It was a very eventful weekend that is deffinatly for sure.
Friday we went to the beach and layed in the sun all day. The water is cold but not as cold as the great lakes are in May. We just dipped our feet. At first it was just Jana, Kaitlyn, Becky and I but then Jeff came and met up with us. It was fun to have American friend talking time in all english. After the beach Jeff headed his way home and the 4 of us girls went into town to get some Sangria and tapas. We went into town and got a liter of Sangria, it was really good but strong. We then went to find another place for more Sangria and ran into these 4 boys who looked American. They walked passed us and then walked back towards us. Turns out that they are in the Navy and were in port here until Monday morning. Then they were headed back to the USA. Of course we were all jealous because they are going home and we still have to stay here. But they have been out since September so they deserve to go home more than us. Anyway, they were all really nice and it was nice to see American boys and hangout with other Americans. We decided that we were going to met up with them Saturday during the day too.
Saturday came and the 4 of us girls went into the center of town to met the boys. We had some agua de valencia first (the drink most famous here, orange juice, vodka and champagne.) It is really good. Anyway so then we met up with the boys. We just went around place to place all day, eating and drinking. The boys bought everything so that was deffinatly nice. It was a bit drama filled though because some of the boys and girls got really drunk. Becky and I were the sober ones because we had not drank enough to be drunk. Anyway it was fun though and we ended up splitting from the boys. It was a fun day and we had a good time.
Today I met with Kaitlyn this morning and got my paper all written. Then I went home for lunch and now I am back with Kaitlyn and Jana doing more homework. Lets see what else I have to tell you guys, I finished the thrid Twilight book and am going to start the fourth one soon. They are good but I really love Harry Potter more. Tuesday I have a paper due for literary analysis which is the one that I wrote today. I have a phonetics quiz Wednesday and a rough draft of my research paper due Friday. We have five days of school this week which really sucks. Saturday we go to the Oceanographic park in Valencia. It's in the City of Arts and Sciences here which is really cool. I haven't been over there much because it is far from my school.
Anyway so everything is going well, my food is good, school is going well and things are good with the host family and my friends here.
Anyway, hope everyone had a good weekend.
Love you
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Hola
Things have been going well at school this week so there is not much new to report.
I have a paper due today that I worked really hard on so hopefully I get a good grade. We don't have school tomorrow so some of us are going to the beach. Its suppose to be 76. YAY. I miss the warm weather.
This weekend I have a lot of homework to do. I have a paper due on tuesday and then on thursday I have a rough draft for another paper due. But I am going to try and enjoy myself too.
Sarah comes in 2 weeks from today. I am so excited. We are going to have a great time in Rome, Paris and Barcelona.
Things have been going well with my host family. I talk to my host family more now. Mostly just my host mom but its still nice. All the food I have been eating has been good. I really enjoy it. Everything is a lot healthier here so it'll be interesting to see what happens when I go back to the USA.
I still talk to my belgium friend for those of you that are wondering. He is coming to visit the last week in April. 2 days after my sister leaves, he comes. So that'll be nice. Then I will be heading back to the USA on a thursday and staying in DC until sunday.
But yeah things are going good. Sorry my life is boring so I don't have more to report.
Love you
I have a paper due today that I worked really hard on so hopefully I get a good grade. We don't have school tomorrow so some of us are going to the beach. Its suppose to be 76. YAY. I miss the warm weather.
This weekend I have a lot of homework to do. I have a paper due on tuesday and then on thursday I have a rough draft for another paper due. But I am going to try and enjoy myself too.
Sarah comes in 2 weeks from today. I am so excited. We are going to have a great time in Rome, Paris and Barcelona.
Things have been going well with my host family. I talk to my host family more now. Mostly just my host mom but its still nice. All the food I have been eating has been good. I really enjoy it. Everything is a lot healthier here so it'll be interesting to see what happens when I go back to the USA.
I still talk to my belgium friend for those of you that are wondering. He is coming to visit the last week in April. 2 days after my sister leaves, he comes. So that'll be nice. Then I will be heading back to the USA on a thursday and staying in DC until sunday.
But yeah things are going good. Sorry my life is boring so I don't have more to report.
Love you
Monday, March 23, 2009
Back to school!
Well we are back at school today. Oh joy. I got an 80 on my phonetics quiz so at leat I am doing better in that class now.
