Today was the first day of classes....and I totally slept in. No one's surprised though, right? Didn't miss class though, thank you Jorge! I woke up with about 15 minutes to spare, so I grabbed a few of the graham cracker-like cookies and had some orange juice (which, much to my immense surprise, didn't taste horrible. It was like drinking an orange) and then ran out the door to meet Sarah. We got lost on the way because we didn't remember the school being as far up as it was and we'd only been there once before, but we were only a few minutes late and class hadn't started yet. Gramática is first, and today we took the prueba to see which level we would be best suited to, as well as a quick interview. I didn't think it was too bad, but I've forgotten so much about when to use subjunctive, etc! Hopefully I'll get the advanced class, but I don't think it impacts my credit transfer so I'm not particularly worried.
After Gramática, I had about an hour and a half before my next class, so I went questing. I needed a notebook because I didn't know they wouldn't let me use my computer in class and I even managed to find it! Not only that, but I managed to communicate my request to the shopkeeper and bought 3 notebooks (one for each class). I was super proud of myself. Then I decided to stop and get a few postcards to mail out and spent the rest of my time writing them at a cafe and drinking coca-cola. I'll have to mail them tomorrow though, because I didn't have time to search and find the post office.
My second class was la Union Europea con Marian. We very briefly touched on the UE and went through the syllabus, but mostly spent the period getting to know each other. We each drew some things that we like and some we don't, and then swapped drawings. Then we had to go around and figure out whose drawings we had by asking what people did or didn't like. Then, we introduced our artist to the class by their drawing. She also explained a few ways that Spain is different from the rest of Europe, such as how they do their last names and which finger you wear a ring on to indicate that you're married. That last part was confusing, because it's your right ring finger but when one of my classmates said she should switch it because she wasn't married, Marian said she was okay and sort of explained it only not really and it was kinda confusing...I think you have a ring on both hands though, essentially. Also, although there are 27 countries in the UE right now, only 17 use the Euro.
After class I returned home for lunch and a nice siesta. After siesta, a bunch of the girls went out for chocolate and churros, then walked around for a bit. It was so much fun. The churros were decent, and the chocolate very rich. While we were there, it started raining giant rain drops...but as soon as we all got up to move inside, it stopped! It felt nice though, and I love rain :D Our walking around didn't end up going very far, because we kept stopping to take pictures. It was really fun though, and I was sorry to leave for class. Hopefully we'll be doing that sort of thing a lot these next few weeks though! I know we all want to at least go to Barcelona on the 8th of July, as well as the Harry Potter premier.
Finally, my last class was art history. Today was basically a brief overview of what history and art history are, and what art is. I learned that at least from an art history perspective, there is only one difference between artists and artisans: whether or not they sign their work. So, all art created before the 15th century was created by artisans, not artists. It was pretty interesting. We're going to be studying five artists this summer: El Greco, Velasquez, Goya, Dalí, and Picasso.
Will be trying to go to bed earlier tonight, so that I hopefully wake up closer to on time!
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