Asked about the possibility of taking a bio class with Spanish students - answer, ¨no¨ (but kindly, and after a class director told me he had asked and looked into it).
Looked through available classes - they would have to be in the filología or historia department (not sciences).
I found one that looked interesting, possibly more thinking and analysis than most of my classes in the U.S., it seemed, but it looked good, and it would be able to work with my schedule if I moved one class. (This class was called Antropología Cultural y Arte).
I went to the first day. ( I got there on time, I believe! Or at least before the teacher!). I asked if a seat or two were open before finding one that, indeed, was not yet occupied by someone´s friend who would be coming soon. I sat next to a group of friends. They had realized I was an extranjera, and we talked a little. They seemed genial.
The only problem was: I couldn´t hear the teacher. It´s true that I wasn´t sitting super close to the front, I could have gotten closer, but the idea didn´t seem like it would really help a whole lot. Another mini problem was that he had a ¡barba tan grande! Pues, por eso no podía saber lo que estaba diciendo por sus labios porque sus labios parecían cubiertos con el pelo de su barba! Ay!
Okay, so, I thought, I would try going to a different section of this class. I would have to go to a different section of another class, but that would be okay. And anyway, Pedro - who was a great help, muy genial y gracioso - had said that maestras as opposed to maestros might be better as art teachers. So the next day I went to her class. I could understand her! She spoke much louder and seemed interesting. So after the class I went up to ask if it would be okay for me, una estudiante en cursos concentados que estaría en Sevilla solamente hasta el mayo, podía asisitir a esta clase. The answer: I would be missing practically half of the material, with the weeks of for Semana Santa, and Feria de Abril, and all. And the final examen, (which I assumed was very mandatory, though I hadn´t gotten a syllabus because it had been passed out the day before), would be July 1st. Not half the course time- worth later, but I wasn´t going to argue.
Day three! : After looking through the class options yet again, I found a new anthropology class that looked like it could be interesting. I found times - one that could work - and the class number (written in roman numerals). I was ready to go to the class, and asked someone where the classroom was. I found the classroom I had asked about, went in, and sat down. After probably almost 10 minutes, ( when the teachers show up), I asked if this was the class I was looking for. Nope. It turned out it was some type of religion class. So I left, and looked at my notes about the class. Okay, so it turned out I had mistaken an X for a V in my roman-numeral notes. Okay. Off to look for the new classroom. I was directed there. Turned out there was some non-anthropology class in there. Was directed to a new classroom. Nope (and then directed back to the class I had came from - but I knew better now). Okay, back to the room where the professor had given me some direction. He told me the class I was looking for, since it was a first-year-student class, definitely would not be where I had just gone. He helped me look it up and found the newly-revised classroom. (It had been changed since the fall). I started on my way, with him close, directing. Then we saw the suppose-ed teacher! So he, and we, stopped. He talked with her, told me I could follow her. Turned out she wasn´t teaching that class - that had changed since the fall also. But he informed me that the new teacher was a good professor. So on my way I went. Found the classroom with no problem. Right by one of the cursos concentados clases. By now I was significantly late (more than 10 and more than 15 minutes after the class had started). So I took the desk-seat in the front row - because it was closest to the door. I could hear him! And I liked the way he spoke-lectured. So - I returned the next day.
That is today. I got there on time so I could sit a bit farther back (in the second row that students were actually sitting in). Again I liked his lecturing. Though I wasn´t quite sure how interested I was in this. It´s called Antropología de Sociedades Contemporáneos. (algo como así). But I spoke to him after, and he said it would be fine to have me in the class! How nice! He said it didn´t matter that I would be leaving in May. Sounds good!
And though I probably won´t be able to do the soup kitchen, I found a teacher who I seem to like so far, in a class with Spanish students, that I can be in and get credit for! (At least that´s the thought!).
So it looks like that´s the one! And hopefully now it will be easier to figure out my other classes.
¡Hasta luego, nuevo ¨blog¨!
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