Day 4: April 20

Today was the first day of classes. They gave me a test and placed me in a group of 6 with similar abilities. I am already learning a lot and the teacher is really good. In fact, I was surprised at how good the teacher was. Besides the teacher, I am the only guy in the class. In fact, there are tons of girls here period...its nice. Not much else really going on today, I have some homework and want to study. I'll leave you with a few other tidbits from the country..some of which you may already know. 1) Sewage systems don't take TP, so you have to wipe and throw it in a trash bin beside the toilet. The shitty part is that at night, the city swarms with "cartejernos" (sp?)who dig through all the cities trash and pick out the recycling and collect $. The city even set up a special train that goes around early in the morning to pick up all the people and the trash they collect...its the best grass roots recycling program I have ever seen...but can you imagine sorting through all the bags of shit...literally shit.
2) I ordered a coffee and it became immediately clear that they don't enjoy excess like we do in the states. My cafe came in a cup fit to be in a doll house....it was like an exspresso shot but it was just coffee and it still cost about $2 american.