i arrived almost a month ago now and i´m starting to feel pretty settled in. i´m accustomed to the transit and know where i can find anything i´ll need to find, for example good coffee or the four textbooks (out of about 10 listed in the syllabus) for this weeks finance class.

ana maria arrives on tuesday (2 hours after tuesday begins, 2:00am tuesday, to clarify), but it seems i have a quiz worth 9% in finance next friday morning at 830am. photocopying everything, after that i plan to read everything but fail after i read the minimum required material, because if i read it all that would end up being at least two hundred pages i estimate. in spanish. about finance.

rafting tomorrow is going to cut into my strangely half-appealing finance reading time.

since i´ve been here i´ve read el alquimista by paulo coehlo and el caballero de la armadura oxidada, although i´m unsure who wrote it. theyve been good practice for my spanish, id highly recommend anyone who considers themselves an intermediate or advanced spanish student to read these novels as you´ll learn a good amount of vocabulary without feeling overwhelmed, and the stories are entertaining, if a bit cheesy. today i decided to try out my reading abilities with some more advanced literature, and after a bit of browsing decided on metamorphisis by franz kafka.

text message just in! photocopies ready! chao