Monday July 13th: Today was spent in class like any other except that I found out I have a test on Friday. Also, we gained two students from Italy. One of them speaks 4 languages already and reads Spanish so quickly that I can’t keep up. I’m slightly intimidated . When I found out about the test I was disappointed that it wouldn’t be next week but now I’m glad because it means that I won’t have two the Friday after. My professor is giving us all the same verbal and oral quiz and determining our grade based on that. I’m not quite sure how that is going to work but I’ll let him worry about that. We also found out our grades for the cultural test that we took on the bus on the way to Madrid. I missed one. The thing that gets me is there are people in the class who failed it. Partly on purpose I’m sure since they don’t need the cultural class to graduate, but at the same time why wouldn’t you want at least some of the information about where you are? Oh well. Class went well, we started comparisons and Indirect and Direct Object Pronouns. I’m not a fan. I have had the material I think this will be the third time and it is finally starting to make sense. After class I came back to the apartment and did a lot of homework. But before I did my homework I went to Plaza Mayor with Nate, Mike, and John, and had some churros con chocolate (Spanish snack that I’ve never had in the US though we do make them). Those cups are full of chocolate not coffee.
After we finished our churros we headed to Corte Ingles, which is the giant department store similar to Macy’s. Mike was looking for as he put it “man soap” instead of everything that he could find that was packaged for women and in the makeup section. After looking through all seven floors he finally found some in the first spot we looked. We also spent some time in sporting goods trying to find a decent Frisbee, since no one brought one. We were unsuccessful on the Frisbee front. Mike did find the inflatable mattresses though and I forgot how to keep my finger out of pictures...
And Nate found the escalator and was excited it…
And for good measure this is John being pensive...
We all took the subway home and I had dinner then finished my homework. I slept well that night.
I lived right above a chocolateria and had churros con chocolate often. The chocolate is a little too rich for (plus as you could guess I preffered to order coffee.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy man!