1/31/2011: Classes

Today is the first day of classes! I’m not sure if I should be happy about that… having so much free time is nice, but reeeeally boring. Now I actually have to do something. We had breakfast at 9:30 and left the hostel to check the departments that hadn’t put up class timetables. If they weren’t up today, that meant no class! Our first stop was the history, English and sociology block. All three buildings are joined by a courtyard so we don’t have to walk as far! I signed up for The History of Ghana in the 19^th and 20^th Centuries, and then moved on to see the English timetable. It was up to, that meant I’d have to go to all of my classes this week. Shakespeare and His Age, is on Thursdays (at 7:30am… hopefully the professor can make it interesting otherwise I might as well bring my pillow) and should fulfill a required course at home. Then I looked at the poetry class I wanted to take. Turns out it was a Monday class, so I actually had to go to it today. But when I looked at the timeslot, I was doomed. Class started at 11:30 and it was already 11:15! I didn’t even know where the building it was in was. I asked a few people and it turned out that the class was just in the next building over J I was definitely on time, not that it mattered, the professor took full advantage of Ghana time and was ten minutes late.

Class here isn’t very different than class at home. The only main difference is that each class only meets once a week, for two hours. Poetry actually lasted the entire period and was pretty interesting. We’ll be studying some poems I’ve already read for other classes, so it should be easy J.

After class I grabbed lunch and headed back to the hostel. I finally got to check my email on my own computer! After a week, I had 81 emails on AOL and 15 on my school account! I caught up on Kenzie’s blog and all of the happenings on facebook. By then, it was dinner time! After dinner we watched a movie. I fell asleep multiple times while it was running, so immediately after it was bedtime. Tomorrow I’ve only got one class, The Faith and Practice of Islam, which starts at 1:30. Hopefully I’ll be able to sleep in. The sun rises at like 5am here so I’ve been waking up at like 8 every time I want to sleep in. Not cool.

I finished uploading!! Now I can actually do posts on the right days haha. That is...if i remember.