La Primera dia de Colegio

So today was the first day of school. It didn't start until 12:00 noon, which was really cool because I got to sleep in, and take my time getting ready. We had thought that my class didn't start until 12:30, so one of my/Soraia's friends, Laura, was going to walk me to school, because that's when her first class started, too. But then we found out school started at noon for me, so I thought Isabel told me that Maria, one of Soraia's friends who is in my class, was going to walk me there and help me find everything. Apparently not.

I thought Isabel had told me that Maria would come get me around 11:45, and we would walk to school together. So I got ready and was waiting for Maria to buzz our apartment and tell me she was here. 11:50 came and went, and still no maria. Since my school started at noon, and it takes about ten (according to my family, 20 if you ask me..) minutes to walk there, I waited 3 more minutes and then decided to leave without her. And it's a good thing I did. Apparently Maria wasn't going to come and walk with me to school, I was going by myself... So, I got to be the weird American who was 10 minutes late to class. super.

The classroom was reeeeaally small, and very cramped. I had to squeeze around people to get to my seat. The walls are bare, absolutely no decoration or poster, nothing like in the US. My class is smaller, with about 25 or so people.

Last week when I found out only one of Soraia's friends was in my class, and I saw that the class was smaller, I asked Isabel what being in class "C" meant... Well, more or less, it's a class for people who just barely passed last year, or have repeated years before. I'm not saying you can tell what a person is like based on their clothing, but I suddenly felt very out-of-place, wearing my pink Gap sweater, in the sea of all-black clothing, and heavy eyeliner.

Class only lasted an hour, and then we were done for the day. Basically we just got our schedules (i'll explain in a minute), and the teacher told us some basic things, that I totally didn't understand.

Rather than having a set schedule every day, or even having a different schedule every other day, I have a different schedule for every day of the week! It's going to be crazy hard to remember, but I think we don't switch classrooms, so that's ok.

My Classes:
English (Yes!!)
Economics (oooh crap)
Religion
Philosophy (huh?)
Literature
World Science
Informatica (no clue what that is..)
Social Mathematics (??)
PE

so, to say the least, it should be a very interesting year...

and I'll leave you with a clip of Lidia singing a children's song about going to bed. :)

Besos!
Gwen