¡Que suerte!

This week was the first week of classes here and it was kind of a let down. The classes are very typical American classes with very typical American students. I was kind of hoping there would be some spaniards mixed in there. I got the worst possible schedule for traveling on weekends, class until 8pm on Thursday and class at 8:30am on Monday. The 8:30 one is every day(except Friday when we dont't have class) and I'm so sleepy in the morning. It's been rainy and dark so getting out of bed is muy dificil. My classes seem easy though so at least I won't be totally overloaded with work. These are the classes I am taking: Literatura española, Geografía de España, Producción oral y escrito(my favorite class), Civilización y cultura española y Nociones de gramática española. Three of them are repeats from last semester but I'm sure they will be different enough so that it'll still be interesting! I feel like I have already learned a lot in my grammar class, the professor is very laid back and doesn't really help with the answers. He kind of just waits until we figure it out on our own and then explains why. It's been a good refresher for little common mistakes. The teachers here love to play music during class, it's so cool.

Wednesday night we went to d'cuadros after dinner for tapas and tinto de verano. This place is my absolute favorite. The drinks are the best and only 2 euro, and then you get free tapas on top of that. And the tapas are the best I've had so far. It's perfect for when we are served a really bad dinner and we can just walk around the corner for some delicious food.

Last night we had an intercambio. ISA sets it up so that we can meet spaniards who want to practice speaking english, we meet and talk with them for a while in a bar setting and then we can plan to meet to practice english with them for 30 minutes and they practice spanish with us for 30 minutes. I think it'll be really helpful. I really need to work on extending my vocabulary, that's happening naturally here but I mean realllyyyyy extend it. I don't wanna waste time because I am only here for 4 months and I need to be an excellent spanish speaker come may 20th. We met two girls who we will probably meet up with next week, and one guy who spoke english really well so that should be easy.

After we went to d'cuadros(big surprise) for drinks and tapas. I think the constant and overwhelming inhalation of smoke made me sick so I cut out early and went home. Kind of disappointing because I was looking forward to going out.

I paid the deposit for the trip to Morocco which I am really excited for now. And I made a few other travel plans so it looks like the time is going to fly. The rain needs to end soon. It's been raining since Sunday night now. My umbrella is the most useful thing I brought with me and it looks like I'll be needing it again today but hopefully when Caitlin wakes up we can go do some shopping. I need a costume for Cadiz! But for now it's Friday morning and I don't have class again until Monday so I am in no rush to do anything.