Today I started the third week at Universidad del Pacifico.
This is one of the best universities in Lima and I guess it has the best economic department of all the universities. The peruvian students are all children of the richest inhabitants of Lima. So it is not strange when you see an Apple laptop in one of the lecturerooms.
Like I told you before, my Spanish is really not sufficient so to understand the classes is really hard. Some lecturers are easier to understand than others and it is not that I don't get anything, but it is just hard. By the way the first week I was also really sick, so it was not the best start for me like you can imagine. The level of the lectures is not really high, but for us high enough because of the Spanish. Also we have to do a lot here! Every week there is a test our a presentation and that is why you have to read a lot and like you can imagine, it is all in Spanish..
I have to admit that I can notice that my Spanish is improving, but I have to put a little bit more effort in it. It is just that when you are on exchange you also want to meet other people and not only study. I only hope that after 6 months I can speak Spanish reasonable fluent.
Chau!
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
First weeks
I'm now almost 3 weeks in Lima, Peru.
The depart was really scary, you go from your known and safe envitonment to a different place which is said to be criminal and dangerous. The flight was really heavy, because it was a long trip and we didn't had our own television screens so we were a little bit bored. When we finally arrived it was 7 o'clock in the evening and the traffic was really chaotic. In the way to our apartment we saw all new and different things: we are in South America now! We were really tired so we went to bed early.
Now we are taking the intermediate level of Spanish course. We expected that everyone had about the same level as we, but that turned out different. Most of the people had Spanish classes for 4 years or more. The Spanish course forces you to speak a lot of Spanish and I think that is just what we need. However we really need to learn some words. It is hard to have conversations, but after almost 3 weeks we can notice that it is getting better. So don't expect that the 8 months of Spanish on Tilburg university are sufficient.
We also had our mandatory day at the university. You don't get really a lot of useful information, nut I guess it is necessary and it was a goos oppurtunity to got in touch with the other exchange students. The next day we had to pick our courses. The system was really stupid. They arbitrary picked some names of a list and that students were allowed to select their courses. The stupidest thing is, that there are only 5 students allowed in every class, so it was really stressful. I was one of the last persons, fortunately I could still pick the courses I wanted.
Because of a week of between the Spanish classes we already traveled to Arequipa. This was really nice. Unlike Lima, the weather was good. In Lima it is almost always grey and at this moment really cold. This Thursday we go on a trip again, nut only for a couple of days, because Monday the university starts. I'm really excited about that. I will let you know how it was in my next blog.
Ciao,
Eline
The depart was really scary, you go from your known and safe envitonment to a different place which is said to be criminal and dangerous. The flight was really heavy, because it was a long trip and we didn't had our own television screens so we were a little bit bored. When we finally arrived it was 7 o'clock in the evening and the traffic was really chaotic. In the way to our apartment we saw all new and different things: we are in South America now! We were really tired so we went to bed early.
Now we are taking the intermediate level of Spanish course. We expected that everyone had about the same level as we, but that turned out different. Most of the people had Spanish classes for 4 years or more. The Spanish course forces you to speak a lot of Spanish and I think that is just what we need. However we really need to learn some words. It is hard to have conversations, but after almost 3 weeks we can notice that it is getting better. So don't expect that the 8 months of Spanish on Tilburg university are sufficient.
We also had our mandatory day at the university. You don't get really a lot of useful information, nut I guess it is necessary and it was a goos oppurtunity to got in touch with the other exchange students. The next day we had to pick our courses. The system was really stupid. They arbitrary picked some names of a list and that students were allowed to select their courses. The stupidest thing is, that there are only 5 students allowed in every class, so it was really stressful. I was one of the last persons, fortunately I could still pick the courses I wanted.
Because of a week of between the Spanish classes we already traveled to Arequipa. This was really nice. Unlike Lima, the weather was good. In Lima it is almost always grey and at this moment really cold. This Thursday we go on a trip again, nut only for a couple of days, because Monday the university starts. I'm really excited about that. I will let you know how it was in my next blog.
Ciao,
Eline
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