Classes

We began classes this week. The grammar class is hard, the first day we bagan talking about something called a perífrasis, I still don´t have a clear idea what it is. It has soemthing to do with combining verbs and gerunds and other things. I was very cinfused when class got out. Now we are talking about the verb to be and how adjectives change meaning. The teacher is great though. She wrote a book of poetry about latin american authors. She said if we do well in the class, she´ll give us a copy.

My other classes are easy. I have a conversation class and a culture class. They are fun and realxing. In between class we all go to the coffee shop. Today I got a Media luna (croissant) bigger than my hand. It was gooood.

EU Elections

All the students on this trip have final papers to write. One of mine is going to be for a current issues class. Next week, the ellctions for the European Union take place, so I am going to write about the elections and two political parties. I am still very confused about it all, but I am reading news articles everyday. I found out that spaniards don´t care much about these elections, I´m hoping to find out why.

Camera cord

I found the USB cord, but now the computers don´t have a USB slot I can plug it into. So pictures will wait some more.

Storks

One of my favorite things about Salamanca are the giant stork nests on the tops of church towers. They come in around Janurary and stay´untill October, then they return to Morroco.

There are a lot of other birds around too, it made me want to sing the "Feed the Birds" song from Mary Poppins, but was scared a stork would come an squish me.

Salamanca

It has been a busy first few days. I have gone on a tour of the main part of town, and have taken my placement test. Monday we will find out what level we are in.
I am staying with a laday named Rosa, along with a girl named Shawnna. She has been very nice and is taking good care of us. She is very protective, she even wakes us up in the morning. She was going to give us a curfew, but then found out that we are "old". All the girls that have stayed with her so far have been 17 or younger. I have to go now, it is 8:23, and dinner is at nine.

Arrived in Spain

I made it! We flew into Madrid on time with no problems. Salamanca is a great city. In a lot of way it reminds me of Córdoba. I can´t post pictures yet because i forgot the usb cord. One of the other girls has one that should work though, so hopefully in a few days I can post pictures.