Colegio. Three weeks in.

By now I almost know the schedule, but it is so weird and random that I sometimes have to guess. Not that it matters too much. I have math in one form or other (math electivo or comun) almost every day, but physics comunes once a week, on Friday so we haven't really had it yet because of a presentation the first week and a holiday last week. So far my impressions: three classes will be quite easy for me, one pretty easy, three rather hard and two pretty much not graded.
Those easiest classes would be math e+c, English e+c, and physics e+c. Math is stuff I covered three years ago and is super boring and (my opinion) not that well taught. English goes in this group for obvious reasons, and since it isn't even at a level where I will learn Spanish, it will also be boring. Physics will at least interest me if only for the new vocabulary, but also to relearn what I forgot after my cram for the SAT, but judging by the classes so far and the test I just got a 7 (100%) on, it should be easy.
Next level includes chem. Since I had Mr. Fox (for anyone unfamiliar he is an abysmal teacher) I may not have learned quite what I was supposed to but I think that I know enough to make the class relatively easy. It is the BSing for why that will be slightly more difficult.
History and filosofy will be okay, I think, and I think I get special grading. My group for a group project we did gave a presentation today on the Punic wars and although I said the least and worst (not surprisingly at all), I think I still got a good grade. Filosofy is weird and we just started a unit on sexuality and individual. It was kind of odd that one student asked (translated for your convenience) "is homosexuality an illness or preference?" and got the difinitive response of "preference/choice. There is no person that is born gay." while I certainly respect opinions, I don't when they are presented as facts. Oh well I think I will get past the (by CA standards) old fashioned beliefs and that class shouldn't be too bad.
In the hard category will be bio because my one year of bio is not what we are learning. Having missed thae learning part, I think I will do quite badly on the test tomorrow, not to mention all the new special vocabulary I will have to learn. Luckily, that doesn't matter.
Both of my teachers of lenguage (spelling mixed english/spanish) have told me that I am graded specially (or pretty much not at all), so those classes will be easy but not boring as I will learn a lot of Spanish, I suppose.
Not that any of the grades matter because they aren't sent back to the US (even if they were, they wouldn't know what to do with a 6,3). The other day I was feeling quite sick of school when I reminded myself of that, and now it isn't nearly so bad, almost like a game. Still not a big fan of the uniform, but what can you do?
Chico is in the centro de alumnos, the student government thing at our school, so I have gone with him to the after school meetings. We were going to go to an all Chile centro de alumnos thing at a school near Concepción this weekend, but I'm not quite sure if it's been cancelled. At any rate the centro (only 5 students or so) has been planning the aniversario, which strikes me as kind of like homecoming week. There is a king and queen and lots of competitions. I don't completely get it, but I am already excited anyhow.
It is good to have a friend that drives because Chelo (marcelo) can save us some money and time getting home for lunch and today he gave five of us a ride to the small mall thing after school and we ate ice cream. He had a Nissan truck when I first got here, but I think that broke down so now he has a fiat car thing with two seats up front and a covered truck bed thing in back, which is where we ride mostly.