Wednesday, October 17, 2007 A good balance of work and play

Wednesday, October 17, 2007 A good balance of work and play

I woke up early to finish my essay. Luckily I decided to take my Doctrina Social test on Thursday instead of Wednesday (today) so I had extra time to finish the essay. My Doctrina Social professor lets us take the test in either section he has. Amazingly I got the essay done before I needed to head to class. I headed to campus, printed off the essay (not corrected by a Chilean, therefore FULL of grammar errors) and went to mass. After mass I had my Education class, then ate lunch with my gringo friend Nick.

I headed to my Biblia class, ready to turn in my essay. In between class I went to get a coffee at the market in the metro station and on the way out I tripped up the stairs. It was really embarrassing and I spilled half my coffee, some of it on myself. And worst was that I scrapped my elbow and it was bleeding a tiny bit. Now that I write it out it sounds a lot worse than it was, but I was quite embarrassed. After Pobreza a bunch of us went to a bar/café across the street to watch the last 20 minutes of the Chile vs. Peru soccer game. The place was totally full and from our seats outside we could barely see the TV inside. But Chile was up 2-0 so it was more about the environment. We shared a couple of pitchers of beer and after the game ended we stayed another 30 minutes or so discussing religion and God. It was great to have a real conversation about a real topic. The whole time I kept thinking about the fact that I had a test tomorrow but I wasn’t really worried about it. When it comes to class here I am definitely a different person than I am at Tulane and I love it! Maybe that is just the life of a liberal arts major! (Note the sarcasm to those of my friends who study the wonderful and priceless liberal arts!)

I took the metro home, ate a quick once with Olga and headed to my room to study. For some reason my internet wasn’t working so I couldn’t talk to Trevor, which was probably for the better so I could study! I feel asleep reading through my notes.