"I feel a little bit like I am listening to the teacher in Charlie Brown “mahwa, mahwa, mahwa….”"

Ha! I felt exactly the same way here my first year. In fact, we used to say that it was like somebody was talking, and you could hear parts of it, and then other parts were being censored out with a loud noise that made what the person was saying indecipherable.

I am jealous of your candies.