The rest of the weekend went really well. Friday I went shopping with Kaitlyn and out to lunch. I bought gifts for those of you back home and got myself a new pair of sandals :). I spent a lot of money so hopefully I have some left when I return home. At night, I just did homework.
Saturday, Kaitlyn and I got together and did more homework. We had a whole novel to read for our literary anylsis class. We finished it and talked about it together. My family came home Saturday night, or my host parents, since my siblings were already home. They had a good time away but they missed me. It was nice to speak Spanish with them again and enjoy her home cooking.
Yesterday I finished the second twilight book and started the thrid. I read outside on our patio because the sun was shinning. It was so nice and of course I did some homework. We had chicken paella again for lunch yesterday. I am going to miss it so much. It is my favorite food here. I talked to my parents last night and that was good. I sign up for summer classes tomorrow and then I will be able to start figuring out my fall and spring schedule. It is hard to schedule them and even harder being here. But whatever, I know that I can figure it out.
This week is not very busy. Thats nice. We don't have school this Friday but I am going to stay in Valencia. Hopefully go to the beach if its nice enough outside. Well I am off to watch some online tv before class starts.
LOVE YOU
The rest of the weekend went really well. Friday I went shopping with Kaitlyn and out to lunch. I bought gifts for those of you back home and got myself a new pair of sandals :). I spent a lot of money so hopefully I have some left when I return home. At night, I just did homework.
Saturday, Kaitlyn and I got together and did more homework. We had a whole novel to read for our literary anylsis class. We finished it and talked about it together. My family came home Saturday night, or my host parents, since my siblings were already home. They had a good time away but they missed me. It was nice to speak Spanish with them again and enjoy her home cooking.
Yesterday I finished the second twilight book and started the thrid. I read outside on our patio because the sun was shinning. It was so nice and of course I did some homework. We had chicken paella again for lunch yesterday. I am going to miss it so much. It is my favorite food here. I talked to my parents last night and that was good. I sign up for summer classes tomorrow and then I will be able to start figuring out my fall and spring schedule. It is hard to schedule them and even harder being here. But whatever, I know that I can figure it out.
This week is not very busy. Thats nice. We don't have school this Friday but I am going to stay in Valencia. Hopefully go to the beach if its nice enough outside. Well I am off to watch some online tv before class starts.
LOVE YOU
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
London, Dublin, and Las Fallas
Well hello there.
So London was amazing. I love it. So beautiful and so many things to see. The accents there are great and everyone is so nice. I can't even explain how much fun I had and how I wished that I was doing the Literature in London Program. I love London and can not wait to go back at some point in my life.
So we left friday afternoon and arrived to London. We got to our hostel where a pipe had been broken in our room so we got switched to another hostel. I was a little pissed because I picked a hostel in the district my sister told me to and then it didn't work anyway. The other hostel was nice and it wasn't in a bad location. It just wasn't where we were expecting to be. We went out to dinner and it was really yummy. The next day I had a panic attack because I lost my passport but turns out it was at the restaurant. Thankgod. So all is well with that.
Saturday we woke up and went around the city, we saw the London Eye, Big Ben, Parliament, Buckingham Palace, Tower of London, Tower Bridge, Kings Cross Station and other random things. We had a really good time and enjoyed seeing the city. I also fulfilled one of my lifelong dreams that day, standing on platform 9 3/4. It was great to finally do it. Sunday we got up and went to tour again. We saw Changing of the Guards at the Palace and went to Hyde Park, Covent Market, Picadilly Circus, and Oxford Street. At Hyde Park, I saw the Peter Pan Statue, which has been another dream of mine. So yay. I travled and did 2 things on my to do list for my life.
Monday morning we got up super early to catch our 6:30 am flight to Dublin. Well our train was late and we ended up missing our flight. We had to pay 71 euros to get on the next one. Luckly we did not miss that one and we arrived in Dublin safely. All went well there. We napped and then walked around the city. There is not that much to do in Dublin and next time I go to Ireland, I want to go to the countryside. Dublin reminded me a lot of the USA but that could be because there were so many Americans there for St Patrick's Day. Anyway, that day we went to the Guiness Storehouse. That was cool and fun. We got to pull our own pint of Guiness for free and drink it for free. Of course I didn't drink the whole think since it was so digusting. Haha. Anywway after that we went back to the hostel for a nap because it was about 8pm. We ended up falling asleep and never getting up because we were so tired. We slept in until 10 am on Tuesday.
