Monday
I got placed in classes! I got put in "book 4" which means nothing to either you or me. Unfortunately, my class chunk this week is from 12:30-3:45, chops my day in half and means I have to eat lunch at school. Which makes it hard to prepare lunches. Turns out eating gluten free, dairy free, and vegetarian in Spain is much harder than I thought. It's going to be a hungry 20-some days full of Spanish tortillas.
I've also suddenly lost the ability to communicate with my host mother. Yesterday I could, today I can't. Spanish, you can't explain that.
Tuesday
We got to sleep in! So that's nice. Classes were still kind of boring today, nothing new. But we finally got our metro cards, so we can ride the metro with wild and free abandon! Then went to the grocery store to get snacks, because Europe doesn't snack nearly as much as we do in the US generally. Or maybe it's just me. I love snacks. Then we had dinner with our host mom, the American boys, one of the boy's girlfriend, and her roommate. So it was a big dinner of paella (which I couldn't eat but it looked so good) with lots of talking. It bugs me that I can't understand everything though and it really tires me out trying to understand. Then my roommate and I went to meet the other two girls from CMU to get gelato. We couldn't find any, but we ate dessert pastries and sat and talked anyways.
Wednesday
More classes, still boring. I think my reading and comprehension level is above some of my classmates' but my speaking level is definitely below. The discrepancy between my levels makes it hard for me to feel like I'm being challenged, but I also feel like an idiot every time I open my mouth.
But after classes we went and hung out in Retiro (the big park near our school) and ate gelato (or in my case sorbet) then walked to the Reina Sofia for our trip with the school. It's a nice museum that used to be a hospital actually. It has more modern art than the Prado, so today we got to see two Picassos and two Miros. We saw the Guernica which was really cool to see in person. I'm not a huge Picasso fan, but the Guernica does have a lot of feeling in it. War, man, it's no good. Especially bombing unsuspecting cities.
Unfortunately, the metro ride home was an hour long and I did it by myself. I was quite hot and tired and bored. The high today was 91, I guess I got the heat I wanted! I wore a maxi dress today and it was just too much fabric. And too much sweat. Too bad this weekend is supposed to be up near 100...
I got placed in classes! I got put in "book 4" which means nothing to either you or me. Unfortunately, my class chunk this week is from 12:30-3:45, chops my day in half and means I have to eat lunch at school. Which makes it hard to prepare lunches. Turns out eating gluten free, dairy free, and vegetarian in Spain is much harder than I thought. It's going to be a hungry 20-some days full of Spanish tortillas.
I've also suddenly lost the ability to communicate with my host mother. Yesterday I could, today I can't. Spanish, you can't explain that.
Tuesday
We got to sleep in! So that's nice. Classes were still kind of boring today, nothing new. But we finally got our metro cards, so we can ride the metro with wild and free abandon! Then went to the grocery store to get snacks, because Europe doesn't snack nearly as much as we do in the US generally. Or maybe it's just me. I love snacks. Then we had dinner with our host mom, the American boys, one of the boy's girlfriend, and her roommate. So it was a big dinner of paella (which I couldn't eat but it looked so good) with lots of talking. It bugs me that I can't understand everything though and it really tires me out trying to understand. Then my roommate and I went to meet the other two girls from CMU to get gelato. We couldn't find any, but we ate dessert pastries and sat and talked anyways.
Wednesday
More classes, still boring. I think my reading and comprehension level is above some of my classmates' but my speaking level is definitely below. The discrepancy between my levels makes it hard for me to feel like I'm being challenged, but I also feel like an idiot every time I open my mouth.
But after classes we went and hung out in Retiro (the big park near our school) and ate gelato (or in my case sorbet) then walked to the Reina Sofia for our trip with the school. It's a nice museum that used to be a hospital actually. It has more modern art than the Prado, so today we got to see two Picassos and two Miros. We saw the Guernica which was really cool to see in person. I'm not a huge Picasso fan, but the Guernica does have a lot of feeling in it. War, man, it's no good. Especially bombing unsuspecting cities.
Unfortunately, the metro ride home was an hour long and I did it by myself. I was quite hot and tired and bored. The high today was 91, I guess I got the heat I wanted! I wore a maxi dress today and it was just too much fabric. And too much sweat. Too bad this weekend is supposed to be up near 100...
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