My first full day of classes.

Today, I had class from 8:30-1:00pm. So, it was a pretty full day. Today has been the most tiring of all. Perhaps it's because I had to get up so early or maybe it's because of all the Spanish I was immersed in. Probably both.

My first class was 20th Century Spanish Literature. The professor was very interesting. He's originally from Navarra but he's taught literature in several other countries over the years. He taught in California for ten years, India, Japan, France, and a few other places that I don't remember. He had this interesting anecdote about how he was supposed to fly to California on September 11th, 2001. Well of course that didn't work out. So he left a week later. I'm going to like having his class, I think. His main focus is on improving our level of Spanish, not killing us with analyzing of literature (hallelujah!)

The others classes I had today were Conversation, Writing, and Español (grammar and whatnot). I don't think they'll be too hard. I still have yet to attend my Translation (from Spanish to English) and Civilization and Culture. A lot of the lesser credit classes look interesting, but I don't want to take too many classes.

Carmen and I went shopping again. I needed to buy an agenda and some notebooks for class. We went after the siesta time. I took my first siesta nap and it was glorious. Anyway, we went to a store that sold school supplies, magazines, books, and movies. It was so interesting to look at the books and movies and recognize so many. It's so strange to see how much the United States has influenced the other countries. It was funny to see how they changed some names of movies and some they didn't. The Other Boylen Girl  was Las Hermanas Boylen means The Boylen Sisters, which I found kind of funny. Just stuff like that.

I think I'm doing better at communicating with her. My Spanish is still very broken, but I can get my point across. Often, when we're shopping, I will have told her before what I'm looking for and then she'll go and ask the sales people where things are. I bought two bottles of conditioner yesterday by accident because they were right beside each other and I just automatically thought they were shampoo and conditioner. Whoops. Now I have a back-up. Anyway, so we went looking for shampoo. We were able to compare different types of shampoo, such as types for dry hair, for maintaining color, blah blah blah. I was able to tell her that my natural hair color is brown and that I redyed it brown, but it's faded to red.

Tonight, most people go out for Juevinchos (or Jueve pinchos, which are pinchos on Thursday), but since Carmen makes all my meals for me I'm not going. I'm thinking about going out later and just sit with some people I know that are going. Alternatively, relaxing in my room sounds great because I haven't done too much. After all, tomorrow is my birthday so I'll probably do stuff tomorrow. Dilemmas, dilemmas. But, I digress.

I apologize if my grammar and spelling is terrible. Usually I'm really good at that, but I'm finding it terribly difficult to spell things and even remember certain English words.