Estimado UW Madison, I miss you.

Yesterday, saw Slumdog Millionaire in theaters. Happiness rating: 10

Today I had class from 11 - 1. Happiness rating: 8 (it's still class)

Currently at 4pm happiness rating: 0. Welcome to the story of themost frustrating experiences I have had at PUCP...

Long story short I ended up signing up for a class that I didn't want and did not sign up for the class I was supposed to. I realized the mistake. No problem, I got this. I e-mailed our international liaison to find out the needed steps to correct this error.

Reply: Talk to Javier Oshira in Estudios Generales Letras.

Ok, well she could have sent a complete sentence but at least I have a name and a place to go.

Now, the PUCP campus is not large, but there are quite a few buildings and I am not yet familiar with them all. I ventured to the campus map to find this mysterious Estudios Generales Letras. No such building. Closest thing: Estudios Generales Ciencias. Hell, I'll give it a go.

Building is closed until 2. Whatever, I'm patient so an hour isn't that bad. 2pm rolls around and I'm told that I am in fact in the wrong building. Joy. So I walk to the other side of campus (generally where I just came from) to learn that Javier won't be in until 3pm. What's another 40 minutes when this is the guy who can actually help me, right? Ha, wrong. I was sent on such a wild goose chase after this that I'll just skip to the good part. I arrived in the office of Claudia, the woman I contacted by e-mail in the first place. My sign-up sheet was sitting in front of her and all she did -- oh you'll like this -- was cross out the class I didn't want and write down which one I did.

After several experiences similar to this one on campus, I'm starting to think people get their kicks from sending the exchange students to the wrong destination. Ha, good one. You got me.

To top it all off, the crazy micro I took home stopped about 5 blocks after I wanted to get off. On the walk home, the wonderful catcalls of Peru! Normally, I can handle the whistles and the commonly heard comments such as "hola, blanca" (which can only be translated to "Hey, white chick") but today...wish I brought my ninja stars with me.

For all of you who work with the UW student center and Learn@UW, cherish it. Appreciate it every day. I never thought I'd say this but that Oracle system (yeah Merc employees, ORACLE) may be the most brilliant system yet.