Schedule is finally decided

Hurray, I have my final schedule!

Mon/Wed: 11am - 1pm Phonetics, 1pm - 3pm Grammar
Tue/Thur: 11am - 1pm Cinema, 1pm - 3pm Semantics
Fri: 8am - noon Seminar

Basically, I'm taking 3 linguistics classes, a class where I get to watch awesome movies which I can't understand, and a required seminar that will force me to get out of bed much earlier than I'd like. It could be worse. I know I'll have to wake up a lot earlier this summer when I start working on a regular intern schedule again. I really like the university classes I'm taking so far. I have some neat professors who I can understand, for the most part.

I'm a little nervous about evaluation for my classes, because in Spain my entire grade is based on a midterm and a final exam for each class. I haven't studied for a big test like that in at least a year. Last semester my finals consisted solely of papers and presentations. The semester before, all my tests were non-cumulative, lessening the stress built up before them. Finals week this semester will determine half of my grade in all of my classes, which might be a first for me. Luckily, I feel pretty good about my classes so far and think that I'll be able to handle finals by the time they come around.

This Thursday the Geranios group is going to see an Espectáculo Flamenco. I'm sure it will be fabulous. I don't have a lot else going on this week. Marit and I have started working out way through the Firefly series (which she has never seen), and our goal is to finish it by the time we leave Spain. With only 14 episodes, this should be a fairly easy goal to reach. We have about 9 hours to fit into the next 3 months. Piece of cake. Or rather ice cream, as is our new tradition. Spanish ice cream is delicious.

Pictures (these are all from Córdoba last weekend):
1) marketplace
2) more marketplace
3) the church tower
4) one of the cutest restaurant entryways I've ever seen
5) big van + narrow road = success? The driver actually made it out without a scratch.
6) pretty building that everyone wanted a picture with (have I mentioned that the architecture here is gorgeous?)
7) fountains outside the walls which surround the main part of the city