Mañana strikes back
Yep, just as I was under the impression of an organized metropoly with everything working on time etc., the so called human factor came to play. What seemed in talks to be the very next instant has turned into days and might turn into weeks. I knew about the "mañana" -phenomenon already and ignored it, but it's still very alive and kicking! The past week was mostly spent in waiting for someone to do something they promised to do a while back. Be it curtains to the room, be it a monitor I agreed to buy or be it contact information "I'm just sending you", I was kept waiting.
Waiting can be fun, though. You can just do nothing with a good reason! And after all, I had my own room where I could do nothing! The room I eventually got is quite big, some 50 sq. meters in size. And all it basically needs is curtains as everybody passing (that being virtually everyone in the house) can see the most of my room. Not to forget the dogs, of which the more intelligent beast is in the pic below -they try to sneak in through the low windows that I previously kept unlocked to sleep on my comfy chairs...
I am also in the process of getting a computer (might take a while though I have everything save for the monitor..) to get some work done on my thesis and also on the normal courses, as the courses seem to have a rather different workload than the ones in Finland. Especially the course investigaciòn del mercado is going to cost me some work as the teacher speaks spanish so unclearly and fast that even the Chileans can't keep up all the time. And the class attendace is kept extremely strict, missing over 25% for ANY reason results in failing the course (so bye bye those long weekends) and entering over 5 minutes late equals missing the class. Also, the amount of readings is sufficient to make even the most ambitious HSE professors happy.
Yet, not to complain, the courses are carefully organized and they are taught by experts with excessive demand for interactivity, so I might end up learning something (!). And, as I mentioned, the sports facilities are excellent in my campus -and the bachelor -level students still have obligatory courses in P.E.! I myself ended up with a total of 4 courses after fighting the red-tape-people for a while. Gladly, as having more would have meant no social life at all. Anyway, us masters students get to use the sports facilities as we like so the extra time between classes will be well spent.
Still, it will be a bit hard getting myself up for the early mornings as the school is REALLY far, see from the picture above, the small white dot in the background next to the mountainside (on the right) is the campus. The picture is taken from a viewpoint in the very center of the city (thus the cablecars) and the house is just some 15 minutes away -in the opposite direction.. On top of the same hill there is Santiago's equivalent to Rio's big statue -not nearly as visible, though, thanks to both "some" difference in size and the smog.
posted by Kassu @ 11:27 AM
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