Most Googled Terms
I for some random reason and wondered what the most googled terms were in the world. Here are the results: the data happens to be from 2006
So my classes may prove to be difficult. I have three large course packs that are a collection of photocopied texts in both English and Spanish. All in all there is about a 1,000 pages of text I need to read, with two pages photocopied per page. By Tuesday (Monday is a holiday), I have to read for my Contemporary International Relations class from Napolonic Europe, up to the end of the first Cold War. That's a lot of history in one weekend. Anyway, I guess I'll have to do that. I'm not really looking forward to the gauntlet 150 page section written about the Russian Revolution in Spanish. So school is going. My first real week went smoothly and it's straight forward enough. I'm sure there are things I may miss in lecture but hopefully I can pick them up in the readings and slideshows online. On Tuesday I had to go to the Immigrations office to get my student visa. I had to be at the office at 7:30 a.m. After 5 hours or beurocracy I emmerged a bruised, broken spirit with 200 pesos less. This also was technically unnecessary because I could have gone to Uruguay half way throught the semester to renew my 90 day tourist visa, but the program director wanted it by the book. Also, I was looking into the courses I'd like to take and if I want to do Accounting and Finance it is going to be one quarter extra because I have to get to 225 credits to take the CPA.
Can someone please update me on the Olympics or help me find a place to watch it online because the only thing I know is that Felps is some sort of genetic hybrid fish-man, and that the only medal Argentina has is a bronze in female Tae-kwon-do. I tried NBC's website and they told me that I had to be in the United States to watch it.
My roommates left for Iguazu Falls today because it's an extended weekend so I be holding up shop at the apartment for 4 days or so. I decided not to go for a variety of reasons: among them, I'm not vaccinated against the yellow fever, I can't go into Brasil (which is what they plan on doing), a 16 hour bus ride, and I'm lazy. The Brazil thing is rather curious. Western Europeans have no problem getting into Brazil, simply a passport will suffice, but us Yankees have to go through the arduous process of a visa, the same process in fact that a Brazilian would have to go through to come to the US. I looked into it online and it is painstaking and expensive. I wonder why Brazil would impose such a rule when it likely has a huge dampening effect on tourism. So I don't know. Alright that's all, tomorrow soccer and basquet by day and probably a boliche by night.
- bebo (some kind of social networking site)
- myspace
- world cup
- metacafe (some kind of youtube knock off)
- radioblog
- wikipedia
- video
- rebelde (don't know)
- mininova(a site to illegally download things)
- wiki
So my classes may prove to be difficult. I have three large course packs that are a collection of photocopied texts in both English and Spanish. All in all there is about a 1,000 pages of text I need to read, with two pages photocopied per page. By Tuesday (Monday is a holiday), I have to read for my Contemporary International Relations class from Napolonic Europe, up to the end of the first Cold War. That's a lot of history in one weekend. Anyway, I guess I'll have to do that. I'm not really looking forward to the gauntlet 150 page section written about the Russian Revolution in Spanish. So school is going. My first real week went smoothly and it's straight forward enough. I'm sure there are things I may miss in lecture but hopefully I can pick them up in the readings and slideshows online. On Tuesday I had to go to the Immigrations office to get my student visa. I had to be at the office at 7:30 a.m. After 5 hours or beurocracy I emmerged a bruised, broken spirit with 200 pesos less. This also was technically unnecessary because I could have gone to Uruguay half way throught the semester to renew my 90 day tourist visa, but the program director wanted it by the book. Also, I was looking into the courses I'd like to take and if I want to do Accounting and Finance it is going to be one quarter extra because I have to get to 225 credits to take the CPA.
Can someone please update me on the Olympics or help me find a place to watch it online because the only thing I know is that Felps is some sort of genetic hybrid fish-man, and that the only medal Argentina has is a bronze in female Tae-kwon-do. I tried NBC's website and they told me that I had to be in the United States to watch it.
My roommates left for Iguazu Falls today because it's an extended weekend so I be holding up shop at the apartment for 4 days or so. I decided not to go for a variety of reasons: among them, I'm not vaccinated against the yellow fever, I can't go into Brasil (which is what they plan on doing), a 16 hour bus ride, and I'm lazy. The Brazil thing is rather curious. Western Europeans have no problem getting into Brazil, simply a passport will suffice, but us Yankees have to go through the arduous process of a visa, the same process in fact that a Brazilian would have to go through to come to the US. I looked into it online and it is painstaking and expensive. I wonder why Brazil would impose such a rule when it likely has a huge dampening effect on tourism. So I don't know. Alright that's all, tomorrow soccer and basquet by day and probably a boliche by night.
Comments
Argentina is kicking some ass in soccer though. Messi is so good that he should be illegal. Ronaldinho is also back in spectacular form. The US got eliminated in the group stage and will not participate in the quarterfinals.
Michael Phelps has 7 gold medals, and he won the last event (100m butterfly) by .01 s. Tonight (Beijing time) is the 100m final, and I'll update you on who wins that.
Otherwise, China is leading the gold medal standing (an example of American propaganda - since China is expected to win the gold medal count this year, the US decided to rank countries by overall count, in which the US is still expected to be tops. The rest of the world ranks countries by number of golds) by 11 as of 11:02 AM, Aug 16 Beijing Time.