9-1-10

Hola de España, half way through the second week of school and stuff is speeding up. My classes are becoming something that takes up A LOT of time. I’m only taking two classes right now, but we have homework in both of them everyday. We have stuff we are supposed to be doing daily, weekly, and bi-weekly. So as you can image that stuff starts to take up a lot of time. Once my internship starts, I’ll have even more going on with it. I will not only be working, but I will also have reports on current events, reports on the job, formal journals, and informal journals to add to the list. Nonetheless, I’m very excited for the internship stuff to get going. Most people have already started theirs this week. The director of the school and I have been working to find a place where I can get involved into some tennis somehow. Part of the problem has been that a lot of businesses didn’t reopen until today from the Summer vacation period. So tonight at around 5pm, we are going to call a place again about the internship. We are in a rush to get it started because I don’t want to be behind in mine and also the director leaves for Texas for 10 days tomorrow. Tomorrow I have two tests, one of them being strictly oral. It should be “interesting.” Tonight I will be doing some pretty serious studying; I really like to try and do well on the first test to give myself a little room to breathe.



On Friday we will be going to Rabida and Lagos, Portugal. Rabida is the location where Columbus set sail for the Americas. They are going to have replicas of the ships that he sailed on for us to walk on, and I’m very excited about it. Hopefully, I can get up on time for this one; we have to leave early again though…. After Rabida, we are going to be taking the bus to Lagos, Portugal. It is supposed to be a beautiful place known for its beaches. We will only be there for about two hours. Almost everyone in my school will be staying there until Sunday and coming back Sunday evening. I, however, decided against it. I’m hoping to try and meet some Spanish people that I can make friends. I would love to go to the beach, but I can go to the beach with a bunch of people from Texas in Texas….. Just my thoughts, plus I’d rather save my money for a trip to maybe Italy! I do plan to go to the beach sometime this September before it gets cooler; I just have to find a time to go.


If I can get the internship stuff started soon that would be great because I think I’ll be spending a good bit of time there. I would really really like to make some Spanish friends that like tennis. It’s always good to have something that you enjoy in common with friends….. ok well I guess that’s the basis of friendship but anyway you know what I mean.


My friend Elliott, whom I played tennis with at Meridian CC, is back in Spain from his tour of North Spain. He has since rented a city bike like me, and we have been able to get around to almost anywhere we want with pretty much ease. We found a place last night where we can watch the US Open. We will probably be staying at the sports bar quite a bit for the next two weeks 


Last night we went out with our tutors, it is something that we will be doing for the next 6 Tuesdays. My tutor this week was a very friendly girl named Susana. She was talking slower and clearer for me, but I was still happy because I could understand pretty much everything she was saying. She also said that my Spanish was good. I still don’t feel as if my Spanish is back to where it was when I left Mexico two years ago, but it is getting back there for sure. I’m thinking that by the end of this week I’ll be back to that level. I hope then I can start moving forward. I’m very excited that I’m going to be here so long so that I can really, hopefully, get good at Spanish.


Anyway that’s all for now, and it’s about lunch!


I haven’t decided yet, but I think I might start writing some of my blog after the English part in Spanish just for the practice so if you speak Spanish don’t make fun of me too much haha