Chaos, Classes, and Cinnamon Rolls.

You'd think I would be used to the barely-contained chaos and lateness that seems to define the Peruvian lifestyle. I have seen the chaos that is traffic in Lima. I have ridden on the confusing public transportation system without schedules or maps.  I have been in classes where day after day students routinely walk in an hour into the start of class like nothing is wrong. I have gotten used to starting class 10 minutes after the scheduled start time. I understand that when I say I am meeting a Peruvian friend at 2 it may mean 2:15 or later. BUT, somehow, I had not fully prepared myself for the chaos that was registering for classes at PUCP. I will not go into all the boring details, but suffice it to say that the registration 1) did not happen on time and 2) that the system that they were using to call people in one group at a time completely fell apart and it became a kind of free-for-all chaos. Luckily, I was early enough that all my classes were still open!!!! I WILL NEVER COMPLAIN ABOUT REGISTRATION AT UNC EVER AGAIN.

Here is my schedule:

Monday:
8am-10am: History 108: History of Peru: Formation to the 18th Century (in English)
2pm-3pm: Arqueología 107 (in Spanish)

Tuesday:
12pm-2pm: Práctica for Arqueología 107 (kind of like a recitation)
3pm-6pm: Gender and Climate Change (in English)

Wednesday:
8am-10am: History 108: History of Peru: Formation to the 18th Century (in English)
4pm-6pm: Arqueología 107 (in Spanish)

Thursday:
10am-12pm: Ecoturismo (in Spanish)

I am excited for these classes! Luckily I know some people in each class I am taking so I am not totally alone. And for the Ecotourism class we get to go on a 2-day field trip in October to see the impacts of tourism first-hand. So excited!
I figured that since my spanish level is not quite up to par yet, I would take 2 classes in English and 2 in Spanish to allow me time to improve a little more.

And after Arqueoología Ane Kine and I went to a coffee shop on campus and I ate the most delicious cinnamon roll of my life. We were talking about various jobs we had had and I have to share this with you because it is so cool: In the town she is from in Norway, Ane Kine works as a bouncer. A BOUNCER. Mind you, she is shorter than me and not very intimidating. Apparently her town has this policy of hiring women to be bouncers (as well as men) because apparently it cuts down on the number of fights they have. If they see a fight happening, especially between two guys trying to prove their macho-ness, the girls step in between them and this calms the fight down. They will take the arm of one of the guys and be like, lets go for a walk for something. An interesting way to use the notion that men shouldn't hit women....