We went into town for St Patrick's Day. We watched the parade, which was really cool, and then went to St Patricks Cathedral and Christ Church Cathedral. A lot was closed because of the "holiday". There was so many people there. The streets were just crowded. It was a good time though. We went back to the hostel and got ready to enjoy the night out on St Patrick's Day. I know everyone will be sad when I say this but, I didn't get drunk. We drink just not enough to get drunk. We met some IRish boys and talked to them for awhile and then went back to get some sleep. We arrived at the airport early and did not miss our flight. We arrived safely in Valencia.
Now as I have talked about, this is the week of Las Fallas here. The huge festival were they have floats just all over the streets and at the end they burn them. The city population goes from 800,000 to 3 million. Anyway so last night I went out with Kaitlyn and we watched the fireworks. Today was the last day and they burned them. The streets were so crazy last night and there are so many people. It is not as cool as I thought it would be.
Today I layed out in the sun for about 2 hours because it was 74 and then went and saw Marley and Me in spanish with Kaitlyn and her host mom. It was nice. I have a lot of homework to finish before I have to go back to school on monday. I guess I forgot to mention that my host parents are on vacation right now so my host sister has been cooking for me. I feel bad but oh well. Other than that not much is new. London is the best place I have ever been in my life.
I will write soon. Let me know if you have any questions about my trips.
Love you
So London was amazing. I love it. So beautiful and so many things to see. The accents there are great and everyone is so nice. I can't even explain how much fun I had and how I wished that I was doing the Literature in London Program. I love London and can not wait to go back at some point in my life.
So we left friday afternoon and arrived to London. We got to our hostel where a pipe had been broken in our room so we got switched to another hostel. I was a little pissed because I picked a hostel in the district my sister told me to and then it didn't work anyway. The other hostel was nice and it wasn't in a bad location. It just wasn't where we were expecting to be. We went out to dinner and it was really yummy. The next day I had a panic attack because I lost my passport but turns out it was at the restaurant. Thankgod. So all is well with that.
Saturday we woke up and went around the city, we saw the London Eye, Big Ben, Parliament, Buckingham Palace, Tower of London, Tower Bridge, Kings Cross Station and other random things. We had a really good time and enjoyed seeing the city. I also fulfilled one of my lifelong dreams that day, standing on platform 9 3/4. It was great to finally do it. Sunday we got up and went to tour again. We saw Changing of the Guards at the Palace and went to Hyde Park, Covent Market, Picadilly Circus, and Oxford Street. At Hyde Park, I saw the Peter Pan Statue, which has been another dream of mine. So yay. I travled and did 2 things on my to do list for my life.
Monday morning we got up super early to catch our 6:30 am flight to Dublin. Well our train was late and we ended up missing our flight. We had to pay 71 euros to get on the next one. Luckly we did not miss that one and we arrived in Dublin safely. All went well there. We napped and then walked around the city. There is not that much to do in Dublin and next time I go to Ireland, I want to go to the countryside. Dublin reminded me a lot of the USA but that could be because there were so many Americans there for St Patrick's Day. Anyway, that day we went to the Guiness Storehouse. That was cool and fun. We got to pull our own pint of Guiness for free and drink it for free. Of course I didn't drink the whole think since it was so digusting. Haha. Anywway after that we went back to the hostel for a nap because it was about 8pm. We ended up falling asleep and never getting up because we were so tired. We slept in until 10 am on Tuesday.
We went into town for St Patrick's Day. We watched the parade, which was really cool, and then went to St Patricks Cathedral and Christ Church Cathedral. A lot was closed because of the "holiday". There was so many people there. The streets were just crowded. It was a good time though. We went back to the hostel and got ready to enjoy the night out on St Patrick's Day. I know everyone will be sad when I say this but, I didn't get drunk. We drink just not enough to get drunk. We met some IRish boys and talked to them for awhile and then went back to get some sleep. We arrived at the airport early and did not miss our flight. We arrived safely in Valencia.
Now as I have talked about, this is the week of Las Fallas here. The huge festival were they have floats just all over the streets and at the end they burn them. The city population goes from 800,000 to 3 million. Anyway so last night I went out with Kaitlyn and we watched the fireworks. Today was the last day and they burned them. The streets were so crazy last night and there are so many people. It is not as cool as I thought it would be.
