Clase!

My semester at La Católica finally officially started yesterday and although the registration process is stressful and I have yet to go to all of my classes, it already feels good to be back on a college campus with other university students! Today I went to a canceled geography class, a pretty neat sounding linguistics class I may take, and an awful literature class I will not take. Today I also went for a run and made hostel reservations for Mendoza this weekend with 4 friends. My stomach has kind of felt a little off all day, but I'm hoping a good nights sleep will be able to solve that issue.

Tomorrow, I am going to the bus station to buy bus tickets for Mendoza for Thursday to Sunday morning, going to check out a living situation with Gina, and the checking out a Forestry class, going to dinner with some friends, and packing for Mendoza.

It feels kind of funny leaving for another vacation this soon after returning from Patagonia, but it really is the perfect weekend for Mendoza since we have Thursday and Friday off, and I'm justifying the money by realizing I would be spending it eventually anyhow since it is certainly some place I wanted to go while down here. It should be really fun, with opportunities for bike riding, wine-tasting, rafting, and more.

I'm hoping getting out of Santiago for a relaxing weekend in Mendoza will be just what I need to rid myself of this pesky homesickness that keep lurking in my mind. It's gotten a lot better, but I definitely still miss home a lot and I'm hoping it doesn't stay like this for the next 4 months, because that would be pretty hard to handle. It's kind of funny because in a much more grown up situation, I'm kind of experiencing the same thing we always deal with campers experiencing at camp so I just keep telling myself what we always tell them.

I'm really excited to have my classes figured out officially and be enrolled and not having to worry about any of that anymore, it'll be great! Classes will be challenging (duh! they're in Spanish) but good I think. There are quirks to the university that will take some learning and getting used to, such as the absence of books and thus crazy amounts of photocopies you have to locate to do the reading. But I'm so excited for the semester and to get it rolling after a quick skip and a jump over to Argentina for the weekend!