Spanish University culture

Here things are going fine. I am still waiting for university to start. I mean there is no problem for me not to go there, obviously. But still, it's weird if the purpose you went somewhere is still not there. Classes were supposed to start yesterday, but there was some saints’ day, so everything closed. Today there were no classes either, no clue why. Maybe they will start tomorrow, maybe not =) Anyways, Spanish bureaucracy is actually exactly the way you imagine it. I was prepared for that and actually positively surprised today as we only had to ask 5 people in the vicerectorate to get to the person that knew something about our "alumno visitante" (visiting student) program.
So we'll go to the nice and sooo close uni again tomorrow. (It's somewhere in the outskirts of Madrid, and you actually cross fields, or stuff that looks like that, on the 15 minutes bus ride from the terminal Metro station to uni.) And yes, it's true, the do all smoke inside the building (there are actually signs saying that this is forbidden, but this seems not to trouble anyone too much) and they were all drinking beer in the university canteen this morning. (Ok, it was already half past eleven, so this should be ok, no...) Hehe. I guess we Swiss need to jump a bit over our shadows and try to integrate. We are working on it; especially on the drinking part, not that early but tinto de verano and cerveza are definitely nice. =)