A Little Taste of Home

This week has been, yet again, a short week.  After having my alarm not go off on Monday morning, I started my week on Tuesday.  So just like all of you reading this.. I celebrated President's Day too, and Spain doesn't even know what that is!!!!  I did a whole lot of nothing on Monday, I feel like after the weekends I need a day to relax.. I think my teachers would understand this!  Monday evening, some of my friends and I wandered around and looked at shops.. our favorite past time!!  As we were walking around we saw this very interesting store.. we didn't go in, but it was definitely a little reminder of home..

On Tuesday, I went to class (yay!).  I had so much homework to do for Wednesday, I thought I would never get it all done.  Since our teachers are trying to pack as much in before our exams on March 2, they're trying to give a lot of homework so we have more grades in the gradebook; otherwise, we have like 3 papers we've written and that's it!  Amanda, Brittney and I met up at a little cafetería (coffee shop.. not like a school cafeteria!! hahah).  We drank coffee, ate tapas and used their internet.  As you can probably imagine, this was not the best scene to do homework, but it was FUN!!


A few weeks ago, one of my friends, Crystal, Facebooked me and told me that her aunt and uncle live in Granada.  Crystal gave me their Facebook sites, a few days later, I received a message from her aunt asking if I wanted to come over for lunch one day.  I was thrilled to be able to finally eat with English speakers!  We agreed that Wednesday (yesterday) would be a good day to meet up, so after classes, I walked down to our meeting point and walked home with Deborah.  Her family and I had a great lunch.  We talked about all the differences in Spain compared to the USA.  I had a great time over at their house, for a second i felt like I was back at home.  It was a great little get away from the Spanish world.


Today when I was walking home, I saw this little frutería on the side of the road.  I stopped by and bought some strawberries (fresas).  They are by far the BEST strawberries I've ever had.. they are so sweet and delicious.. and so cheap!!! I wish I could bring some home for everyone to taste.  They're fantastic. And Encarna said she would cut some up and put them in my yogúr for dinner!!! Woo Hoo!!! I have a meeting at the ISA office to talk about our homestays and how everything is going with classes and such.


I've learned that if I take bus 23 it takes me right to the front door of the building that all my classes are in.  So the bus driver has gotten to know who I am.. he talks to me everyday and on days that I miss class (like Monday) he becomes very concerned with why I'm not going to school.  I think the bus driver is more concerned with why I'm not in school than Encarna is! haha how funny.


Well I'm off to my meeting, hope everyone's having a great week!! Just think.. I took off President's day and Friday this week.. I'm going to Barcelona this weekend and we don't have class on Monday because it's El Dia de Andalusia (which I'm not sure what exactly that entails, but I'm not complaining because it means a day off school!)!!  I could for sure get used to this schedule!