lunes, 15 julio

Today in class we talked about children's stories/fairytales. Katrina and I wrote an amazing and hilarious story about Juan running through Amsterdam and tripping through a magical window, being in a coma, and then the princess, Elena, kissed him and he woke up. They obviously lived happily ever after. It's really hard to write stories in Spanish because you are limited by the amount of vocabulary and grammar you know, but it is definitely a lesson in talking in circles to get your idea across. During our break we headed over to get empanadas which were delicious, and a good snack to hold me over to lunch. After the break we reviewed the different accent/tilde categories. I remembered the lesson from Yoanna's class last semester so it was mostly a review for me, but it's nice to hear more explanations of grammar forms and rules. We then started a lesson on direct and indirect object pronouns, which are annoying to listen and discern, but wonderful when writing.

For lunch today we had paella and salad. I'm kind of getting sick of paella because we had it Saturday for dinner in Valencia, Sunday for lunch in Candeleda, and today for lunch. But since it is a traditional spanish meal, I guess it is to be expected. I enjoyed a little siesta that wasn't long enough to help me catch up on my sleep deficit from this weekend.

(We lost internet again last night so this is from memory more or less)
At 5 I went to Madre de Dios to study with some friends. We made a couple trips to a mercado to get snack food and listened to different types of music. I did get my homework done, but I wasn't extremely productive as time wore on. At about 830 we decided to go get tapas at Lizzaran and realized we'd been locked into M de D. We had to call Chris and then a security guard to let us out of the building. It was a little embarrassing, but still fun. When we got to Lizzaran I got a couple of very good tapas and spilt a fries, egg and ham plate with Mariah, and drink a sangria. The evening was fun even though we were locked into the building for a while; and I was able to fall asleep before midnight which was wonderful.

Love you all!