Back to School

After a pretty strange year, with one semester spent between tears and almost having professors beg me to hand in my papers and one amazing semester spent in Spain, I'm back to my beloved Concordia University... which seems determined to kick my behind in what I'm hoping to be my final year (keeping fingers crossed for Friday). After two days of seeing very few people I know (most of my friends have already graduated), today I finally got to see lots of familiar faces, including teachers. You know you've spent too much time in school when all teachers know you, although you haven't had any courses with some of them. Anyway... If I make it through the next ten Mondays, it means I'm much tougher than I think. On this day I have 4 out of the 5 courses I'm taking, I spend 10 hours at school and almost 2 riding the subway train, I have to run like crazy between buildings and I only have a two-hour break between 4.00 and 6.00 pm. I'll be having one or two exams each week, starting with September 24, essays to hand in just as often (starting this Wednesday) and all my professors seem determined to convince us that C is a good grade... pffff!
The upside of it is that I simply love 4 of my 5 courses (one of them is French, go figure... although it's still grammar, which is a plus), as they all concern Spain, from Literature to History. I'm also happy with the teachers I have and the material is unbelievably interesting. On top of all this, I'm more hyped than ever and ready to face this amazing year Concordia has in store for me.
One thing that I finally learned, making sure that I'll never forget it again: Guernica, Picasso's famous painting, returned to Spain in... 1981!!! No wonder I'm so interested in this painting and agreed to spend some good minutes looking like a fool in the middle of the Reina Sofia Museum! By the way: the horse is Franco and the bull is Spain. Hmmm! One of these days I should try and comment Guernica, see if I got it right.