Okay, so good news. I'm doing a lot better than I was say, last week. Being able to talk to my mom on the phone, and most of my friends online, I'm finally getting used to being here. Maybe it's because I only wake up about once a night now due to the noise of the city, maybe because I'm wandering around with other people more. Who knows, but then again, it doesn't really matter. I think that I can do this now, which means...
That I'm no longer a TOTAL basket case. (Funny story- it makes me think of a sign I saw a while ago outside the Protestant church in New Hartford, between Zebb's and Dove Eye Center. It said "When things go wrong and everything looks bad, just remember that Moses was once a basket case." Hahahahaha still cracks me up years later...)
Anyways,
So we found out what classes are being offered in English this semester. And boy, is the way classes are taken here different than in the States. Each of your classes are held once a week, for an hour and a half. That's it. Also, you attend any classes that you might be interested in taking for the first 2 weeks, and if you decide to stay in them, you've gotta sign up with the professor to register. AND, if you don't feel like taking a final or writing a term paper, you still get half credit, just for having shown up for the class. Nice...
Thus, I'll have a lot of free time, and if I take the 3 classes I'm looking at, will have class once on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, which just 'happens' to leave loooooong weekends for travelling. :)
I'd still probably want to take the Polish for forigeners class too, which adds a class on Monday nights and another to Wednesdays. Not too bad at all...
Here's a picture I took of one of the hallways of the University. The gate is wrought iron, I believe. Wandering through its corridors, I'm amazed that this insitution has been in existence longer than our entire country. Wow.
That I'm no longer a TOTAL basket case. (Funny story- it makes me think of a sign I saw a while ago outside the Protestant church in New Hartford, between Zebb's and Dove Eye Center. It said "When things go wrong and everything looks bad, just remember that Moses was once a basket case." Hahahahaha still cracks me up years later...)
Anyways,
So we found out what classes are being offered in English this semester. And boy, is the way classes are taken here different than in the States. Each of your classes are held once a week, for an hour and a half. That's it. Also, you attend any classes that you might be interested in taking for the first 2 weeks, and if you decide to stay in them, you've gotta sign up with the professor to register. AND, if you don't feel like taking a final or writing a term paper, you still get half credit, just for having shown up for the class. Nice...
Thus, I'll have a lot of free time, and if I take the 3 classes I'm looking at, will have class once on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, which just 'happens' to leave loooooong weekends for travelling. :)
I'd still probably want to take the Polish for forigeners class too, which adds a class on Monday nights and another to Wednesdays. Not too bad at all...
Here's a picture I took of one of the hallways of the University. The gate is wrought iron, I believe. Wandering through its corridors, I'm amazed that this insitution has been in existence longer than our entire country. Wow.
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