Orientation

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Today was orientation day at USFQ for all of the inernational students. I stayed over at nikki's house last night, so we left around 7 am so we could arrive on-time to campus at 8. We ''signed in'' and got our orientation handbooks and then went into a pretty big room with all the other international students. We had multiple speakers who talked about stuff that we'd already heard about, but I guess it was good to be there any way.

We got to see all of the other international students, too. There are kids from Japan, Korea, Singapore, Germany, Polland, Holland, and most of us are from the US. What I found humerous was that most of them have been here for less than 5 days. I don't know if I could land in a foreign country and start classes at a big University within the next couple of days. I felt like the cool 6th graders who already knew everything with all the little 1st graders coming in fresh and ignorant. =]

But classes tomorrow and I have 3 of my 4 classes. =\ I have Art History, History of the Latin Am. Republic and Advanced Spanish Grammer.... Kill me now. haha. Nikki, Meghan and I are all together though, so we can suffer together. We have these classes on Mondays and Wednesdays and then on Friday we don't have Adv. Grammer. On Tuesdays and Thursdays Nikki and I have Basic Quichua, which is the indigenous language of Ecuador. It shall be interesting. =]

I got introduced to a friend of Daniel's on facebook who lives in Quito. His name is Fernando and I had seen in his pictures that he was wearing Christain t-shirts, so I asked him about them and he said that he is Christian and he goes to a church called ''English Fellowship Church'' and invited me to come next Sunday. Then he started plugging the organization he volunteers for that's called ''Pan de Vida'' which, coincidentally, is right next door to the church. He was saying that he helps out with the worship service and I told him about how I had helped out at my home church with the worship and all he said was ''Great! you can help me, then!''

So, next Sunday, I plan on going to EFC at 9 and then going to Pan de Vida after at 1030. I am really excited to go and really really excited that the church is obviously in English. =] I am not taking any classes in English, so it will be a nice break. =]

Wish me luck!



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