Today I layed out in the sun for about 2 hours because it was 74 and then went and saw Marley and Me in spanish with Kaitlyn and her host mom. It was nice. I have a lot of homework to finish before I have to go back to school on monday. I guess I forgot to mention that my host parents are on vacation right now so my host sister has been cooking for me. I feel bad but oh well. Other than that not much is new. London is the best place I have ever been in my life.
I will write soon. Let me know if you have any questions about my trips.
Love you
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Hola Hola Hola!!!
Hello!
So it's Wednesday. Yay. I leave Friday for London and I am so excited. I can hardly wait. Anyway so school has been going well this week. I had a quiz today in phonetics and I finally did well on it. Yay for me. Maybe I won't fail after all. Then I have a quiz in conversation and that went well too. Friday we have classes but I am missing one because of my flight. But we are allowed to miss two, so it'll be okay. Other than that next week we have no school because of Las Fallas. I will get back on Wednesday and then the night of Thursday is when then burn all the floats. So I will still be around for enough of it. Then the weekend, I will just stay in Valencia and do homework. We have to start reading a book for Literature Analysis and do a paper. I also have to work on papers for my composition class. So hopefully I can get it all done. None of my other class have homework. But for these two classes, I have the same professor. I guess she wants us to have homework.
So in London we have a lot of things planned to see. I hope that we can see them all. And I will make sure that I get a picture of me at Platform 9 3/4 :). Harry Potter dork all the way. Then in Dublin we have things to do and can hopefully go to the countryside. I am really excited that I am doing so much traveling and that I still have more traveling to do. It's wonderful. I am totally going to be broke when I come home, but thats okay.
I am staying at MSU this summer. I will take some classes and live at the house I am living at next fall. It's sad that I am leaving Lapeer but you know, I am already living in Europe, so I suppose it will all be okay. I don't think I have told everyone so, I offically got accepted to the MSU College of Education. YAY. My life plan is working. I am still undecided about a second major in Spanish, anyone have any ideas or thoughts on this matter?
Well in other news, I have been talking to Serge, my Belgium friend a lot. We talk almost everyday. He is coming to visit me in April it appears. Right after my sister is here. So we shall see what happens with that...
Well I will write when I come back from London/Dublin. Be prepared to see many photos.
Love you all
So it's Wednesday. Yay. I leave Friday for London and I am so excited. I can hardly wait. Anyway so school has been going well this week. I had a quiz today in phonetics and I finally did well on it. Yay for me. Maybe I won't fail after all. Then I have a quiz in conversation and that went well too. Friday we have classes but I am missing one because of my flight. But we are allowed to miss two, so it'll be okay. Other than that next week we have no school because of Las Fallas. I will get back on Wednesday and then the night of Thursday is when then burn all the floats. So I will still be around for enough of it. Then the weekend, I will just stay in Valencia and do homework. We have to start reading a book for Literature Analysis and do a paper. I also have to work on papers for my composition class. So hopefully I can get it all done. None of my other class have homework. But for these two classes, I have the same professor. I guess she wants us to have homework.
So in London we have a lot of things planned to see. I hope that we can see them all. And I will make sure that I get a picture of me at Platform 9 3/4 :). Harry Potter dork all the way. Then in Dublin we have things to do and can hopefully go to the countryside. I am really excited that I am doing so much traveling and that I still have more traveling to do. It's wonderful. I am totally going to be broke when I come home, but thats okay.
I am staying at MSU this summer. I will take some classes and live at the house I am living at next fall. It's sad that I am leaving Lapeer but you know, I am already living in Europe, so I suppose it will all be okay. I don't think I have told everyone so, I offically got accepted to the MSU College of Education. YAY. My life plan is working. I am still undecided about a second major in Spanish, anyone have any ideas or thoughts on this matter?
Well in other news, I have been talking to Serge, my Belgium friend a lot. We talk almost everyday. He is coming to visit me in April it appears. Right after my sister is here. So we shall see what happens with that...
Well I will write when I come back from London/Dublin. Be prepared to see many photos.
Love you all
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Viernes y Sabado
Hola a todos!
