The first day of school

Today was the first day of classes. I had class from 9:00 until 3:45 with no break!!! it felt like I was back in high school. I'm definitely not used to being in school for that long with no break. All my semesters at college I have had a long break between classes for naps and lunch and all the necessary things of course...oh and most important..breaks to do homework that you didn't finish from the night before. Its a beautiful thing. But here...no breaks.

Here are the classes I am taking:

Spanish Language
Architecture and Painting in Seville
Seville: Past and Present
Popular Culture in Andalucia: Bull Fights, Flamenco Dancing, and Holy Week
Dealing with Immigration: A case study

I have the first 4 classes Mondays and Wednesdays and then I only have 1 class - dealing with immigration on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Needless to say I will not be going out on Sunday and Tuesday nights.

I love my spanish professor. He is so great! his name is Jesus Diaz and hes so funny! He really wants us to learn the language and I'm really looking forward to his class and his teaching style. All my other classes should be good...lots of field trips which is always a must but I'm not looking forward to history. I hate US history (sorry Aunt Colleen) let alone the history of Spain. Its very confusing and really boring. UGH! but my only other choice for that time block if I don't want to take history is international business. I don't think I have to say anything else- I'm clearly staying in the history class.

This afternoon Rachel and I walked to El Parque Principes which is about 15-20 minutes from our apartment and met Christy (one of my best friends from Westmont who is also studying in Seville for the semester). It was so great to see her! I haven't seen her since October when I was back in California visiting. It met a few of her friends and then we walked and talked for a while and did some window shopping on some of the high streets in my neighborhood. Come to find out...she only lives about 20-25 minutes from me so I'm happy about that. We're hopefully going to meet for a weekly cafe con leche (coffee with milk) date once a week to keep each other updated on the happenings in Seville.

Mi mama's nephew is visiting from France this weekend so its fun having him around. He's 21 and he speaks Spanish and French and a little english so its fun practicing our Spanish with him and helping him learn english. Every day my Spanish gets better and better. Its so great to see the improvements even with just a few days of being here.

OH!!!! did I tell you that we have a bide in our apartment? i can't remember if I already wrote about that but I still get excited every time I go into the bathroom and see it! I haven't used it yet..and I probably never will but its still so exciting to see it every day. I just think bides are the greatest thing ever. I don't know why but for some reason ever since Andrea and I were in Spanish 1 together in high school with Grace Lytle we have been obsessed with bides.

que mas que mas (what else, what else)

I can't think of anything else thats really important or interesting at the moment so I will leave you with that. I'm going to upload my pictures so stay tuned.

HASTA LUEGO!