Wait, I'm supposed to be learning here, say what? Yup, that's right, this whole study abroad thing isn't all about travels, going out and seeing weird people on the streets, I'm actually doing some learning here too. But I haven't talked a lot about it because, in all honesty, it's quite boring for you guys. I really like pretty much all of my classes. All my professors are pretty good, except for one who bores the heck out of me that I want to shoot myself some days, but hey you can't win with them all right? Well here's a quick overview of my schedule:
M/W: I have four straight classes. I start at 8:30, which means my alarm goes off at around 7:30 so I can eat breakfast, and get ready to leave for 8. I go to my grammar class first, which is basically just a class for us to go over everything grammar. We did Ser/Estar last week, now we've moved onto reviewing the Pasados (past tenses), which I'm actually beginning to get very good at, yay me, I just need to get my agreement right all the time. Then I go to History of Spain. I really like that course, the teacher is really nice and it's so interesting learning the history of this country. It's so different from ours and seeing how Spain is influenced by the Romans and Arabs is really cool. Then I go to Islamic Culture in Spain. This class is only offered through AIFS here in Granada because of the strong Arabic roots they have in Andalusia. It's really interesting seeing how this portion of Spain was influenced by the Arabs. Also, this whole country is about the size of Texas...that's nuts. I guess my friends teacher was talking to them about how far away they go to school from home and they told her it takes about 3-4 hours (they live in the mid-west), the teacher was astonished and thought that was so far because that's essentially here to Madrid. So I just thought that's funny because it's fairly normal to drive long distances in the US. After that class I have my POE class, which is a writing and oral expression class. That's the one that bores me to death!! For my intensive course I had such an energetic teacher that it was fun, but this teacher is so boooooring. She's so calm and hardly gets us talking, it's just a snore. But it's improving a bit, we'll see.
T/TH: I have one class at 1 that's my education course for the internship I'm doing. I really like the class, it's interesting to learn about the education system here in Spain because it is very different. It's similair in some ways, but very different in others. So I'll actually only be having a few more classes of this, and then the rest of the semester on T/Th's I'll be in a school. I haven't found out which school yet, so we'll see, but it should be interesting.
Then I go home for lunch every day after classes, which every day I end at 2:30 and just hang around for the rest of the day. They don't really do the whole homework thing here, it's more like you take initiative to study on your own. They also don't do the whole buy books thing. Most of my "books" are worksheet packets they've made for us, which is so exciting. So I just come back, eat, relax, and go out for coffee or icecream with my friends. Like yesterday I went to Cafe Futbol with my friend to do some work and studying and eat some food outside. It was a gorgeous day and I was so excited to be able to get outside.
But yup, that's pretty much my life here.
Love you all!
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