So my weekend was very busy. Friday we had school...which was a bummber. But classes went well and then we had a movie at night. It was called Dia de Nostalgia. I stayed around the school until the movie. The ten of us that went to Sevilla, went to this bar, Dick Tracy's, and got drinks. I had two and am pretty sure most of us went to the movie partly drunk. We watched De Boda en Boda (Wedding Crashers) in Spainsh with Spanish subtitles and after we had pizza and pop. It was fun and I enjoyed watching an American movie, even though it was in Spanish. It is a lot easier to understand the Spanish when you can read the words as well. It helps a lot. After the movie, I went home to my house and took a shower. I was just going to stay in and was watching LOST online.
Jana called me and said that Adam's friend was here from London and they wanted us to go out with them. So after about 10 minutes of changing our minds three times, we went out. It was fun but it was really late by the time we decided to go out. We didn't leave our houses until midnight. Just late for us Americans, not the Spanish. Anyway so we met up with the boys by our school and went to a bar. Then we went to Botellon, which is this huge Spanish drinking party in the park. That was fun but it was pretty windy so there weren't as many people as usual. I didn't drink because it was too late to buy wine at the store. But I still had a good time. I talked a lot of Spanish to the people we met. We were going to go to a discoteca, Mya, in the part of the city that is called La ciudad de artes y ciencas (City of arts and sciences). Its a gorgeous part of the city and very new designs. But it was already 430 am and the discoteca cost 15 euros so we didn't want to go in since it was so late. We would rather pay that money to go in at an earlier hour. So then Jana and I were just outside talking to the boys we were with and that was fun. Then we just went home.
Saturday I wokeup around 10am, so I didn't get much sleep. My host mom and I looked over a paper I am writing for one of my classes. Then I went to the beach with Kaitlyn and Jana. It was beautiful and we layed out. The sun was so warm. It was about 75 yesterday. The sea was chilly but not colder than the great lakes. My feet didn't go num as soon as I touched the water. It was nice. After the beach, we went to a bull fight. We had bought tickets earlier in the morning. It was a good experience to experience something that is so normal for Spanish culture. I am not exactly sure that I would want to go to another one. I took a lot of pictures and even some videos. They kill the bull in the stadium and then horses come out and carry it out. They always show 3 in one day. We were leaving after the thrid one and came across where they take the bulls after they leave the ring. We saw them cleaning the blood off and then...cutting off the head and legs. We were like terrified and there was some Spanish men behind us, basically laughing at us for being grossed out. Anyway so that was a good experience and interesting to watch. I am glad that I did it because it is part of their culture. My host mom has never gone to one though. She hates them.
After the bull fight, we went back to our houses. I showered because I had sand all over me and then I had dinner. We had pumpkin soup and these other things we eat a lot. The pumpkin soup was so good, I was really surprised. I didn't think I would like it. I spend the night just working on homework and doing my presentation for conversation.
Today, Sunday, I am just doing homework. I finished my presentation and am now doing my phonetics homework because she gave us a lot to do this weekend. I am having issues with my eyes. I am not sure if I have pink eye or if my eye is just irritated. But my host mom gave me some drops so hopefully that helps and clears it up. Friday I leave for London and am super excited!!! :) I have my phonetics and conversation presentation tomorrow, so hopefully those go well.
Well off to do more homework!
So my weekend was very busy. Friday we had school...which was a bummber. But classes went well and then we had a movie at night. It was called Dia de Nostalgia. I stayed around the school until the movie. The ten of us that went to Sevilla, went to this bar, Dick Tracy's, and got drinks. I had two and am pretty sure most of us went to the movie partly drunk. We watched De Boda en Boda (Wedding Crashers) in Spainsh with Spanish subtitles and after we had pizza and pop. It was fun and I enjoyed watching an American movie, even though it was in Spanish. It is a lot easier to understand the Spanish when you can read the words as well. It helps a lot. After the movie, I went home to my house and took a shower. I was just going to stay in and was watching LOST online.
