sábado, 21 de xaneiro de 2012

Novedades/ Novelties

I only had 2 days of classes this week, but I can tell it's going to be a glorious semester.

Thursday: Translation. In general I was looking forward to this class because I think I want to do some type of translating when I graduate, and because my main profe from last semester teaches it. Then I found out a large part of the grade is working on subtitling a movie into English, which is amazing because being a subtitler is my dream job. Well, we'll see how this experience goes, perhaps I'll loathe it. ;)

Basque Language and Culture. This is also taught by my original profe, and the topic interests me too. I hope we learn a lot of Euskara this semester. I already knew a few key phrases, but now I can add Ni Donostian bizi naiz to my vocab (I live in Donostia). And we talked about La Tamborrada/ Día de San Sebastián (next blog's theme).

European Cinema: Yeaaah cinema! Another of my professors from last semester teaches this, so that's comforting. I've seen a few of the films on our syllabus list, but look forward to talking about them in Spanish this time around.

That's all the classes I've had. Another novedad is my roommate, Ane. She's a Basque woman in her late 20s. I think we're going to get along great because she seems very chill, very Basque jeje. And she can help me practice when I get further into the Euskara class. Hooray!