Class Registration

Yes and yes!  Not only did I get into advanced classes (meaning they can count towards my major) but they are also classes I want to take.  Here’s the line up: Afro-Caribbean culture, Latin American film and society, gender and society in the Dominican Republic and Dominican/Haitian relations.  The only two drawbacks are that I have to retake advanced grammar (we took a placement exam and I did not do so well) and my classes are spread out over the whole day.  For instance, on Monday, my first class is at 11am and my last class ends at 9pm.  Thursday will be my worst day though; it starts at 8am and ends at 7pm.  But there are nice big chunks of time in the middle and I do live within walking distance of campus.  (This also, by the way, ruins my college goal of never having to take an 8 am class.  Sigh.)

Here’s a brief description about how registration went.  We met at 2:30 to fill out the necessary paper work and review our placement exam results.  There was a schedule in which we would each individually meet with a professor/advisor for fifteen minutes to select classes.  Well, Dominican time is a bit slower than ours and a fifteen-minute meeting quickly turned into a thirty-minute meeting.  I was in the middle of the pack in terms of appointments and by the time I spoke with someone we were already over an hour behind.  (Note to self- always bring a deck of cards/book to read when there will be a lot of down time).  However, as long as an afternoon it was for us, it must have been twice as long for those helping us register.  After all they were the ones figuring out which classes conflicted with which and trying to make it work with what classes we wanted to be in. 

The afternoon is also the hottest part of the day here and we got to spend that time in air conditioning!