Los días primeros

Yesterday was my first full day here. We had orientation at the school at 10:30 and another one at 5. My madre helped me take the metro over to the school and then wrote my directions on how to take it home. Once I got to the school, I immediatly met another girl from MSU and we went into the computer lab because we were early for the metting. The meeting was done in Enligh, thank goodness. They told us we had another orinetation at 5 but could go home if we wanted or do whatever.

Most of us just stayed at the school and around it the whole day. I went with some other students from MSU walking around town and then we ate lunch. I went back to the school and checked my email and then this boy from MSU, Jeff, was here too. Him and I walked around a bit and found this really cool park. It had a huge play structure that was made out of red rope and it was like a climbing thing. After that we came back to the school and had our other orientation where we found out our schedules for our classes and things. After that we were allowed to go home or again do whatever we wanted. The MSU students that I had met in Detroit and I went out to a bar right by the school. We sat down and had some beers and peanuts. We just talked about our families here and were we wanted to travel and got to know each other better. Our professors were actually at the same bar so that was funny and then we met another student that is here for the year and has been since August so far. We asked him questions about the school and things like that. It was nice to get to know him. He smoked a lot and I wonder if he did before he was here or if it was something he picked up.

I went home after that and ate dinner with my little host brother who is 3. He is the cutest thing I have ever seen, he'll smile at me really big and then run and hide in the couch pillows. My other host brother is 15 and very nice. He's a swimmer and talks really fast Spanish so it is a bit hard to understand him all the time. My host sister is 18 but I haven't seen much of her. All we have really said to each other is Hola. I'm not so sure how that relationship is going to play out. After eating dinner, I talked to my mom on Skype along with Kelly R and it was nice to see their faces and here their voices. I then went to bed and am now at my school. We had to take a test this morning to test our proficency in Spanish. No one is sure what happens if we do bad on this test. So hopefully I did fine. Some of them were a bit hard and others were easy.

Later today at 5, which they call the afternoon, so thats odd. But anyway, we have a walking tour of downtown Valencia so that'll be fun. Tomorrow we have a daytrip to some Castle somewhere thats on a beach and then at night we have a group going out outing. So that'll be fun and I am looking forward to it. Nothing else has really been going on, I haven't been here long enough.

There are some big differences here though and I find them odd so I am going to write them down. The cars park in the middle of the street. Some cars will be angle parked and then cars will park behind them like parralel (spelling totally wrong). Then on the big roads there are just cars parked in the middle of the road and others have to go around them. I took a picture so make sure to look at it. The cereal bowls are super small here. Its so weird, they are the size of like cottage chesse bowls you get at restaurants in the US. The milk here is odd too, you don't have to refridgerate it until its open and it doesn't expire until like 4 months after you buy it. It seems that all the girls here have bangs, so us MSU students joke about how we all should get bangs to fit in. I'd look really funny with those because of my curly hair.

Things are good. I miss home but so does everyone else, so at least I am not alone.

I love and miss you all!!!