It´s hard to believe the first week of classes is over! Let´s see. So, by the second day here stuff was already pretty much locked into a routine! I do pretty much the exact same thing every day. I get up at 8, when my host mom is already gone over to her daughter´s house. It´s kind of nice not to have an audience for the whole morning routine thing. Oh, her shower was so hard to figure out at first!! It has like a bathtub, but it´s tiny, not really big enough to bathe in...then it has a showerhead on a hose, you know? But no shower curtain. Not even a rod for a shower curtain. So I´ve been trying to shower without getting water all over the floor?? I don´t get it.
So we have class at 9:30. Classes are harder than in Utah, I guess just because in Tim´s class we spoke a lot of English and here if we speak any at all she throws her "pelota de infierno" or ball of hell I guess? at us. (It´s a little orange bean bag). Oh, and whoever has the pelota at the end of the day has to do a punishment like dance like a ballerina, etc. So we have a break at 11, a traditional Spanish kind of snack time between breakfast and lunch, when you can go to a cafe nearby and get coffee and "pinchos" or yummy little sandwiches. Class starts up again at 11:30 and at 1 we switch to conversation (everything before having been grammar). Conversation is only an hour so we´re done at 2.
Then everyone goes home for lunch, which is a big deal here. Sometimes Marian and the grandkids come over for lunch, which is fun! I told Marian to only speak to me in Spanish though, which...I sometimes regret;) Yesterday though I played with Marina, the 4 year old, a little bit, which was really fun! She´s not as good at pretending like she understands me as adults are, so she thought I was a little weird, but I think we communicated ok! We danced and had fun. Anyway, in the afternoons I´ve been going walking with Clare and Jacinda to see the city. My host mom usually has stuff of her own going on - yesterday she had theater class which I thought was awesome. So we see each other again at 9ish for dinner.
We´ve been eating pretty interesting stuff! The first night she made a "torilla española" which is like an egg and potato casserole-y kind of thing. That was reeeally good. Then a bunch of nights I think she´s been in a hurry so we´ve been eating "patatas fritas" (like french fries-ish) and fried eggs. Oh, and french bread with every meal. Oh, the other day for lunch we had pasta with chorizo! That was yummy. OH, and the day before we had fried fish...only it was the WHOLE fish. Little trouts that had just gone like straight from the wrapper to the frying pan, skin, heads and all. They were good though!
Let´s see. This is probably the longest entry ever so I´ll end it here! I miss all of you and think of you all the time! I can´t wait to get home and see you all. Mucho amor from España!!!
