I turned in my first actual homework today-10 sentences in Spanish about my first impression of Spain. I said that lots of people here smoke, they are always just a little bit late to meeting times, people talk their time walking on the sidewalks, and that it was a lot warmer here than in Iowa. I had two new classes today. One is about properly pronouncing words in Spanish and the other is called Spain Today. In that class, we learned lots of statistics about the average age of marriage, how many kids the average family has, the percent of the population over age 65, etc. Spain is pretty close to the US with most of the statistics. The one thing that surprised me is that almost no one is illiterate here. That is such a problem in the US, and I wonder how they have eliminated that here. I still have yet to begin one class...who knows when that will be! After school, I went and bought the two books I need for my classes...36 euro for both. That's about $55 and we are trying to share them between 3 people to spend the least money...we'll see how that works!
This afternoon, we planned our first weekend trip! We are going to Lisboa, Portugal (Lisbon in English). We will take a train there and will leave Friday morning at 1am. It is about a 7 hour ride. We will return Monday morning at 5am and will go to our classes at 10am :) We are staying in a hotel together...and you know what that means? SHOWERS!!! We have been taking such short showers here to conserve water and when we go to the hotels, we don't have to worry about it! I'm sooooo excited to finally feel warm and clean! I am traveling with Courtney, Lizzy, Bev, and Casey. It should be lots of fun!!
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