Wo shi xuesheng

Today I started a weekly Chinese class. I took two semesters worth of Chinese when I was in college, but promptly forgot all but a few words. Although it starts to come back to me when I watch Chinese movies, and was also looking familiar to me last night when I finally, guiltily, reviewed a little. I skipped the very beginning course, where they teach you things like the four tones and how to pronounce "cuo," and was wondering if I should have been more ambitious--i.e. gone for a higher course. But I think I made the right choice, given that I really don't remember the characters and that this school uses traditional characters (whereas I learned simplified before).