Erica: Such and Such

I had my last first day of school today (of course that’s making the presumption that I won’t someday go to grad school or pick up any vocational degrees, but still.) I met some of the new students at VENUSA and they seem like a pretty good crew. I am sure I will meet a lot more tonight at “Nuevos Encuentros” and afterwards when we make it to whatever bar we end up going to.

My schedule this semester looks decent, I’m taking Cross-Cultural Communications, Spanish 1004, and am attending (but not enrolled for) Field Botany in the Andes. I really-really-really wanted to take that class, but the folks who signed up for it wanted it in spanish, and since I don’t have the language skills to keep up with that, I’m just showing up and learning whatever I can. Plus, if I didn’t go to that class, I’d be done at 1:30 p.m. and wouldn’t know what to do with myself for the rest of the day.