First Full Day!

!Buenas! Estoy en mi cuarto en el apartamento de mi familia Salmantina. (For those of you that don't know Spanish: I'm in my room at my Salamancan family's apartment.) I have internet at home from Spain's time 3 to 10 pm! I'm happy I chose to live with a family, even though I think I'm the only one that's NOT living on campus. My host mom is nice and very helpful, but it's hard to judge things here because not many people smile; they seem very serious. It's hard to get used to :(. I think she's divorced because she doesn't have a husband and I met her oldest of two sons. They also have two dogs...I'll have to post a pic.

Today was the first day of classes and it was exhausting I have to say! I only slept 4 hours because I was going through all of the materials and lost track of time. I have class during the week from 8:30 until 2:00 everyday and then a lunch break until 4:40, which begins my afternoon 2 hour class. The afternoon class is pop culture and film, but today watching a movie in a dark theatre so late in the day was really bad for me...I was trying so hard to not fall asleep and I succeeded but I didn't concentrate on the movie very well! I guess the trickiest thing for me right now is learning how to get around in the city. I've gotten lost a few times walking to and from the apartment, but I found my way because the people are VERY willing to help. I'm talking to a lot more natives of Spain than I had the opportunity to do with the natives of Costa Rica. I feel like I've been here longer than I have!

Oh and something very coincidental happened! On Sunday when I got here around 6:00 pm I unpacked my bags and then needed to head to the University for an orientation at 7:00. I ended up arriving about a half an hour late because Vicen's (my host mom) car needed to be jumped by her not-so-willing son! She needed to drive me because she really didn't know exactly where the building was and it would be faster. Anyway...I missed the majority of the meeting, but at the end when I was getting all of my materials a girl came up to me and introduced herself. I told her where I was from and then she looked shocked. It's turns out she (this is crazy!) is one of two teachers from Arrowhead High School that are in the program and she also graduated from Arrowhead in 1999. If you didn't know, I also graduated from Arrowhead. I've also met a lot of people from New Jersey, where I was born. There's I think 38 teachers in the program and I've already met 3 from the Milwaukee area! It's great how things work out :)

Anyway, I had lots to say today--we'll see what tomorrow brings.

Hasta luego.