First day of classes

I don't like trying to type blog posts at school because I have to use my iPod and I can't do any formatting. However, I have two hours of free time and I didn't really post yesterday.


So my classes started today. It's very interesting. It's so amazing to me that two people with different origins and backgrounds can communicate via this second language that both are still learning. In my group there are people from Venezuela, Bolivia, China, Korea (yes, I am generalizing. He only said he's Korean, not the north or south part), Japan, Greece, Poland, Niger... People who don't speak English. I had a decently long conversation with one of the Polish girls. And no one has the option of explaining what they want to say in their own language like they would have had in language classes at home.


I have a "media" elective class where they mix people from 3 different language levels. You can really tell who is in which level though. It seems to me like those placement exams were fairly efficient. But the 3 levels in the class are still advanced enough that we can all for the most part understand each other, I just think it'll be harder for some to clearly understand and express themselves... I feel like we're going to be spending a lot of time in the same class every week but I guess that's all for the best... These classes aren't going to be too bad. I hope.


I thought maybe I should talk about food a little, for Alyssa. Did you know that in France they have every flavor of yogurt imaginable? I had pistachio yogurt, chocolate, caramel, someone found coffee flavored yogurt... I swear, if you just look hard enough I bet you could find anything. And it's yogurt, not pudding. I love pistachio yogurt....


I am going to post more later because this is so hard to type on, but there's a little update for you.