This morning I opened my blog to write about Tuesday morning and I realized that I wrote in Spanlish- English and Spanish- yesterday. Because it is more than likely to happen again, I'm going to refer you to wordreference.com to help translate any palabras that you don't know. I don't think google translate will help all that much because the sentence will be in both leguas. If you have any questions about what the heck I'm saying, there is a comment section at the bottom that sends me an email so I will be able to reply.
This morning I woke up at 7:15 again. I had a similar routine as yesterday: got ready, ate corn flakes by myself, and dashed off to the plaza to meet the Nebraska group. Once we all got there we walked up to Dio Madre, the other University building. We were there a little before 9 waiting for the list to be posted on the doors of our classes. At 9:10 we called Chris, our leader, to ask if he knew anything about the list, and after a lot of asking around and confused conversations we discovered that the original list was incorrect and that it'd be posted closer to the printer. My maestra, however, had a list of her students so we were able to start class right away. We started with introductions using a star with few words describing us and our likes and dislikes on the star points. I was fun to learn about my classmates and we learned the different levels of "to like" which was really helpful to be able to say "I love it, I like it a lot, I like it, I like it a little, I don't like it, I don't like it at all, and I hate it." "Me encanta, me gusta mucho, me gusta, me gusta poco, no me gusta, no me gusta nada, y oldo." We then talked about some of the grammatical mistakes we made while interviewing our classmates, and then took a bathroom break. I found the bathroom in the building and located the much needed water. After our break we came back to the classroom and broke into groups to have mini conversations about different themes and topics. One of the girls in my group was from Jordanía and said that I have an American accent even when I speak Spanish. I was a little confused at first but then I thought it was hilarious since I'm not used to being someone with an accent. After another short break, we returned to work on pronunciation of the alphabet. It seemed very basic but extremely helpful, especially with the k, c, and qu letters. We got our first tarea (assignment) for tomorrow which will be interesting to see how I much I actually understood today's lesson.
On my way back to mi casa, I ran into my group of people and there were plans made to go to a pool at 4pm since there isn't anything planned through the program. I'm not too keen on wanting to go to the pool since I'm not a huge fan of them in the States and I'd much rather go to a museum or explore the city. When I got back to the casa, it was nearly time for lunch and we had legume vegetable soup, with salad and bread. It was really delicious, but I wasn't a huge fan of the sausage in the soup. After I'm done with this post I'm going to look up the post-siesta opening times for some of the museums in Casco (the old, walled in part of the city) especially those about El Greco and then do my homework followed by a siesta before going to the museums.
Love y'all!
I think I would like to have a siesta break every afternoon. Have you adjusted to the new time zone? What museum did you see?
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I've sort have adjusted to the 7 hour difference but not quite yet because the meal schedule is also different than it is in Nebraska.
DeleteI actually didn't go to a museum today because the group I ran into after getting lost was going to the bridge. I'll explain more in the next blog post :)