Classes and Spanish Life

Yesterday, I went to classes at the university as usual. In the afternoon, I watched the newest episode of Grey's Anatomy with my sister Clara. Since Hulu and the other websites that have full episodes of shows in the US do not work here, she downloaded it for us from a Spanish website. Apparently in Spain you can download anything (music, movies, and tv episodes) for free and it is legal. She absolutely loves Grey's Anatomy too so it was fun watching the episode together. It will probably be a weekly tradition. Just after it finished, her friend called and invited us to go to get tapas so we did. I met two of her friends from the university-Alejandro and Sergio. They were pretty nice and both wanted to practice their English with me. After tapas, we went home and had supper. One of the other ISU students, Keely, had her 20th birthday, so we all went out to celebrate with her. We basically took over the back part of El Montallito Restaurant since we were such a big group but it was lots of fun! Got home around 11:30, finished homework, and went to bed.

Today I walked to school for the first time. It is a little over a one hour walk but saves me paying for the bus. I plan to walk to school on Mondays since my class doesn't start til 10am that day. I finally started my 4th class today. It is about the history and art of Spain. Our professor taught us about Merida, which is the capital of the state we are living in. On Friday, we will all be going to Merida for the day. It was a very important city when the Romans were occupying Spain in the 2nd century AD. So far, 3 out of my 4 professors have been easy to understand. The other one tends to leave off the ends of his words and gets excited and speaks too fast...hopefully he'll be easier to understand as the semester goes on. After classes, I walked home, had lunch, watched the newest episode of Glee and worked on homework. Tonight, I hope to put up my pictures from Lisbon and spend time with my sister Maria because she will be leaving to go to her university in Salamanca tomorrow. I feel like we have so much free time while here because we have no clubs or jobs but it is definitely nice to have a break from our fast paced lives in the US.