El última día de clases

I can't believe that this is real.  Today I ended my classes for the semester.  Now granted, I still have finals to take, but really, this is it.  It's all coming to a close.  Mon/Wed I have four classes in a row from 8:30-2:30.  But today was the last time I had to deal with that madness.  My last classes mostly consisted of reviewing for the final or learning about things like the kind of music they listen to in Islamic countries.  It was very interesting.  I also got to get out of my very last class early.  We walked into class and asked our profe about what would be on the test, she told us and then proceeded to ask us if we would like to stay and talk or if we'd like to go downstairs and enjoy the festivities that the CLM put on for us.  Of course we said we want to leave!!  So we got to leave after about 15 min of class. 

The CLM was having a small fiesta for the closing of the semester.  They were giving out awards for all sorts of stuff, including a photo contest, the photos were pretty cool.  They also had a local street artist/graffiti artist come in a do a graffiti painting for us to see.  He's called El Niño de Las Pinturas (The boy of the pictures) and he has a ton of street art all over Granada.  He's actually really well known in general all over Spain and Europe.  I actually have a picture of this graffiti piece, it was on my way to school during my intensivo course.  All of his art is so good, and it's all over Granada.  Here's some more of his.




We got to watch him do a painting on a canvas that the CLM provided and it took him over an hour to do that I think.  Unfortunately I didn't have my camera on me because I had just been in class, I didn't think to bring it with me.  But he did a really cool pieces of a guys face and it was really awesome.  I left before he was finished so I could eat lunch on time, but it was sick, especially to watch how he created something so beautiful.  That's one thing I really appreciate around here.  There's so much street art, but it's almost all really nice street art, not graffiti with gang symbols and hate signs.

So the rest of the day I just took my time doing stuff, starting study guides, packing up my gifts in my carry on/second checked bag and hanging around the house.

Yesterday I finished up my practicum/internship (finally).  It's been a great experience, but I'm so glad to get out of there.  The influence the culture here has on the school system is just something I cannot deal with very well.  The kids have zero respect for me, well the younger ones at least, so it's extremely taxing just to try to get them to listen to me and actually do what I tell them.  Discipline is the hardest.  But I'll post about my internship later this weekend when I'm trying to study and start procrastinating.

It's been pretty hot here lately too.  So we've been sleeping with our windows open all night, despite the noise all the neighbors might make.  Well, tonight Julia noticed that we've been keeping our window open and offered to "quita la ventana para más aire" (or something along those lines) and we were like sure...not really thinking she actually meant to take away the window.  She just walked over and took the glass part right off the frame, both parts.  So now we have a giant hole in our room to let more air in, which is nice because I actually feel a little bit cooler and feel a breeze.  But it's kind of awkward, especially since they don't have screens...it's just a hole.....  And there's a guy across the street screaming "goooooooooooalll!!!" very loudly about every 5 minutes who we want to punch.  Oh the city life in Granada.

But that's pretty much my update.  Tomorrow I'm meeting with Manolo and Maria again, hopefully not for the last time, but we'll see.  Then Friday we have our tour of the Sacromente and our Goodbye dinner with Sacromonte.  From then on it's finals week...shoot me.  They shouldn't be that bad though, I feel pretty confident, especially since I did well on my midterms...all two of them... :P

Until next time, love you all!! <3