Jana called me and said that Adam's friend was here from London and they wanted us to go out with them. So after about 10 minutes of changing our minds three times, we went out. It was fun but it was really late by the time we decided to go out. We didn't leave our houses until midnight. Just late for us Americans, not the Spanish. Anyway so we met up with the boys by our school and went to a bar. Then we went to Botellon, which is this huge Spanish drinking party in the park. That was fun but it was pretty windy so there weren't as many people as usual. I didn't drink because it was too late to buy wine at the store. But I still had a good time. I talked a lot of Spanish to the people we met. We were going to go to a discoteca, Mya, in the part of the city that is called La ciudad de artes y ciencas (City of arts and sciences). Its a gorgeous part of the city and very new designs. But it was already 430 am and the discoteca cost 15 euros so we didn't want to go in since it was so late. We would rather pay that money to go in at an earlier hour. So then Jana and I were just outside talking to the boys we were with and that was fun. Then we just went home.
Saturday I wokeup around 10am, so I didn't get much sleep. My host mom and I looked over a paper I am writing for one of my classes. Then I went to the beach with Kaitlyn and Jana. It was beautiful and we layed out. The sun was so warm. It was about 75 yesterday. The sea was chilly but not colder than the great lakes. My feet didn't go num as soon as I touched the water. It was nice. After the beach, we went to a bull fight. We had bought tickets earlier in the morning. It was a good experience to experience something that is so normal for Spanish culture. I am not exactly sure that I would want to go to another one. I took a lot of pictures and even some videos. They kill the bull in the stadium and then horses come out and carry it out. They always show 3 in one day. We were leaving after the thrid one and came across where they take the bulls after they leave the ring. We saw them cleaning the blood off and then...cutting off the head and legs. We were like terrified and there was some Spanish men behind us, basically laughing at us for being grossed out. Anyway so that was a good experience and interesting to watch. I am glad that I did it because it is part of their culture. My host mom has never gone to one though. She hates them.
After the bull fight, we went back to our houses. I showered because I had sand all over me and then I had dinner. We had pumpkin soup and these other things we eat a lot. The pumpkin soup was so good, I was really surprised. I didn't think I would like it. I spend the night just working on homework and doing my presentation for conversation.
Today, Sunday, I am just doing homework. I finished my presentation and am now doing my phonetics homework because she gave us a lot to do this weekend. I am having issues with my eyes. I am not sure if I have pink eye or if my eye is just irritated. But my host mom gave me some drops so hopefully that helps and clears it up. Friday I leave for London and am super excited!!! :) I have my phonetics and conversation presentation tomorrow, so hopefully those go well.
Well off to do more homework!
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Nada importante
Well this week sucks. I did horrible on my phonetics midterm and I have had a lot of homework. I am just trying to stay ahead of the game and not get sucked into being sad and wishing I was back taking other classes besides Spanish ones.
Nothing really exciting has happened this week. But I realized I haven't really took any time to write about random things here or my friends here or anything.
So we will start with things I have learned about Spanish and Spain since I have been here:
1. Vale Vale Vale!!! Means okay, its a Spanish expression that no one ever learns in school and when we first got here all of us had no idea what it means but now I use it all the time and can't believe there was a time when I didn't understand what it meant.
2. Si si si si si X100....Si obvisuly means yes. Which I knew. But here, man they use it all the time. On the phone, si si si si, like yes yes yes yes, I understand you. Or yes I want to a lot. It just gets annoying after awhile because there is another word they could use besides si si si all the time.
3. Spain loves the vostros form which ever since the time I have been learning Spanish, my professors have always told me that it was not important and that I shouldn't brother learning it because I would never use it. Well how wrong were they because here I am, in Spain, and don't really know how to use this dumb vosotros form of talking. Dumb teachers.
4. You can wear whatever you want in Spain and no one cares. You won't get funny looks walking to class, when in Spain, anything goes. It is kinda cool. A different since of style and I have deffinatly become more stylish since I have been here.
5. They eat bread like carbs do not matter at all. I love carbs...so I love it here. Bread on the table every night, just to take and eat. I am going to miss that.
6. Paella is the best food on the planet. You can make pallea with anything, chicken, seafood or just veggies. It's a rice dish and my madre makes the best with rice, chicken and green beans. I love it.
7. No one has houses here. Basically everything is apartments unless you live in a pueblo (small town outside the big city).
8. I always knew that they eat dinner later than us in the US but it was really hard for me to adjust at first. Now it is pretty easy and I am scared when I go home, I won't like eating early.
