Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Pictures of Spain



Here are a few pictures of the city, as well as our apartment and my room. We are going to Cordoba, and Granada this weekend. Right now were in the process of planing our trips for the semester. It looks like we will be going to Paris, Italy (Rome, Pisa, ect) Portugal, and on several other trips throughout Spain. There are 8 students from Calvin here and we have become good friends and most of us are going to travel together along with Dallas and Sean, the other two guys on the semester.

This picture is the of the river that runs through the city. I live on the North Side and the School is on the south Side, so we cross it every day. The second picture is the view from the balcony of our apartment. We have one of the best locations as it is only about a 10 minuet walk to school and most everyone has to pass our apartment on the way to anywhere. So, it's a convenient meeting location!

We went bowling last night for "guys night". The school paid, which was nice. There are only 5 guys so it was a small group. Afterwords we had Tapas for dinner, and a sandwich. (Tapas are kind of like appetizers - meat, cheese, bread and fish are the most common kinds) It was a lot of fun!

Class are challenging and frustrating. I have no clue what is going on for the most part, so I hope that it gets better/easier for me to understand.

Friday, January 23, 2009

Holla!

We made it safe and sound to Sevilla after a long day of travel Tuesday/Wednesday. I have two roommates (Ben and Sheril). Both are really nice and Sheril speaks Spanish very well so he's a big help. Our Senora is Margarita - she is an older Widow lady. She has a lot of charisma and she is a lot of fun. She loves to make fun of me because I have no idea what is going on a lot of the time!

We registered for classes today, and they begin on Monday. I'm excited to start just so I can hopefully beging to understand a little of what is going on. Right now I am completely lost. We ate dinner and explored the city last night. Nothing happens till around 1am here. Sleep is not importantant to the Spanish.

I'm running out of computer battery and don't have my plug with me. I will take some pictures of the appartment I'm staying at as well as my roomates and Margarita.

Adios!