Saturday, March 27, 2010

First Weeks of School

First weeks of Classes

Been a while since I last wrote, a lot has happened and I've been busy…
Firstly, all of my room mates moved back in including three new guys; Pedro, Gustavo, and Jean Paulo ("vegano"). So already the house is a nonstop party. The first week of them all arriving here we pretty much drank every night telling each other tales of the holidays.



Then there's school, this is now the third week back, and the first chance I'm able to sit down a write something. Here's the schedule:

Monday:
Teorieas de Radio Journalismo 7:00p.m. - 8:30p.m.

Tuesday:
Communicação Politica: 5:00p.m. - 6:30p.m.
Teorias de Radio Journalismo 7:00p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Journalsimo Internacional: 9:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.

Wednesday:
Communicação Politica: 5:00p.m. - 6:30p.m.
Linguagem Potographica: 7:00p.m. - 8:30p.m.
Officinas de Journal-Laboratorio: 9:00p.m. - 10:30 p.m.

Thursday:
Journalsimo Internacional: 9:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.

Friday:
Discoursivas Practicas 7:00p.m. - 8:30p.m.
Officinas de Journal-Laboratorio: 9:00p.m. - 10:30 p.m.

(This comes out to be about 18 NMSU credit hours)

I also picked up some kind of game design workshop/class as of yesterday so that will be Tuesdays and Fridays from 8-10a.m. Yuck, early, but it should be good, we'll be using C++, Blender, and Flash from what I understand…

So if that's not enough, there's more! I've been contracted by the university to translate their website. So I've got probably around 200-400 pages to translate over the next couple months. And finally, I've also been hired to teach english. A woman who has her own english school here in São João, sought me out and asked me if I could teach her a private class, have some of her students for a conversation class, and maybe do more. So far I'm teaching wednesdays from 10:00a.m. to 1:00p.m. and Fridays from 3:00p.m. to 5:00p.m. So that's all of the "scheduled" things for this coming semester. I do plan to make a few trips around to continue sight seeing Brazil (I'm sure I'll need the vacations). One maybe for Easter and another right before I come back to the states.