With my program, I get to take classes at any of the 4 universities here. There's a "shopping" period until the end of August, where I can sign up for a bunch of classes, try them, and drop the ones I don't want to take. It's pretty cool, but it makes for pretty long days when you're trying 3 classes in a day, all at different universities. I've tried a myriad of classes - literature, psychology, cinema, and sociology. I wanted to take linguistics classes, but to get credit I'd need to take classes that are a higher level, and would therefore be pretty much impossible to understand in Spanish. I've found a couple classes that I like so far, but I'm going to keep trying them and then decide!
It's definitely a bit of a struggle taking classes in Spanish. Most of the time I understand most of what the professor is saying, but I took a class today where he spoke so quickly - there were a few other exchange students in the class, and they were all as lost as I was. However, I think I'll quickly adjust to it.
I've met several Argentines in my classes that have been super helpful. They've noticed how lost I (and other exchange students) have felt at times, and have offered to help with whatever we need.
After a super long week full of classes, I got to enjoy a 3 day weekend (no class on Fridays, woo!). One day, I explored San Telmo with some friends. I went there the weekend before for their festival, and we wanted to see what it was like on a normal day. There were a bunch of antique stores and mercados that were really neat!
On Saturday, I went to El Museo de Humor (the Museum of Humor) in Puerto Madero with some friends. We wandered around forever trying to find it, thinking that the humor is that the museum actually doesn't exist! We eventually found it though, and were a bit surprised. We were expecting humor like jokes, puns, and the like, but it was all political cartoons. Interesting, definitely, but when you don't know many specifics about Argentine history, they don't make sense. However, it was a beautiful day so afterwards we just wandered around for a while. In the evening, we went to a Peña Folklórico, where they had traditional folk music and dancing. It was really interesting to watch the dancing, and the music was very cool!
This week I'm continuing with classes, and starting with homework (unfortunately). There are festival days on Thursday and Monday, though, so I have a 5 day weekend, which I'm looking forward to! So much exploring to do, and I think I'm going to (finally) tango!
Here are some pictures from my week:
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