After surviving registration, I have successfully been to all four of my classes for this semester. But before we get into school let me update you on the events of my weekend. Like mentioned in my previous post, this past weekend we went to the Manchester United vs. South Africa Kaser Chiefs soccer game. It was very loud and fun to watch but it did end a 1-1 tie which us Americans don't understand due to our extremely competitive sports and personalities. Besides watching the game of course, the girls and I kept ourselves entertained by watching the vendors who, get this, were selling donuts and hot chocolate in the stands. We thought it was rather odd but the donuts were decent (christina bought one). After the game we all walked back to the Nursery house and hung out with the girls until it was time to leave for dinner. We were gonna go out to sushi but instead we went to a seafood place called Jimmy's Killer Prawns. Amelia and I split a Carbiean something Platter that had calamari, hake, prawns and rice. It was very good good but there were eyes still on the prawns so that was a little werid. Sunday we got up and went to breakfast at Coca Wah Wah and then went shopping and ran errands before returning to our homes for our big first day of school.
So overall classes are quite different here in Cape Town than in the US. My first class monday morning was Southern Africa in the 20th century. It seems to be an interesting class but we dont have any required books which is weird to me. After class Ali and I went down to the IAPO/CIEE office to sign up for the play and then hiked back up the hill to go to the bookstore before my next class. My second class was Contemporary Art and Visual culture which has a really young cute lecturer so i hope it will be good. After classes I went back home and got ready for the play. CIEE took us to Cissie at the Baxter Theather which was more historical then entertaining but still pretty good.
My second day of class was a little bit longer but not too bad. I didnt have a lecture till noon but i went up to campus early so I could go to ITS to fix my wireless. I then proceeded to sit in the ITS office for an hour and a half while a man named Douglas took various things off my computer and messed around with things until finally i was able to get on merrimack websites. I then went to my art lecture that i had yesterday and then grabbed some lunch. At 2 I had my Democracy, Social change and development class which was very unorganized at first when we had to sign up for our tutorials. The professor seems nice so i hope that it will be a good class. then i had my race, class, and gender class which is apparently 3 different sections taught but three different professors which should be interesting i guess. Over the past two days i have found that things are done a little differently here but i guess im gonna have to get used to it. Well i have some reading to do before my tutorial tomorrow so i g2g but ill try to write tomorrow xoxo
South African facts: People here abbreviate a lot so tut is really tutorial so... "I better go read for my tut tomorrow!"
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