universitaria

so i am sitting here in one of the three libraries on Campus San Joaquín of Universidad Católica, waiting for my first ever university class in Chile, which starts at 10, and i thought it might be a good idea to kill some time by actually WRITING in this thing. haha. a word of warning, i pretty much hate capitalization and do it infrequently at best, so if that bothers you, my apologies in advance. anyway, today is my first day of classes and i am hoping it will go well. i spent the night at my cousin antonia´s house (no apostrophes on international keyboards) last night because she has classes on this same campus. we are even going to have one together! her classes start at 8:30, so we had to wake up at about 6:45, which was not so wonderful, but it was nice to have someone to ride the metro with and to talk to, instead of passing the time staring blankly and inadvertently at strangers, wondering if they can tell i´m a gringa. even though i did the whole micro/metro thing with lester yesterday, i was still kind of nervous about finding my way around on my own today, so i am glad that i had antonia to show me around. my first class is about indigenous chilean art, and i am hoping i will like it, because there aren´t many other classes in that time block that i am interested in. then at 11:30 i have chilean anthropology with antonia. after that i have to switch to another campus that is in downtown santiago, but it is very easy to connect to with the metro. at 3 i have a class on radio narration, and at 4:30 a photojournalism class, which i am not sure i will keep because, as much as i like photojournalism, the class doesn´t end until 5:50, and i have always hated late classes. besides, i am thinking of taking a spanish class, provided that i test into the "perfeccionamiento" level (which i am not sure i will) because that it is the only level that is taught at a time that won´t interefere with my other classes.well, antonia got out of class early and just came and surprised me in the library, so i think i will go for now. i hope everyone is doing well. sorry for all the run-on sentences haha. only a few more days until i am "solita" and it´s quite a bittersweet feeling.

so much for frequent updates

so maybe i am not so good at this blog thing, but i do love taking pictures, so i will just share those. these three albums are of my trip to los angeles, a day playing in the snow, and some around the neighborhood and of my grandma's birthday. some of them may still lack captions, but keep checking back, they will be up eventually.
and i do plan on actually writing a real entry some day. hope everyone is well!

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