Martes

hi ya'll,

so I tried to put pictures on this blog, but this site doesn't handle pictures well. it froze up my computer totally, so I will try again some other time.

Yesterday and today have been pretty normal. Class, lunch, relax, each dinner/go out, sleep and do it again. But there are a few interesting things I have noticed. I don't know if I have mentioned it on one of these blogs yet or not, but people in Spain really don't use the words please and thank you or excuse me often. The teachers/organizers always have to remind us NOT to be so polite! hahah. Also obviously we know lunch is a big thing here, well the last two days we have been late for lunch (2:30) because our classses have gone a bit long. We called and told our host mom that we would be late, and both times we would get home around 2:45. Yesterday our host mom and brother started without us, and today they had completely finished without us! It was so weird. Its like they couldn't wait those 15 mins for us to get home. We learned that lunch is really important and that people don't start eating until everyone is there, its the big family meal, they do it at the same time all the time....but like couldn't they have waited for us?! haha

I don't really care, we still ate the food, it was just weird.

Yesterday we went on a walk of Sacramonte. This is the part of Granada where the "gypsies" are known to live. Its also the area of los cuevos (caves). Lots of the homes, bars, disco techas, etc are built into the caves. they are soo cute. They have all been painted white and you can;t even tell they are caves from the outside really, but when you go in, it totally is cave like with little rooms and rocky ceilings and small arches. That was pretty cool, and the area also has some great views of the Alhambra. Sacramonte is located right next to the Albayzin and looks pretty much the same, just poorer...so i liked the Albayzin more. There is one disco techa in Sacramonte that I want to go to. It's built into a cave and its called Cambodia. It's supposed to be a really nice one. Someday I will have to go there.

Tonight I am going to watch a movie at the IES center on the roof top. i don't know what movie it is, but it's in spanish, s the title wouldn't help me anyway.

Tomorrow we are taking a language placement test that will put us in a specific grammar class for the semester. I think its a two day test! And then this weekend we go to Sevilla y Ronda for 3 days! That should be a lot of fun. I won't be able to write while I am there of course, but I will let you all know all about it afterwards, then on monday we start classes!

Last night after the walk, we went to a restaurant and had dinner/tapas, then went to a little bar and had a drink, then went to an "irish pub" hannigans and sons and watched some tennis and sang along to lots of american music, and then we went to this club/bar thing. I didn't stay there very long cause by the time we got there it was like 11"30...i stayed till 12:30 and then went home. The bar was WAY tooooo american. it was filled with americanos! like 25IES students, a few students from another program, and all the bar tenders spoke english. I felt weird cause it didn't feel special. I don't think I really want to go there again. But it was still a fun night. Tomrrow we don't have class till 10 so i get to sleep in!! yay

I guess thats all for now. Hasta luego,
Kste