new friends, new adventures

Left side: Nikki, Angela, Nereyda (Nery), Me
Right side: Nic, Ariel, Alim, Zee

Hello, everyone! I know it's been a little while since I blogged, but I've been busy (and a little lazy). I know my last post was a little depressing (again), but don't worry, I'm fine. Just treat those posts as mood swings lol. Truth is, I do miss home and my family, but I love it here and I have a group of awesome friends.

There are 28 UC students in our program (25 of whom are girls), and we all kind of split off into groups after the first week. At first it was just Angela, Nikki, and me, and then we decided that we needed guys, so we stole the only 3 guys in the program. With only girls it can get too sorority. Most of the time we have our little group of 8 people, and sometimes Will joins in - a guy in another Carlos III program we met randomly in a bar. They're all really fun, really nice, and like to joke around. I have a lot of fun with them, and we're getting to know each other very well little by little. I have at least one of them in every one of my classes, so we can get lunch, and we go out together on weekends.

One of our conversations in an Army Museum we went to:

"This sword looks like the one from the Lord of the Rings."

"Like Aragorn's sword?"

"Omg I love the LOTR! You do too?"

"Yeah! Oh my gosh."

"I have the soundtrack on my iPod too..."

"Me too!!!"

"I know, me too! I listen to it when I walk around campus."

"Yeah, it makes everything so epic."

That's why we're friends. 

At O'Donnell's Irish Pub
Zee, Angela, Alim, Me, Nikki, Ariel

We've done so many things together - gone to discotecas, hung out in bars and had tapas, and eaten in random cheap places we find. It's fun.

To my parents: Don't worry, it's not all fun, I do attend school too :) I finally got my final schedule of classes that I'm going to take:

Literatura del siglo de oro

Cuento (short stories)

Literatura hispanoamericana

Lengua avanzada (language/grammar class)

Cine (film)

I'm excited! This week is our first actual real week of classes where we're all enrolled. Last week we just attended to try them out to see if we want to take them. So far my favorite class is Literatura del siglo de oro. Apparently it's one of the hardest classes because of the amount of reading, but the time passes by so fast. It's all about literature and history, and the teacher is amazing. He's really easy to understand and is passionate about what he's talking about. Plus he walks around a lot, sits in random places, uses hand motions, and makes weird noises lol. It's entertaining.

La biblioteca

My least favorite so far would have to be Cine. It's SO BORING. It's 3 1/2 hours long, and there's so much content. Even Angela and Ariel (who are film majors) said that she was going super fast. She seems nice enough. I mean, last class, I was really tired and had allergies or something and literally had to blow my nose every 5-10 minutes and was sneezing constantly. It was miserable. Hopefully the coming weeks get better. Well that's it for now, in the next post I'll tell you all about my trip to Toledo :) Hasta luego! 

Ready for school :)

The courtyard

Cafeteria building

Me and Nery