School is NOT Fun Here

Thursday January 17, 2008

 Today is finally Thursday, which is the equivalent to a Friday in the States…thank God! I feel like this week has been the longest week every. It’s a lot to take in all at once. New house, new language, new food, new schedule, new everything, so to say the least it has been really interesting. We had our first class for “Service Learning” in which we learned that we would be doing a ten-page paper (in Spanish) and a 15-minute presentation in Spanish as well. Everyone in our class got silent and there were lots of tear shed that day. It’s all a lot to take in. A ten-page paper in the States is not fun, let alone in Spanish. This semester is going to be really hard for classes and for the record I’m not too happy about it. I would rather be out and about around Spain than any of the classroom stuff. We are in a one-room schoolhouse for the entire school day with the same people. I crave variety at this point. Today has been the hardest day yet. The week was stressful and then class happened today and everyone’s hopes just crashed.  I kind of had a panic attack today, but then you have to put everything into perspective and it gets better. The days are like rollercoaster’s here, some good, some bad. Needless to say everyone needed to relax a little and hang out that night. We met up with our group at about 11pm and we walked around Seville for a while and then stopped at a café by La Giralda. The waiter was nice, but I accidentally called him a busy girl when trying to make small talk, opps, my bad. I think he had it out for me after that. He insisted on making fun of me every chance that he could get, but I guess it was deserved. After that we walked forever it seemed and when to this club that everyone was dressed up in and it was very high class looking. Apparently some of the girls were meeting guys there and failed to tell the rest of us, so about nine of us broke off, myself included, and we went to another small café that was more low key so we could all talk. It was good to just relax and hang out with a smaller group of classmates. Earlier in the night we had run into about 40 students from Wisconsin and saw a couple of them walking down the street and stopped to talk. There are 80 of them renting out 6 classrooms in the same building that we are in for school. Sometimes it’s a comfort to run into other people that speak English, but 80 is America overload. We got home around 2am after Nick walked us home (to keep the creepers away), thank goodness, and had girl talk before bed. Tomorrow we have to be up and at La Plaza Nueva at 11am for a day to relax. Tracy saw that we were all going a little crazy and stressed so tomorrow will be a day to relax and think and its well deserved.