Grad school starts Monday!!! Whoaaa, new school, new town, new everything ... what should I wear? haha just kidding. Its not going to be like the auditorium classes at UT where you can just fade into the background all year by not saying anything and just taking notes, I think the max number of students in my classes can only be 30. So I need to know my stuff. Ive been doing all kinds of stuff to get ready for the school year like with records and official documents for enrollment. Yesterday, I had to take a 2 hour placement exam in spanish ( no dictionary allowed) over statistics, economics, finance and marketing just to see where I stand. There was so much vocabulary I didnt know and it was soo long. You know, they kind of try to trick you to make sure you pay attention to detail, soo Ms Baros didnt do too hot I dont think. Ah, if it wouldve been in english or if I just knew what some of the terms were in english, not the definition, just the word, I think I wouldve done a lot better. But, I guess that completely defeats the whole purpose. After the 30th page- the words started becoming one windy sentence and nothing made sense. Tricky spanish overload. But no worries... in case you're worried, if I do terrible, it wont hurt me. It just means I cant place out of the class. I dont mind starting from the bottom though.
My class that starts Monday is the only english class Im going to have. The real school year really starts the end of August, but this is just like an intense summer school class that only lasts for 3 weeks. So I figured why not, plus itll be a nice transition into the school and how things work. The guy in the picture teaches the class, Al Lieberman, a professor from NYU. Hopefully he sports that same bow-tie Monday. I read his bio and he seems pretty good, before teaching he was the exec VP at one of the Young & Rubicam divisions... yikes. Im looking forward to his class, maybe he'll love me since Im a fellow American. Instead of an apple, I'll just leave the US flag on his desk and wink, gotta get those extra points right?
Umm what else, I joined a gym!! After 3 months of going running "sometimes" , you start to get a little soft. Its called Megatlon.. haha so meat-head sounding right. But, its literally a block from my apartment- I can see it from my balcony and it reminds me of Lifetime, so it's a little bit of home next door :) I keep expecting Pappy to walk by with his headphones and his work-out "uniform" on, but no Pappy. Its only my third day but it seems good. It's kind of intense though, my spinning teacher yesterday was on the Argentine Olympic spinning team! what! He was in serious spin mode the whole time. He chugged his water bottles and just threw them to the side just like they do in the Tour de France. Wheres Lancey? But it seems like every member worked out religiously before joining the gym. Its ridiculous, but its good. Since the Argentine girls are beautiful to begin with- well good genes, thin- you know, annoying, that plus working out, its like walking around a gym full of skinny barbies. They are my inspiration. One day , I keep saying. haha. I mean, Id rather be at a gym of squares, at the bottom of the totem pole and work my way up then be at a gym of circles and be kinda up there, yah know.
And we rented out our second room in our apartment! ... to an Argentine girl named Caro (Carolina) thats 26, studies architecture and loves amphibians and dogs... so we'll see. Im really excited to have a spanish person in the house though- me and Bryan speak english to each other all day. So with her, its going to help a lot! yes! The only picture I have of her is this one, her facebook picture. We've never met her, she's from a town called Corrientes. Bryan talked to her and said she seemed really normal and nice...
And! Our naked neighbor across the street, continues to walk around in a speedo with all his lights on and do lunges. His body isnt speedo ready. Plus, the whole side of his aparment that faces us is windows- so at night you can see everything. Just close the blinds, but I think he likes it. So far, this is what Ive gathered about Naked Neighbor:
-he has nice things and clothes
-his maid comes everyday
-no pets
- no ones ever at his apartment with him
- and hes always working or on the computer
hmm... my guess is hes a lonely bachelor, Bryan thinks hes gay. And he has a huge black light in his room, its so weird it looks like one of those mosquito attractors. Who is this Naked Neighbor? Its a mystery.
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