Bien Cansada...

Hey All,

I apologize to my many fans for not keeping up with this blog as well as I did. This week has been a chaotic mess. We have been trying to sign up for classes and let me tell you, it is the biggest pain in the ass EVER. Even if you have one simple question, you MUST go in to whatever building/office that person is at and ask in person. No one responds to email. SO annoying. What is worse is that the whole sign up process is SO unclear. It is awful.

So today I went to UMSA (local university, it is private and I had high hopes....) and tried out 2 classes. The first was Art history of Argentina (20th century) & the other was drawing. Well, I had to miss my spanish class to see if I wanted to take this art history class and now I am bummed that I skipped a class I liked because the Art History class was a waste of my time. 1. the professor's teaching style was not congruent to how I've been taught art history in the past, this professor made things much more complicated 2. the professor expects A LOT, now I'm up for a challenge, but dear god, understanding what the hell she is trying to say about some random painting is difficult enough. Let alone visit 6 different museums and read 4 different text books (that admittedly all contradict each other)...yeah, sorry, but no thanks. I am here to work hard, but not to kill myself trying to read entire art history books in another language. Hell to the No. Even the kids in that class were snooty, I guess that's the art history crowd, though. Whatever. The next class was drawing, which I was only attending to check out not because I necessarily wanted to sign up. I really want to sign up for painting, which is tomorrow, but get this: I was the only student. You may say that is wonderful, but NAY. 'twas not. Art is a process. stopping me every 15 minutes to correct me will only frustrate me. Chances are I will find the "error"myself and fix it, but I can't have someone breathing down my neck the whole time! No Bueno!! I also am getting frustrated with drawing because I can express myself much more easily via paints. The dimension of color adds so much, its ridiculous! Any ways, even if I appreciated the individual attention, I do not want to be by myself for a full quarter! I am doing this to meet Argentines, not to isolate myself from EVERYONE! I can't imagine that tomorrow (for painting) it will be much better, which I am sad for. I don't know what to do...?


I also have to interviews tomorrow for internships, The first one (and my first choice!) is this NGO that works to provide organic soy or something, I don't know, I should probably research it tonight. I just remember being stoked when someone explained it to me last week. The other would essentially be working for the night life of Buenos Aires, which would be fun and would definitely not be isolating! Either way, I am pleased!

Sorry for such a downer blog, life in the city really is fun and I am LOVING it, I am just frustrated with this class schedule business...only because my alternative is taking all of my classes with americans, which is not what I came to do.

Anyways, I am going to go eat raviolis, coke, and maybe some flan then watch pocahontas and go to bed.
love you all,
annette