Hi everyone!
Sorry I haven´t written in awhile. My computer charger is broken, so it makes is a bit harder to post stuff on the internet. I have had quite an interesting last few days, many changes to things. I started my actual classes, and I LOVE THEM. Being in all Spanish classes that interest me makes learning the language so easy, because I am constantly hearing it and speaking it without really thinking about anything but what the teacher is talking about. I am certainly most estatic for my gastronomia class. We are going to create our own recipes, cook for each other, cook for our familes, learn about Mediterranean specific food (which I know nothing about because my family americano doesn´t eat seafood), go out for churros, go to the mercado together, learn about wine and how it is made in this region, and lots of other things! Even in Indy, I am constantly cooking and experimenting and have this interest in healthy food, so this is such a great fit for me, and it´s all in Spanish!
The other class I am taking is a literature class. I chose this one because it´s actually smart for me to take it because it transfers back as one of the requirements I need for a Spanish major, opposed to just an elective. Although it´s just a requirement, I think it will be neat because there are only four people in it and the teacher told us we can decide as a group what we would like to read, depending on the kind of literature we like. So the first half of the course we will kind of go through everything briefly, and then the second half we will read things that we like. Oh and I have a ten page paper (in Spanish of course!) due at the end.... but I think I am ready for the challenge.
This past weekend was great. My friend Kim and I took a day trip to a city called Murcia, southwest of Alicante. It´s actually bigger than Alicante, and is known for it´s many monuments. We spent the day walking around, shopping (window shopping para mi), and finally, eating at PIZZA HUT! American food! I laughed at people who had already broken down and ate McDonalds or Burger King, but now I am one of them. After a certain point you just miss the greasy, disgustingly unhealthy food that is served in America! Here are some pics from the trip....
I started my baile (dancing) classes! Every Monday and Wednesday I go to the academia de baile de Alicante and learn to salsa and merenga (sp?). I am utterly awful at it, but hopefully in a few weeks I will be alright. It´s just hard to move my hips as much as these Spaniards! I would put up pictures of my dancing, but that would be embarrassing!
One more thing, I know I have already told a few of you this story, probably the funniest thing that has happened here so far... Mi madre served me brussel sprouts, and I tried a bite and just couldn´t eat them (especially drenched in olive oil) so I apologized and she began to make me something else. Then she asked me something along the lines of "well is there something you miss from home that i could make you?" I began to tell her about how at home my mom will cook calzones for me and some friends. We will literally have get togethers where people come over to have calzones that my Mom cooks. Little did I know, that "calzones" in Spain means "skanky underwear" so I went on to explain how we have "fiestas de calzones" all the time. Mi madre kept asking, "wait, so your Mom comes to these parties" and I replied, " Oh yes, my brothers and Dad usually have calzones with us too!" She apparantly was thinking that all the time I have parties with my parents, family and friends where we all just sit around in skanky underwear. She was shocked and kept giving me really strange looks, but then I looked up calzones in the dictionary and explained what happened, and we laughed for awhile about it.
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