LEAVES OF "CLASS"

Hi guys,
back to my blog to tell you just a quick flavour (should I say flavor?) of what's going on in this SUSI 2009 group.
Literature stuff around, buddies, and professors Messenger and Hales have shown us new perspectives on American Literature drifting from Hawthorne to Whitman, from Alger to Fitzgerald...you know what? sometimes I've got this feeling that it doesn't really matter what you say in a Literature class...no matter how strange it can be...your teacher is always gonna say something like "mmm that's a good point", if the class takes place in America, chances of getting that kind of answer are even greater as the respect that professors show for all us, no matter where we come from, or how obscure our accent can be, is something that I do appreciate.
Something I haven't recovered from, I must admit, is the way professors face their classes as far as outfits are concerned...for me it's absolutely shocking how casual they are when they're teaching (they can even show up holding their bikes on their shoulders with a helmet on) and how formal they are when they celebrate any kind of welcoming banquet or something like that!!! And it is shocking because we focus things right the other way round in Spain, can you imagine? yeap, that's right...I wear a suit and tie everyday in class and turn into my casual look when I have any kind of celebration in which students are involved (you know, pretending I'm younger than what I really am and trying to avoid being pathetic...if possible!!!).
Anyway, nice, enriching, enlightening and very interesting classes which will fortunately continue tomorrow in the morning and afternoon.
After classes Manto planned to go to the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art and I went with her just to nose around as it was the free access day and a free jazz concert was planned for this evening in the museum's terrace. What can I say? Thank God jazz chilled me out a lot, because some of the works shown in the museum fitted the perfectly assumed pattern of these artworks which mean really little under long pretentious names like "winding fan from a helicoidal perspective in a skeptical mood"...WHATEVER... sorry if I sound illiterate!!
Anyway, back home and crucial discovery for my life at SUSI: TV SET IS WORKING OK at the second floor lounge of our dorms!!!!! Rushed into my kitchen, prepared the most basic sandwich and enjoyed American commercials (could be watching 'em for hours!!). Thanks Neil for setting things up so well...
Now I just need to know when GREAT Doctor House is on...that will make my day.
See you soon!!

Javier Barbero