Classes are Set in Stone

I got up early this morning to head over to Carlos III early with a Carolina because she had class beginning an hour before mine and she lives pretty close to me and so takes the same route to school. She joined our “group” late because she didn’t really get to school until later than most for some reason and somehow got to know some of our French friends in some way or another. She has studied in Madrid before and so her Spanish is slightly better than mine is and was most recently studying abroad in Italy. I think that the whole idea of studying abroad is much more popular and common among European Students. I had also wanted to get to school early because I needed to head over to a bank near school to complete a couple money orders for my TACO discount card as well as my gym membership at the university. I couldn’t pay with cash and I had no card to use because I cancelled both of mine after my wallet was taken. After I took care of the whole payment thing, I relaxed for a little and read the paper before heading to econ. Then I had a bunch of time to spend figuring out what classes I would take divinitively because Monday was the last day we had to figure that out. I decided to stick with econ after seeing how a couple of my other classes would end up double counting. And I think that econ would be interesting when taught in a different country. We are heavily studying the EU and so the subject matter is a bit different than I was used which is good, but also similar enough where my past experience with it will help me pass the relatively hard class given that it is discussing complex ideas in a language in which I’m not at all fluent.
After spending some time in the office with Juan, I felt much more comfortable with my academic position. I’m very glad we have these advisors here.. we’d be lost without them. It seems like I always have someone there looking out for me and helping me out every step of the way. After class I didn’t end up doing very much. Just organized myself academically and read some Spanish news to get back in touch a little with what is going on and went home for another amazing dinner complements of Eugenia. I was a little under the weather so I went to bed very early and slept a lot after a hot cup of milk with honey which put me out almost instantly.