SCHOOL IN SPAIN:
My two direct enrollment classes are Radio Laboratory and Audiovisual Narration. Each class has both a lecture with about 75 kids and a practical class where we split up into smaller groups of about 20. Spaniards apparently don't find much use out of the lectures because I would say about 50 % or less of the kids show up and when they skip class no one seems to think its a big deal. I am pretty sure the only people that actually care about school are the americans who come here to study. Even the Erasmus students (study abroad program for Europeans) don't seem to care- we met some girls the other weekend from France and Italy that just skipped the whole past week of classes.. and yea no problem hahahaha. NO PASA NADAAA here is Spain hahaha. My radio class is my favorite!!! We are in small groups for the entire semester and with them we do all our recordings and projects. I am with Victor from the Canary Islands, Alessandro from Peru, 2 silly Spanish girls named Maria and Sarah, another quiet Spanish kid I am not sure his name, and a few other girls that show up every now and then. I love them allll!!!! They all just think its kind of funny that I don't speak perfect spanish and really just do all the work for me because honestly there is no use for me trying to get in there. On Wednesday we recorded a radio show type thing of what it would sound like if you were "hiding from your grandmother".. yea i don't know hahaha. We are in this big sound booth with microphones and all the buttons and the "on the air" light and computers and gadgets and a big sound board and its soooooo cooooooooool. The funny thing is that I am learning vocabulary that I don't even know in English about different parts of the machine. Luckily I didn't have to say anything on the recording (or grabación if you will), but we might have to do it again next week and I will have a script to act out in spanish hahahaha, so random. Right after Radio Lab we go to the lecture for Audiovisual Narration. Since everyone is all in the same classes I just hang out with those same kids all day. There is also a boy named Pablo who is in that class as well who is in our group. During lecture I sat with Sarah and Maria and we ended up talking the entire time in the back row and giggling and trying to figure out what in the world the lecture was about this time. My professor speaks really intensely and I am never sure exactly what he is going on about. And you know he speaks in spanish so that doesn't help the situation either. After lecture we go to the laboratory in Audiovisual Narration where we break up into groups again and do random things. This week class was cancelled though so I went and got lunch with Maria and Sarah!!!!!!! GOAL COMPLETE- eat with spaniards not americanssssssssssssssss :) SUCCESSSSSS!!! We exchanged numbers and hopefully I will hang out with them sometime!! This weekend the two of them and their other two friends are going to Paris for the weekend.... rough life these Europeans have.
Coloquial and regular spanish classes are great as always- learning how to speak correctly for once in my life...
interesting thing i have noticed about spanish- it seems to have much less words than english. like instead of labeling a new thing instantly they will just kind of describe it.. i will think of an example for the next blog haha
okay weekend is hereee!! tomorrow I am meeting Borja for coffee and saturday I am taking a cooking class to learn how to make Tapas!!! WAHOOOOOO
planning for spring break is also continuing! we are thinking about going to Lisbon, Lagos, and Madeira Island. Google those place- they all look like heavenn!!!!
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