So it has been almost one month since I have been in Riga. The people and places I have been are amazing, and there is so much that I have done. Sadly if I were to write all of these adventures down it would take up probably 10 pages. So I will give you the highlights and some photos.
My roommate arrived in the last month and is from Germany. His name is Tim and he is very cool, and that is pretty much who I hang out with. There is also these 2 guys that live next to us and one from Montenegro(I had never heard of this country before either ha) and the other from Serbia. The one from Montenegro is about 6'5 300 pounds and is a really funny guy, the one from Serbia is about 27 years old and also very cool. They call me the American boy ha. Those 3 are the main people I go out with, hang out, etc..
So lets see school started here at the start of February, and is very easy!! It is nice, I am taking I think about 6 classes but one doesn't start till the first of March and is only till the end of April. I will tell you the other classes and a little about them. The first one is Latvian Language for beginners and is very fun. The teacher is really nice and she seems to like me a lot ha, I am the only person in the program here of I think 114 people. In our class tho there is only about 8 people and she always uses me as example and stuff, and the words here are very hard to prenounce so she always laughs at me and picks on me for the hard ones ha like ugunsdzesju dienest, which means fire station ha ha... and I cant say it for the life of me. But the class overall I think is going to be easy, I don't really take it to serious, because I wont recieve any credit for it from USU. So it basically just for fun. Oh ya this class is only Monday and Wednesdays at 1030 so its nice.
I am also taking Economic Anthropology with a teacher I think from Britain maybe, he is nice, but I think this class will probably be my hardest. He reads over the powerpoints that are full of words and maybe leaves them up for 2 minutes, and changes the slide. And for me it is really hard to right that fast, and to understand what he is talking about... I have no idea what it must be like for the people who don't speak english very well.... its gotta be rough. But in that class all we have to do is take and exam and right some papers by the end of the semester so I think it will be good.
Ha the next class I have is the History of the Baltic.... WOW this class is a joke. The teacher is bald and probably has the bushyiest eyebrows i have ever seen in my life. He talks really crappy english and always calls us friend. For example when he has a point that he wants us to know is he says "friends, now here is a really nice point that you should take not of." it is really quite funny and his English is probably about 5th grade level, with big vocabulary words ha... but its an hour and a half long and only on fridays at 230 so its not to bad. Except for the fact that we go out here on Thursday nights and getting to that class is a little rough ha. Also all we have to do for this class is write a paper that is like 10 pgs long... Ha and he said that we could do it on anything that compares our countries country to the one here in Latvia. On kid in prior class wrote about how the alchohol is different in this country compared to his. Ha so I think I am going to write about how the Eastern European women are different from American women:) ha it should be a good on. Oh ya I don't think i have mentioned that yet either, but the women here are probably the prettiest women I have ever seen. Dark hair and blues eyes.... whoooooo ha
Ha I forgot where I was.. all that talk about the girls here ha... ohhh ya the next class i have is Marketing Basics which seems good, also. I have only met with the professor once but it seems to be pretty easy also.
So that is my school schedule..... not to bad. So other than parties and night life here, we have went to a small sea side town called Jurmala and its nice. I would love to see it in the summer, ha because the whole day we were walking in about mid shin high snow so that wasn't very fun. And the ocean looked almost the same.... straight snow and ice as far as i could see, so I will make another trip there in the summer. Here are some pictures... I donno how to add them yet, so I hope this works...
Ha ha I wish.... the next on is the real one
ya that is the real one ha. And behind us the the Gulf of Riga... that you can't see because it is swallowed by snow.
Oh ya also here through the program I am in they set up adventures or trips for us... The one that I am really excited for is the one that is called the Sea Battle, we go from Talinn Estonia, from Tallinn we get on a big fairy with room, 2 clubs and such, and go to Stockholm Sweden. It is 1 night there and 1 night back. It is pretty much like a party i heard... the spots of 50 filled up in about 7 hours here... so it must be good ha.. there are 2000 students from all over Europe who go on this boat. So it should be fun. That one is at the first of April. The next one which is this next weekend. March 6 and 7 we go around Latvia by bus and look at the sights that this place has to offer. We stay in a guest house somewhere and have a good time then see sights. So that should be a good time also.
Oh ya, my parents bought there plane tickets to Amsterdam the other day, so they are coming to visit in the middle of May. We are going to Poland and they come to Riga, and then back to Amsterdam. It should be really fun!
Well tonight we are having a party at our dorm, I need to go buy some food and stuff, so I will write again, soon or maybe in another month :)
Also here are some other pictures.
This is my room in the Dorms. Nice huh ha
View out of our window... say hello to mother Russia ha
A little party we had... the theme was Carnival.. Which means to the girls from Spain that the men dress like women and girls dress like guys... don't ask me why..
