Happy Inauguration Day!

Today was my first day of class. Early in the morning we went to the University of Havana to receive our language class assignments. Remarkably I was placed in the Literature class with three other NYU students. Originally we were supposed to be in a class with other university students, but due to schedule and Spanish level issues we have a private class with Prof. Jose Luis. He's an old Cuban, very sweet and incredibly smart! During our little intro session we sat outside on some benches in the "Cabezon" a terraced park on campus with giant head statues of great academics. During our hour long chat he covered so much stuff relating both to different types of Cuban literature (poetry, short stories, novels) and the history of the city. He seems to know everything about everything (and not just Cuban stuff) and I'm very excited to learn more from him. Later we watched Obama's inauguration speech, yay! Then spent the afternoon mostly indoors due to a rather impressive storm that's hitting the north side of the city right now (the side we're on!). The waves on the Malecón are huge and the sea water is flooding far into the plaze below the hotel! Tomorrow we have more Spanish class than we'll watch some of the docs from last years students. After we hope to go on a tour of the old city, pending better weather!

Best,
Camila