last week and that actually was new material for me. We have just been going over greeting people and occupations and basic conversation stuff. I will learn because she only speaks Spanish to us. Which is what I don't understand. She only speaks Spanish and we understand what she is saying, but she is still teaching us the alphabet and how to count up to 100. I will cover all the basics in the class so I guess I shouldn't complain since I never learned all the basics. It is just the metro money and travel time that gets to me, but it would be the same money and time if I were to do the independent study. We went to lunch in the school cafeteria after class, which was a lot better than our school's cafeteria food. We were planning on bringing lunches but we didn't have time to go shopping for lunch the night before because we got out of studio so late.

After lunch Brian and I walked around the University and then too the architecture building. We went to an empty classroom, laid down on the tables, and closed our eyes for like an hour so we could get through history. I woke up to a Spanish lady laughing at us in the doorway. She walked away when I lifted up my head. Class started 20 minutes late (no one is ever in a hurry over here). The same PhD Architect professor who was our guest lecturer last week came back to finish his lecture from last week about the development of the city. We all came back to the apartment after class and are now getting ready for our group dinner. We are having the other apartment over tonight for our weekly group dinner. Rob and Ben are making fish (2 nights in a row...we like fish). Rob bought a whole fish yesterday at the supermarket and the guy caught the head off it and sliced it up using a ban saw. It was pretty funny. He brought home a cut up fish in a plastic bag. I am sure it will be good.

After dinner tonight Monica and I are going to work on the analysis of our 3 plazas for Phase 1 of the project (she is my partner for Phase 1). We will probably have to go to studio to do it, but we'll see.