Hmm, just got out of my first "regular" class (aka for natives) and I hope that I can get a decent grade in the class. Really. It´s called "Social Politics and the Welfare State." For those of you who know me, that´s a great class for me and my interests. However, the fact that it´s a regular class was not quite so forgiving. The professor walked in, put up a slide, made a joke about having to come in early (9 o´clock class with a 45 minute commute is a bitch, especially when dinner is at 10), and proceeded to talk. Fast. And quietly. The following is a brief description of a portion of the lecture.
"One of the important parts of what we´ll be studying in the first section of this class is the powers of the state. There are three basic concepts that we will look at surrounding the state. The first is..."
*someone coughs
"...the third is..."
Shit, wait, what were the first two? Damn it, now I just missed the third...
Luckily for me, the slides were provided for me after the class, and (due to sheer coincidence) I found an American partner for the joint project we have to do. Unfortuneately for me, due to my broken Spanish and the inability to understand my professor, he now thinks I´m the dumbest person in his class. Sweet. Exacerbating this problem is the fact that this is not, in reality, the first day of class. Everything started last week. However, I found the room number through a link on the translated, English portion of the university´s website. The room number that link gave me was wrong. So I missed the first week of class before realizing my mistake, and am very behind on understanding what I need to do for class.
*sigh*
On the bright side, of the two hours I spent in class, he only spent roughly 20 minutes bashing America!
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