My Spanish has improved tremendously the last couple weeks! I've started to receive compliments on my progress and last night someone asked me if I was French!!!! I'm glad to be getting this feedback! I'm learning a lot in my classes, but I think what's really boosted my learning is the fact that I've been spending more time with a couple Spanish people who don't speak English. The past couple weeks I spent a good amount of time with Andrea and his new girlfriend Adela and his good friend Marc. Andrea speaks English, but Adela and Marc don't so its been really fun learning to communicate with them. They're really fun and interesting people too!!! Yay for new friends!
School is winding down already! This week I have a few projects and presentations due so I'll be working on that pretty hard... ideally speaking. We only have two days of school this coming week and then another week of class and then finals! The people from other programs who are only here for the semester are getting ready to go home already! Thank God I'm staying here for a year! A semester is waaaaay too short to learn Spanish very well. I've JUST started making Spanish friends. Imagine if I had to leave in two weeks!
My year here is on the brink of starting a new phase: Winter break, David coming, travelling to England, France, and Germany, Sadie coming, starting new classes, and making more Spanish friends are all about to change the world I've created for myself over here. I'm looking forward to and welcoming whatever is about to happen.
If I haven't had the chance to tell you yet, Thanksgiving was really fun. It was a bit hard to be away from the family, but my program put on a dinner for us and effectively got us hammered with wine. It seriously never stopped getting poured. I couldn't finish my glass! I left the dinner and called my family and later went to a bar, at where luckily for me, my best friends showed up. All the wine I drank hit me while I was there, but with a little help I got home safe and sound :)
I'm not singing at the Irish pub anymore. It got a little too stressful for me and stress is not something I'm seeking out. I'm looking for other places to sing just for a good time so I'll keep you posted on that.
Ok, well, no new pictures, no recent trips, just soaking in the Granada cold and enjoying every minute of life. On to homework and the rest of the weekend! Ciao!