It's Friday

Well.  I made it.  To the end of the week that is.  Just 11 more to go.

I got up and went about what I guess is becoming my normal routine.  Which is kind of depressing because I really hate not being able to do my hair and take the time to care about what I'm wearing.  But it is what it is.  The other girls were leaving more Madrid this morning so I actually ate breakfast with people for a change.  Breakfast was the same as always.  Toast and milk of questionable origin.

Grammar class was a review of por and para.  I felt like I understood it pretty well...then I had to do the homework assignment and still had questions on a couple.  I guess it's just one of those things that I might never get right 100% of the time.  Then in communication class we actually had a lot of fun with this activity.  I'm not sure exactly what the point of it was - practice using preterite and imperfect in writing maybe - but it was entertaining so I don't really care.  We had to right a news article, just a brief little announcement really, and it was about a murder.  So we came up with a list of the facts you needed to know to write the article, the who, what, where, when, and why.  But to do that we wrote down for example who the killer was and then folded over what we wrote and passed the paper to the person on our left.  And then we wrote who died and folded over what we wrote and passed it to the left.  And so on down the list of facts.  Then we got in groups of three and looked at the three different news stories we had to work with.  Ours was really amusing because a girl in the class killing shakira with the cap from a bottle of beer in the cathedral because she was hungry.

Then it was break and I ate my peanut butter sandwich and was still hungry.  I talked with one of the guys from BC and one of the girls from Ohio that's in my classes.  I like the Ohio people so it will be sad not having them around anymore.  But we did at least add each other on facebook so we're hoping we can still get together sometimes throughout the semester.  We did our presentations in our afternoon class and I think it went pretty well.  I made a couple grammatical mistakes that she pointed out and corrected afterwards, but they're things that I know in writing it's just hard to remember when speaking.  I think I also got marked down a bit in my fluidity I guess you would call it but that's something I would definitely expect.  After we did our presentations we talked about the stages of life in spanish and how people are classified based on age and what age group we thought was the best and what not.  Then we talked about childhood and our elementary school days and learned some vocab that went along with talking about that.

Emily wanted to stay and use the internet at the school after class so we sat in the patio area for awhile.  Then we tried to get some answers to some questions we had.  We were able to figure out what excursions we get for free which is two of the one day trips.   Or she said we could get one two day trip like the trip to Granada.  Which I really want to go on.  I kind of want to go to Córdoba next weekend too.  So we'll have to see.  We have a lot of planning to do.  We also tried to get some questions about getting a cell phone here and making calls to the u.s. answered but the two different people we talked to told us very different things.  So there's still a little confusion there.  Right now skype works fine for me and I don't really need a phone but it would be nice to have to communicate with people here in the city and also to take on trips where I'm probably not going to bring my computer.

So after all of that.  We went to Emily's house to put her computer back and switch bags.  We met her host as we were leaving and she had her baby granddaughter who was extremely adorable with her.  Then we decided to walk over to the basilica of the macarena which is not a church dedicated to the song or dance macarena.  I don't know what it means or what is the significance of this title for mary and I'm too lazy and tired to look it up right now.  My house was on the way so I dropped off my stuff and looked up directions to the church and R brought in a new heater that actually works which is exciting.  I mean really all it does it keep me from shivering when I'm wearing my extra pair of socks and sweatshirt.

We found the church fine but I can't say I really liked being in that part of the city.  It seemed a little sketchier than where I am at and where the school is and such.  But it was really pretty and I'm glad I got to see it.  One of the processions for semana santa starts there and it was crazy seeing the hugh figures of Jesus and Mary inside that get carried around for the procession.  Then we walked back and parted ways.  I spent some time in my room.  Then I was called down for dinner.  I basically just ate by myself. There was some kind of meat and this pizza that I think had some kind of ham on it.  But I finally was forced to have yogurt for dessert.  I don't like yogurt.  But that was the part of the meal that R decided to come in and talk to me about my life so I had to sit there and eat a good amount of it.  Disgusting.

And now it is really time for me to be going to bed.  I'm looking forward to sleeping in and hopefully seeing some monuments or museums or something tomorrow.