El fin de semana (weekend)

Well not much new is really going on. Since the last time I wrote, I have been back to the park with the giant play structure. It is actually a 6 mile long garden/park that use to be a river that dried up. Thats the garden in my facebook pictures. It was so beautiful. I love that they have gardens and parks all over the place here.

Friday night, a group of us went out to a few different bars and discotecas. It was about 3 oclock by the time I got home. Saturday we went to Cullera, which was really pretty. It was a nice day and we mainly sat by the beach, talked, looked up Spanish words, and played cards. It was relaxing. At night we went out again, with everyone from our program. We met at a bar and got free, Agua de Valencia, an alcohol drink that Valencia is famous for. It was really good. It has vodka, orange juice, and champagne in it. We met some really good looking Spaniards at the clubs we went to later and spoke Spanish with them. It was fun. The night life here is CRAZY!!! People don't go out to discotecas until around 2 and if they go to the bar before it isn't until around midnight that they do. Last night walking on the street was crazy. People are over the place. Even older people that aren't teenagers, like 40 and up, go out and walk around super late at night. It's hard for me to keep up. Everyone knows I love sleep and I get tired really easily. Its fun to go out with everyone and a lot of fun but everywhere is so crowded.

Today after I woke up, my family was on their porch/patio/deck thing and I went out there. It was about 65 here today so they were doing work with their flowers and things. I also cried today, I was eating my breakfast and just thinking about my dad and how he poors me my glass of orange juice and how my mom wasn't there to tell me good morning. I went to the Art musuem with my friend Kaitlyn today and it was pretty neat. All the musuems are free on Sundays. We then went to a park and just layed down and read and listened to the Spanish we were hearing.

Tomorrow I start my classes. I am pretty excited because it'll keep me busy and hopefully improve my Spanish. Plus it is another way to meet more people. They have this thing called Intercambios (interchange) if you want one, where the school pairs you up with a Spanish speaker that knows English and wants to work on it more and you switch your time when hanging out between both languages. I'm pretty sure that I am going to do one because it'll give me a lot of practice and maybe my intercambio will be a handsome young spaniard. Probaly not but there is always hoping.

I don't know if I have mentioned this before but it is also really hard to adjust to the times of eating here. They eat breakfast when they wake up, obvisuly just like everyone else, but then they don't eat lunch until around 3 and dinner until 8 or later. My family eats around 9:30 or 10. The other night we didn't eat until 10:30. I was so hungry. I usually eat a orange to help statisfy my stomach until dinner, yes I like oranges now. Valencia is known for their oranges and they are soooo yummy. The food I have ate so far has been good. The first night I was here, I had potatoes and this pot pie thing. One night we had this mushroom soup which was mainly just brooth and pizza with ham on it and then chips and salsa. I ate the soup even though I don't like mushrooms but it was good. We had these fish fillets with green beans, carrots, and potatoes. That was yummy. Last night we had potatoes and these really good chicken things that I thought were chicken fingers but they weren't because she called them something else but I don't know what it was. They tasted kinda creamy. Oh well it was yummy anyway. For lunch we have bocadillos which a sub looking things, I get cheese and turkey on mine along with apple, orange, or bannana. Its a nice mix.

Sorry that this is always random stuff but I need to remember. I should probaly buy a journal to write my own stuff down that way everyone doesn't have to read the boring stuff.

I love you!!!