Classes

Yesterday was my first day of classes. In the program that I chose, there were only about 12 listed as being offered, and there are only about 20 students total (atleast that's what I was told). My program is the only one that offers courses taught in English, the best option for me since I haven't studied Spanish since high school (where it was nowhere close to the advanced level I should be in to take Spanish classes here, probably) and also because all of my grades will transfer, whereas other students in the program said that their schools count these courses as Pass/Fail.

To fulfill my final undergrad requirements, I was advised by the Dean of health sciences to either take 3 of the courses that would count as history or could also take ones that counted as art. All the other classes on the list would not fulfill anything for me, including some language reinforcement type classes and also the cooking class. Although those courses don't count for me, I figured that with the one remaining course (since we need to take 4 to be considered a full-time student) I would take something for fun.

I decided that on Mondays & Wednesdays I would take a U.S.-European Relations Since WW2 course and the cooking class later that evening. But, when I showed up and asked someone where to find the classroom for the Relations course, the lady told me that it was one of the 3 courses that was dropped from our course selections due to under-enrollment (although my other friend Kara called me about a half hour later saying that there were 5 or 6 other girls waiting with her to go to that class!). Luckily, the cooking class still existed; in actuality, there were atleast about 30 students that showed up for it (some are possibly from different programs). The professor was very nice and it seems like it will be a great class. Although I wanted to fall asleep on the first day of it, he said that we would have a chef from one of the best restaurants in Sevilla come in and cook for us some day, we would visit a market and a couple museums together, we would be cooking almost every day, and that he could not see it plausible to have written exams for this course. (He mentioned a presentation, which makes me a little more nervous, but hopefully it will be fine.)

Today I have an Intro to Spanish Cultural Studies course and a course about the History and Mythology of Spain. They both sound very interesting, but I hope they aren't too too similar since I have them back to back. Each class period is 2 hours long; while some professors may choose to let their students out earlier, I still am not looking forward to sitting in class that long. I hope I will be able to adjust.