Catch up

Not too much has happened since last time... Pretty much the same routine the past 2 weeks. Wake up late rush to shower and get ready. Run to the Metro stop down the street. Take the Metro for 45 min to school. (If I'm lucky, on the Metro there will be a... I know this isn't the right word for what I want but all I can think of is: troubadour... I know there's a more slang and accurate term for a person playing an instrument and wanting donations...) Then class for 3 hours and learning the same grammar lessons that I've had for the past 6 years over the pretérito indefinido and the imperfecto (two past tenses in spanish... we only have the indefinido en english just fyi) and I'm still learning new things! Then I come home and have dinner with my host mom and host brother around 9, 9:30 and then facebook and not blogging! haha

I signed up for my classes this week. That was a stressful event I spent 3.5 hours trying to work out a schedule in the Spanish way, aka only having half the information you need but spread out over 5 different books with each contradicting the other! But luckily I figured it all out and have Dialectology, Islam in Spain, and Ethnology of the Americas on Mondays and Tuesdays 8:30-14:30 with 1.5 hour break for lunch in there (Well technically Lunch would be after my classes are over but I don't think I can last that long). Then on Thursday and Friday I have The Origin of Humanity and The Problematic History of the Americas from 11:30 to 14:30. Hopefully the semester wont be too bad.

Here are some new things I learned about the world outside of the US:

We are the only people that learn that North America and South America are two different Continents. Everywhere else in the World it is just America. The WHOLE Weastern Hemisphere is one continent. So the class, La Geografía de America, is not the geography of the USA, but both our South America and North America! Sounds a lot harder now... But Europe and Asia are still two different continents... And then there is also Oceania which is Australia, New Zealand, and all that jazz over there in the Pacific Ocean.

HAM IS EVERYWHERE IN SPAIN! and basically its own food group here! One of the girls is a vegetarian and her family served her ham and she said "Oh! I'm sorry, I don't eat meat." Her host mom looked at her and said, "It's not meat. It's Ham!" haha

Tapas Bars are where its at! Buy a drink for 2 Euro and get a plate full of food for free! But beware! if you order the food on its own or request a certain tapas, you have to pay. Just take what they give you!

3am is still early for a Friday night. Go out on the last train at 1:30. Get to the bar at like 2 then that closes at 4 then to the dance club until its time for breakfast at like 6 or 7. Then bed til 6pm! Repeat on Saturday!