Welp, things are still going wonderfulllllllllllly here! Classes are great and I love my professors so far they are hilarious. I can tell my Spanish has improved SO much already and it has only been one week since I left the United States, crazy!
We have gone on two tours aroung the city and today we went up into the Sierra Nevada Mountains.. needless to say it was breath taking and I loved every second of it :) ...I'm a bad listener when I'm taking a million pictures so I won't have a lot of captions sorry! But they are beautiful photos.
Greeeeeen! yes it is actually nice here :)
A distant view of the Alhambra.
We saw a lot of different sites like this one on our way up the Sierra Nevadas.
Austin, me, and Zach sitting overlooking the city of Granada.
They played really well acutally!
This is one of our profs at the Univeristy showing us the public baths from years ago.. how crazy to think about nowadays showering in public with many many people; they saw it as a social gathering especially for women.
Sorry for the bad explainations of pictures, woops!
We also went out a couple nights ago to watch the BIG game of soccer between Madrid and Barcelona. It was a blast! Everyone gets really into it here and it was a great social event :) One of my friends inthe program has two host sisters one from Spain and one from Holland and they were with us too. Fanny (Spain) and Niki (Holland) they are both incredibly nice and it was fun to chat with them!
Holly, Fanny, Elizabeth, Niki, Kelsey, me, Malissa, Brielle (shes wants to be a PA too!)
Today we started something called intercambio which is where we have a Spanish "mentor" with 3 other students at about the same speaking level. We go places with them, do activities, and well.. speak Spanish! Tonight was our first time meeting one another and I got reaaally lucky somehow and got in an advanced group of speakers including Gen, Rob, Griffin, me and then Helena who is the mentor. She is awesome, and sooo helpful. She doesn't speak English along with everyone else we encounter, but it really makes me think about how and what I wanna say. I'm learning so much! ...but it's fun too! haha Our group went to a tapa bar and we all got 2 free drinks and 4 free tapas from the program... this is A LOT different then in the United States bc we would neverrr have an event school related buy us drinks, ha! riiight. Veronica is the coolest. yupp!
My group! Rob, Griffin, me, Helena, Gen.
Anyway.. other than that I've just had classes and Malissa and I have been going on runs to burn off all the bread they push down our throats. Today was beautiful and sunny warm :)
Hope all is well at home!!
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