First Week of Classes...

and I'm still jet-lagged. Woke up at 4am. It's so hard to keep up with everything that's been going on. This week was the first day of class. Luckily, I only have classes Mondays and Wednesdays. Yay! So I get 5 out of the 7 days of the week for myself. Awesome!

My classes:

Gender and Politics in Modern Italy and Spain
Globalization and Crisis in Spain and Italy
The Changing Faces of the Mediterranean: Migration in Southern Europe

I receive 5 UC units per class, so in total I'm taking 15 units. What's awesome about these classes if that our learning is not only limited to the classroom. It's only week one and I've already been on 3 field trips.

For my migritation class, on Tuesday we met at Teatro La Latina and explored the minority neighborhoods of Madrid, both historical and contemporary. There were a lot of North African men, Indians, and Chinese. I'm pretty sure there were Latinos but it's hard to distinguish them from the Spaniards.

The next day, Wednesday, I had two field trips back to back. Talk about exhausation! For my Globalization class we went to the Royal Palace of El Pardo. It was raining :(
We couldn't take pictures inside. Boo hoo! But it was quite grand. Without any break, I had to take the metro to the next field trip at the Museo del Romanticism.  Fortunately, el metro en Madrid is very efficient. The metro comes every 5 minutes from 6am-1:30am. So no excuses for tardiness! Plus, it's easy to connect to other lines!


In my free time, I find myself in el centro mucho! I've been to the Royal Palace de Madrid twice! There's so much to see on the outside, but I really need to make a trip inside. I'm sure it's grand like the exterior.

Tomorrow I plan to take a free tour of Madrid! Let's see how that goes!