Now onto my friends here,
So I have made friends, while most of them are from the lovely and awesome Green and White...some are from Virginia and other states. It is going to be sad leaving them at the end of this (but I am excited to get back to my friends from home). Anyway Jana and Kaitlyn are from MSU and we all live by each other so we hangout a lot. Sometimes I feel like a thrid wheel though because they are a bit older than me. They are funny and random so they remind me a lot of my friends from home. Then there are 2 Sarah's that I get along with really well that are always from MSU. Both of them are shy but really funny and I love them. Krystin is from UofR and I love her. We are going to London/Dublin together soon. Melissa is from UVA and she is the one I went to Mallorca with. She is smart and nice and shy as well. We get along really well. Anyway then I have Becky and she is from MSU. She is really nice but shy as well. I really like them all and I get along with them all well. I just usually hangout with Jana and Kaitlyn most because we have a lot of classes together and live by each other. I have guy friends too but usually I just talk to David the most. He is also from MSU. He is really funny and we when go out together and are drunk we have the best conversations haha. Anyway...
Well I guess thats it. This weekend I am just staying in Valencia and catching up on my homework...
LOVE YOU
Nothing really exciting has happened this week. But I realized I haven't really took any time to write about random things here or my friends here or anything.
So we will start with things I have learned about Spanish and Spain since I have been here:
1. Vale Vale Vale!!! Means okay, its a Spanish expression that no one ever learns in school and when we first got here all of us had no idea what it means but now I use it all the time and can't believe there was a time when I didn't understand what it meant.
2. Si si si si si X100....Si obvisuly means yes. Which I knew. But here, man they use it all the time. On the phone, si si si si, like yes yes yes yes, I understand you. Or yes I want to a lot. It just gets annoying after awhile because there is another word they could use besides si si si all the time.
3. Spain loves the vostros form which ever since the time I have been learning Spanish, my professors have always told me that it was not important and that I shouldn't brother learning it because I would never use it. Well how wrong were they because here I am, in Spain, and don't really know how to use this dumb vosotros form of talking. Dumb teachers.
4. You can wear whatever you want in Spain and no one cares. You won't get funny looks walking to class, when in Spain, anything goes. It is kinda cool. A different since of style and I have deffinatly become more stylish since I have been here.
5. They eat bread like carbs do not matter at all. I love carbs...so I love it here. Bread on the table every night, just to take and eat. I am going to miss that.
6. Paella is the best food on the planet. You can make pallea with anything, chicken, seafood or just veggies. It's a rice dish and my madre makes the best with rice, chicken and green beans. I love it.
7. No one has houses here. Basically everything is apartments unless you live in a pueblo (small town outside the big city).
8. I always knew that they eat dinner later than us in the US but it was really hard for me to adjust at first. Now it is pretty easy and I am scared when I go home, I won't like eating early.
Now onto my friends here,
So I have made friends, while most of them are from the lovely and awesome Green and White...some are from Virginia and other states. It is going to be sad leaving them at the end of this (but I am excited to get back to my friends from home). Anyway Jana and Kaitlyn are from MSU and we all live by each other so we hangout a lot. Sometimes I feel like a thrid wheel though because they are a bit older than me. They are funny and random so they remind me a lot of my friends from home. Then there are 2 Sarah's that I get along with really well that are always from MSU. Both of them are shy but really funny and I love them. Krystin is from UofR and I love her. We are going to London/Dublin together soon. Melissa is from UVA and she is the one I went to Mallorca with. She is smart and nice and shy as well. We get along really well. Anyway then I have Becky and she is from MSU. She is really nice but shy as well. I really like them all and I get along with them all well. I just usually hangout with Jana and Kaitlyn most because we have a lot of classes together and live by each other. I have guy friends too but usually I just talk to David the most. He is also from MSU. He is really funny and we when go out together and are drunk we have the best conversations haha. Anyway...
Well I guess thats it. This weekend I am just staying in Valencia and catching up on my homework...
LOVE YOU
Monday, March 2, 2009
Madrid
Hola!!!
Sorry I have been so lazy at writing in this lately. There are just a million and one things to do with my life.
