I Ate Snails

Wednesday April 23, 2008

Today we got out first results back from one of our classes, tomorrow we will get the rest of our final tests back. I’m really happy with the grades that I have gotten so far, but even more so, I’m really happy with how much I have learned about the language, history, culture and myself.

It was our last class yesterday with one of our teachers named Victor, who always wears black. Therefore, we declared it “make-like-Victor-and-wear-black-day.” The whole class dressed in black and his reaction was priceless. She walks in says “Hola,” then stops, looks up, scans that room…and shakes his head and starts to laugh. It was great. Literally he wears all black, or at least really dark colors, every day to class. We had to do it, and after class we went down to the plaza and took a picture of all of us in black. We looked somewhat like an awkward clan, but it was pretty funny.

After lunch Allison and I went to exchange/get new tickets for the bullfight this Sunday. We were unsuccessful because the ticket counter wasn’t open and we couldn’t wait around for long because we had plans at 6:30pm. We left the ticket counter and left for the north part of Sevilla where we were to meet a few of our intercambio friends…and we were going to try on a flamenco dress! The ladies came and we got all dolled up…make-up, jewelry, flamenco dress and all. It was a blast and I think that they had just as much fun dressing us up as we had being dressed up. I felt like a Spanish dress-me-up Barbie. It was a GREAT time. Later the professor, José Antonio, came and we took a bunch of pictures. He gave me a really cool Flamenco c.d., which I love. We left a little later for a bar close to the school and we had some snacks and a few drinks. Oh, and for the record…I tried snails! It was creepy because the little bugger had antennas and it was looking back at me. I met a few more fire fighters, a bullfighter; it was a good night in general. It’s going to really suck leaving all of these people! They really have made the trip unique and a little something different. I love them all. But, it’s just another thing that I have to leave behind.