First Week of Classes!

So Monday the 18th was my first day of classes at the Universidad de Deusto. We arrived that morning at 9 to find out what level of Spanish we were placed into and that would tell us which classes we were placed into as well. I was placed into Spanish 300 (as expected), but my schedule was a little off... A lot of us were pre-registered for classes we weren't sure we wanted to take or weren't registered for the ones we were interested in. So on my first day my schedule had me going to five different classes starting at 11:00 am and ending my day at 4:00 pm with no break! Turns out I wasn't interested in a few of those classes so now my schedule is as follows:

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  Mondays: Spanish Conversation, Basque Culture and Language, and Spanish in Context: Theater
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  Tuesdays: Spanish Conversation. Spanish Grammar, and Culture, Politics and Economy in Contemporary Spanish Society
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  Wednesday: Spanish Grammar, Basque Culture and Language, and Spanish in Context: Cuisine
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  Thursdays: Spanish Conversation and Grammar, and Culture, Politics and Economy in Contemporary Spanish Society
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  Fridays: No class!!

I really like the way my schedule turned out. My earliest class is at 9, but that's only on Thursdays and I'm done no later than 2:25 every day! All the professors are really cool too and want us to call them by their first names... My Spanish professor, Francisco, is quite a character. So even on the days when I have three hours of solid Spanish, I am constantly entertained. All of my classes are taught in Spanish too, but I haven't had any issues so far.

Zubiarte, a big shopping mall, is close to our campus so one day a few friends and I went to grab lunch there and do a little shopping. I can't make that an every week tradition though! But I did get a really cute coat for a good price. And the new library that was just built over on the other side of the Ria has an awesome cafeteria where you can get a huge lunch for a great price so I have done that a bunch of times too. I definitely need to start going back to my dorm to eat lunch though, because these "cheap" meals are definitely going to add up. Our classes are only for the people in the CIDE program so we are not integrated with the the other University students like I thought we would be, but it has given me a really good opportunity to meet other American students who aren't from Mary Wash!