So over the weekend I went to Madrid. It was tons of fun. The city is huge and there was always tons of people around. We got there really early on Friday and took a bus tour around. We stopped at the Plaza Mayor, this huge square with tons of shops and businesses. There were so many people there, it was really cool. We also went to the Palacio Real (the Royal Palace), no one lives there anymore. It is huge. We couldn't take pictures but I bought a book on it and some postcards so that I have pictures. After the bus tour we just walked around and went to some open air art musuems. They had statues of cows on display all over the city and they are there until the end of March. They were so cool and I liked taking pictures of them. We went to dinner at the Hardrock Cafe and it was so nice to have ranch dressing again because they don't have that here normally. We went back to our hostel to take a nap so we could go out, we went to bed at 930 and set an alarm for 1030, however, none of us woke up and we ended up sleeping until 930 the next day. It was nice to get that much sleep, we all felt like grandmas for not going out...but it was okay.
Saturday we woke up and went to musuems. We went to the Prado...this huge art musuem and were there for about 3 hours. You could seriously spend a whole day there. We also went to the Natural Science Musuem and did some tourist shopping. The weather was nice and I really enjoyed my time there. Everyone that comes to Spain has to go to Madrid since it is the capital and all.
Other things going on are not much. I have a lot of school work but thats about it. This weekend I am staying in Valencia and I am pretty excited because I feel like I haven't been around a lot lately. I haven't got any of my midterms back yet but hopefully I did well.
Last week I met with my intercambio again. I went to her apartment with her. She is so nice. I met her boyfriend and some of her friends. It was fun and I really like speaking Spanish with him because it is probably what helps the most.
This is my 7th week in Spain and it has gone by so fast. Its weird but in ways I thought my experience was going to be a lot different. My Spanish has not really improved as much as I thought it would, it has improved just not like I thought it would. I like the city and enjoy my life here, but I could never live here. I miss a lot about the US, especially ranch dressing.
My food has been good lately. Nothing interesting. Tonight we had fish and some soup of chicken. It was good. Sunday night we had omletes and they were yummy. I enjoy all my food so thats good.
I am looking forward to go to London and Dublin in the next week or so. It'll be a great experience and hopefully fun. Although it is a lot colder there then it is here. I am not looking forward to that.
Well time to do some tarea!
Love you
Sorry I have been so lazy at writing in this lately. There are just a million and one things to do with my life.
So over the weekend I went to Madrid. It was tons of fun. The city is huge and there was always tons of people around. We got there really early on Friday and took a bus tour around. We stopped at the Plaza Mayor, this huge square with tons of shops and businesses. There were so many people there, it was really cool. We also went to the Palacio Real (the Royal Palace), no one lives there anymore. It is huge. We couldn't take pictures but I bought a book on it and some postcards so that I have pictures. After the bus tour we just walked around and went to some open air art musuems. They had statues of cows on display all over the city and they are there until the end of March. They were so cool and I liked taking pictures of them. We went to dinner at the Hardrock Cafe and it was so nice to have ranch dressing again because they don't have that here normally. We went back to our hostel to take a nap so we could go out, we went to bed at 930 and set an alarm for 1030, however, none of us woke up and we ended up sleeping until 930 the next day. It was nice to get that much sleep, we all felt like grandmas for not going out...but it was okay.
Saturday we woke up and went to musuems. We went to the Prado...this huge art musuem and were there for about 3 hours. You could seriously spend a whole day there. We also went to the Natural Science Musuem and did some tourist shopping. The weather was nice and I really enjoyed my time there. Everyone that comes to Spain has to go to Madrid since it is the capital and all.
Other things going on are not much. I have a lot of school work but thats about it. This weekend I am staying in Valencia and I am pretty excited because I feel like I haven't been around a lot lately. I haven't got any of my midterms back yet but hopefully I did well.
Last week I met with my intercambio again. I went to her apartment with her. She is so nice. I met her boyfriend and some of her friends. It was fun and I really like speaking Spanish with him because it is probably what helps the most.
This is my 7th week in Spain and it has gone by so fast. Its weird but in ways I thought my experience was going to be a lot different. My Spanish has not really improved as much as I thought it would, it has improved just not like I thought it would. I like the city and enjoy my life here, but I could never live here. I miss a lot about the US, especially ranch dressing.
My food has been good lately. Nothing interesting. Tonight we had fish and some soup of chicken. It was good. Sunday night we had omletes and they were yummy. I enjoy all my food so thats good.
I am looking forward to go to London and Dublin in the next week or so. It'll be a great experience and hopefully fun. Although it is a lot colder there then it is here. I am not looking forward to that.
Well time to do some tarea!
Love you
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