Historians, cooler than you think

16712 today we had yet more class, which was unexciting, however after talking to claudia, i will be moving up to the advanced class. i described my predicament in my current class, that there is lots of grammar, and i believe i would better benefit from being treated like a child (learning the language from scratch, conversationally) than being shown grammar charts. my issue is i dont know the names of these tenses and forms in English, so i cant draw comparisons. charting a sentence as to where the subject and object and verb (those are all things in sentences right?) and identifying gerunds, isnt going to help, because i dont know what those are. however (despite my heavy use of slang here) i believe i have a better than tenuous grasp of English. if i were to speak spanish, and be corrected on the spot when using the wrong form/tense i would more quickly/comfortably acquire fluency (hence my being treated like a child, you dont show a Johnny 3 year old [or whenever you teach kids to speak] a grammar chart with the appropriate endings and conjugations when he says "i eated lunch today at school, and it was good" you correct him "no Johnny 3 year old, you ATE lunch today at school, and it was good" anyways, we will see how this class goes, if it goes horribly awry, i can always swallow my pride and drop down, ill probably never see these people again... after our normal language class we had a history lesson, this one covered 1880 through 1955. which goes through the modernization process (building of railroads, use of refrigerated boats to ship foodstuffs overseas) to the squalor that was the first quarter of the twentieth century, and the rise of Peron, and Peronismo. while the history is all cool n stuff, it can be easily found on the internet ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Per%C3%B3n ). but you cant learn about our history professor on the internet (probably, i dunno i didnt look very hard). he is actually an ethnic Hungarian, speaks Hungarian, Polish, English, Spanish, Portuguese, French and i think he said something about a minimal knowledge of German too. anyways, he was quite knowledgeable, and after class i pestered him about the rise of Argentina (the whole becoming the breadbasket of Europe while Europe was busy industrializing/killing each other, in the last half of the nineteenth century), and the Argentine attitude during World War One, and views on US Imperialism of the late nineteenth century, and what the next lecture will be on. i may end up grilling him on the Falklands/Melvinas conflict as i believe that will be what my project will be on. after class we went to get a new phone, as the roommate managed to lose it in the 2 hours that he had it (literally the only 2 hours it has been in his possession it was lost). and the two of us wandered our way back to the commuter station, and happened upon two of the girls in our neighborhood, chatted on the train, and then in a pastryshop eating, you guessed it pastries, and drinking coffee. now im home, bout to go read more, sorry there aint no pretty pictures to look at, maybe tomorrow (but probably not)