And it begins...

Today is my first day of classes. They're just the typical first days, nothing too important, but I'm sure I'll receive tons of reading nonetheless. I'm just glad we're actually starting. All the orientations have tried to intimidate us so we're ready for the workload. So it was a little uneasy just waiting in the calm before the storm.
Since nothing of note has happened in school so far I'll just tell you what I did on my last few days of freedom. Friday, like I said, was a student government sponsored party at a local bar/club that opened to the beach. It was very well attended and lots of fun. Saturday morning I went on a boat ride from the capital's central port to a swimming island closer to our school. We saw some yellow fin tuna on the way. And the posted picture is on the return trip as we enter the bay. Other than that we only had a few get togethers with free food and drinks, these are always packed with students for obvious reasons, so I had a good opportunity to meet a lot of my fellow classmates. Hopefully we'll still have some time during the weekends to have some sort of social gatherings. I'll let you know how my classes are once we get into a normal schedule.