little update

¡Hola todo el mundo! (Literally: “hello all of the world”…they say the whole world here sometimes which is kind of comical to me). It’s been a while since my last blog, I guess that’s because there isn’t really too much new going on here. I’ve been kind of in a fixed schedule of class, studying and hanging out with my family. I’ve been going out on the weekends a little bit to get a feel for the night life here and the local culture…it has been a lot of fun but also very draining because they are known for staying out really late (like 6AM) and I am definitely not used to that. I am starting to figure out some more of my plans for traveling coming up and I think my fist big weekend trip is going to be to Leon Spain with my sister’s boyfriend Emilio. The snowboarding trip kind of fell through for me to go because they are thinking about going during the week now, so that leaves me with the trip to Leon as my first real travel experience.

Classes have been going alright, I have one called “translation” which I don’t care for too much I think it’s partly because it’s really hard and I feel like I don’t know what’s going on during the class. My favorite class is the one that I added last minute called practices and theory of theatre or something like that…we only meet once a week for three hours and all were doing is learning about and preparing our own performance which we will present to the public at the end of the semester. This is going to be the class which I practice speaking the most by far and I think it should be a lot of fun. I am also starting these things called “intercambios” which is just a chance for us to practice speaking Spanish for an hour to a local and learn about their culture. How these work is we meet a Spanish person from the Alcala area and we talk to them about whatever we want. Generally they are students who are studying English so we get to practice our Spanish on them and they get to practice their English on us. My first one is this Thursday with a girl who is studying at the university here in Alcala hopefully it will be a good time.

All in all things are going pretty well here, nothing too exciting yet. I feel sort of like my Spanish is at a stand still as far as improving which is kind of frustrating but I think I’m just going to have to start putting in more effort to get some more results. That’s all from me for now. Hope all is well for everyone back in the states or wherever you are while reading this and I’ll post again if anything new happens. Hasta Luego!