Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Class Schedule and update...

This is my class schedule and it's not too shabby. For my Latin America and the Arts class we usually visit a museum or historic site and have to write a 500 word essay sometime before the next Wednesday. For Latin American Studies we have had to do different projects. Before going to Buenos Aires we all picked a research project out of a hat and wrote a 400 paper on it to get acquainted with the basics of the city and the country, past and present, before we went there.
Spanish is 8 - 10 hours a week and that about sums it all up. For class, sometimes our homework assignment is to go out and have a conversation with a local about something. This week I have to find out how Uruguayans feel about Argentineans and Brazilians, so we'll see how that goes. My Bible class is not on this schedule because it will only be for the month of October (as of right now). It is a short course because the professor who was supposed to teach it stayed home to be with his wife who was diagnosed with cancer 10 days before we left. That class will be online and will be split in half by our trip to Brazil which has been rescheduled for October 10th - 19th I believe... Anyway, this is my schedule, today we went to an English language teaching institute that is associated with the United States. They teach English and classes on American culture, history, etc and they are looking for volunteers to teach their conversation clubs and to be interviewed for classes, so I think I'm going to volunteer there. The clubs are once a week for one hour so the commitment isn't exactly severe. I am rather proficient in English if I do say so myself and I believe my middle school report card with all my demerits for talking in class would serve to validate this.

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