This is what I learned in class today. First day of classes, woke up late. I have an issue with setting my alarm clock for the right time. We're working on that. Otherwise, class... it's pretty basic. I had completely different classes today than I did yesterday. We had geography, oral expression, literature, and culture. Oral expression is for speaking in Spanish with one another and our prof. just walks around to help us. It's nice, and I made a friend from Taiwan in the class! Geography will be... interesting. It's super introductory right now, but it's about all the parts of Spanish geography, not just the land... and really, not just Spain. We looked at the Spanish territories and even Portugal. I like literature (surprise, surprise). We're not reading any entire novels (que lastima!) but doing a survey of literature from different time periods and how they influence modern writers. Plus, we played a game in class today. How cool is that? And my ultima clase (last class) was culture. It's really short (only 10 hours this semester) which is muy triste (really sad). The prof. is crazy- but awesome. We talked about how Spanish people like to stare at others and don't shower for a long amount of time because there are lots of droughts. Yeah, less than 5 min people, and I'm succeeding, but as soon as I'm back in the States, hour long shower, baby.
Then we walked home..... after we got lost. Luckily, we found some girls from our program. One of them is in my classes, so we recognized her and followed them until we could at least get on our map. Yeah... the map they gave us of the city doesn't freaking have the university on it. It's really dumb, but now, I think we know what we're doing, so we'll walk back tomorrow and then to school again on Friday because we don't know how long it takes us. Anyway, we were lost. We had an adventure and saw more of the city outside of Plaza Mayor. That being said we got back really late and ate lunch late because of it, but Katie and I finally ate all of our lunch. It was tuna (but it looked like steak, how weird!) and green beans with oranges for dessert. Also, since mi maleta (suitcase) finally arrived, we gave Belen our gifts for her and got to share some of the chocolates I got her, MMMM!
Right after lunch, we left to figure out why are phones cost money. It was a sad day because we couldn't siesta... craptastic. Anyway, it's because there's a connection fee, but after it's free. Also, we found our exact phone and plan at a different store for 30 less euros. We tried to return our phones, but apparently, you can't do that. We want to check at the other store to see if that's true. The employees there are much nicer anyway. We are even setting up an intercambio (language exchange) with one of the girls because she's taking English classes! In any case, the phone situation is really stupid and kind of put a damper on my fantastic day.
We decided to stay en casa since we've been out the past two nights and had pizza (SO MUCH BETTER HERE!) and rotillas (which is like pudding with a cracker on top... I don't know, but also very good). I also put all my crap away. I'll probably need to organize a little more, but it's sufficient work for now. Katie and I also watched La Casa de los Espiritus. It's normally in English, but this was dubbed in Spanish. It was really funny because we couldn't figure out why they were using vosotros (a verb form really only found in Spain) since it takes place in South America. Then Katie realized that it's in Castellano (what we speak here). We also learned cabron, which is a he-goat (there you go, Andrea!), bitch, bastard, a bunch of other ugly words of the sort. It was interesting to watch it in Espanol because I'd only seen it English, but this is Vino-a-go-go land and I must do as the locals do!
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