First Day of School!

Hola,

Today marked my first official day of classes at Pablo de Olavide University! I commemorated the day like I have done every first day of school with my mom since the beginning of time: with a photo! Gracia's daughter took it for me (I don't know why people always act like taking a picture and using a camera is like dismantling an atom bomb, it's the same button on literally every single camera. Yet people always ask, "which button do I push? This one?"). Anyway, this one's for my mom. And anyone else who likes my face.

Between the time it takes to walk to the metro stop, take the metro, and walk to campus, it's about a 35-40 minute trip to and from school each day.

I'm only taking 12 hours of classes this semester, so I have 3 hours of class Monday-Thursday. All my classes are centered around my major of marketing and Spanish. My first class today was Español por los Negocios, or Spanish for Business. It is one of my 2 classes actually taught in Spanish, and one that I think I'll really enjoy. It was very simple to understand my teacher, and she seemed really accommodating to our desires for the class. My second class, international finance, also seemed pretty sweet. It's taught by a Spaniard who said that if we see him at a bar to be sure to come up and talk to him and he would buy us a beer haha. Life is so different in Spain - at the reception that we had through our university last night, they served us wine and beer. If I ever saw someone drinking wine and beer at the cafeteria at K-State, I would definitely be surprised.

Anyway, all in all, it was a successful first day of classes. It took me a while to find the building that I needed to go to, but now that I have I feel very comfortable and confident that I can find my way around the university. I also made a friend who went to high school with a Kanakuk friend and now goes to school at KU, so we had some Rock Chalk conversation.

Big gulps, huh? Welp, see ya later.

Brad.