Survived the first week of classes!

Well, I survived my first week of classes! All of my classes are interesting, with a mixture of Lithuanian and American professors. I like having two Bible/theology classes as well. My psychology class is a little intimidating because I’m the only non-psychology major or minor and have had the least amount of psychology classes. In my Lithuanian language class, the professor speaks only in Lithuanian (Unless we really don’t understand her)! We are working on survival phrases and pronunciation. I’m surprised at how fast we are learning Lithuanian!
In this first week, I have already had some interesting adventures! On the second day of classes, I decided to the walk the half hour trek to school by myself (I thought I knew the way). Wrong! I got lost twice! Finally, I remembered 3 words from my Lithuanian class the previous day- atsiprasau (Excuse me), ‘angliskai’ (English), and ‘universitetas’ (university). These words were enough for a stranger to point me in the right direction. I finally made it to class with 5 minutes to spare!
This week I also started bell choir for the fun of it. What makes it interesting is that it is in Russian! I understand a lot of the musical terminology because that is in Italian and is somewhat similar to Spanish. They do try to translate for me, but sometimes they forget that I don’t speak Russian!
I’ve also realized that I’m not that great of a cook! Somehow, my oatmeal doesn’t turn out right and my rice looks more like porridge! Oh well! My roommates are already helping me a bit! We are supposed to make our own meals and buy our own groceries since there is no meal plan. Each floor has a kitchen for us to use.
Last Sunday, I met my roommates and they are very nice. They are from the Ukraine and have let me try some of their Ukrainian food, which is pretty good. Usually, I eat dinners with them and we cook together. We have tea everyday and usually for every meal. Drinking alcohol is also very common and it is surprising to me how often people will drink it at dinner.
Well, that is all for now! I will try to post pictures soon!