Alright, whoever said it never rains in Granada LIED!
It definitely rained ALL week last week and this weekend.
It's also been quite chilly in the mornings and evenings, even though I was informed that it was nice and warm here in the fall.
I want to know where these people got their information.
Monday, September 29, 2008
Monday, September 22, 2008
Weekend Update
Another post-weekend update!
This weekend was pretty chill; I got to hang out with Melissa some (finally!), relaxed, started studying for my first exam (in Linguistics that I THOUGHT was on Wednesday but just found out it's not until next Monday, so that's pretty fantastic), and found a church to go to!
I'm so happy about this last one. It's called Iglesia Evangelica (so it's an evangelical church if you didn't get that) and I went with Brad and Kaitlin. Everyone was so friendly and I just felt really welcome and really relaxed right away. I understood almost all of what was going on too, so that was a bonus. We met a whole bunch of people after the service (it was actually harder to understand people at this point because everyone was talking and it was kind of loud), and specifically a girl from California who studied abroad and ended up just staying here in Granada. She told us about how all of the young adults meet up on Saturdays at 8pm and hang out and go out to dinner together, which I definitely want to do. And I asked her about a bible study during the week and she said that she'd find out for me and let me know (because they're going to do one, just not sure when/what yet). Because I really liked it but I'm going to be gone a lot of the weekends (October 10-12, 17-19, 24-26, 31-Nov 2, 7-9, AND 14-16 for certain) but I still want to be involved in the church.
I think I'm going to do this as my "tarea externa" for Culture (we have to enmesh ourselves in a group of Spaniards) and I was going to volunteer somewhere, but this is just so much more what I would like to do if I have to talk to Spanish people. Everyone at the church was just so nice and happy that we were there. So I'm very happy. And I'll be in Granada for the next two Sundays, so hopefully by then, the whole bible study thing will be figured out.
I'm also attempting to finish planning for the week break that we have and hostels are SO EXPENSIVE in Italy. My goodness! I sent the group an e-mail with a whole bunch of hostel possibilities and hopefully they'll actually be diligent in getting back to me so I can book those tomorrow. I think we might end up being cozy and sharing beds and stuff, but we'll see what people think about that.
This weekend was pretty chill; I got to hang out with Melissa some (finally!), relaxed, started studying for my first exam (in Linguistics that I THOUGHT was on Wednesday but just found out it's not until next Monday, so that's pretty fantastic), and found a church to go to!
I'm so happy about this last one. It's called Iglesia Evangelica (so it's an evangelical church if you didn't get that) and I went with Brad and Kaitlin. Everyone was so friendly and I just felt really welcome and really relaxed right away. I understood almost all of what was going on too, so that was a bonus. We met a whole bunch of people after the service (it was actually harder to understand people at this point because everyone was talking and it was kind of loud), and specifically a girl from California who studied abroad and ended up just staying here in Granada. She told us about how all of the young adults meet up on Saturdays at 8pm and hang out and go out to dinner together, which I definitely want to do. And I asked her about a bible study during the week and she said that she'd find out for me and let me know (because they're going to do one, just not sure when/what yet). Because I really liked it but I'm going to be gone a lot of the weekends (October 10-12, 17-19, 24-26, 31-Nov 2, 7-9, AND 14-16 for certain) but I still want to be involved in the church.
I think I'm going to do this as my "tarea externa" for Culture (we have to enmesh ourselves in a group of Spaniards) and I was going to volunteer somewhere, but this is just so much more what I would like to do if I have to talk to Spanish people. Everyone at the church was just so nice and happy that we were there. So I'm very happy. And I'll be in Granada for the next two Sundays, so hopefully by then, the whole bible study thing will be figured out.
I'm also attempting to finish planning for the week break that we have and hostels are SO EXPENSIVE in Italy. My goodness! I sent the group an e-mail with a whole bunch of hostel possibilities and hopefully they'll actually be diligent in getting back to me so I can book those tomorrow. I think we might end up being cozy and sharing beds and stuff, but we'll see what people think about that.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Islam.... NO MORE
So.... I decided to drop Culture of Islam.
For those of you who know me, I'm no quitter, but this class was just plain awful.
I didn't like the professor; he just seemed like he had no patience for us and didn't want to interact with us as much as just teach us. He has this annoying habit of cutting people off while they're in the middle of explaining something so they don't get to explain themselves fully (one of my friends had forgotten his notebook one day so he took notes on a piece of paper, and then the professor called on him to answer a question and my friend was trying to explain that he couldn't find the piece of paper because it was just a sheet and the professor cut him off and lectured him in front of everyone and then when my friend explained himself after class, the professor was like, "oh don't worry about it." NOT okay.) And he has no concept of letting people volunteer; he just calls on people.
The class is basically structured like this: we have to read, take notes on what we read, and then read the notes that we took in class. And then watch a movie that says the exact same stuff the book said.
We get to keep our books, so I'm just going to read that when I've got spare time and get the material withOUT having to sit through that class.
yay.
For those of you who know me, I'm no quitter, but this class was just plain awful.
I didn't like the professor; he just seemed like he had no patience for us and didn't want to interact with us as much as just teach us. He has this annoying habit of cutting people off while they're in the middle of explaining something so they don't get to explain themselves fully (one of my friends had forgotten his notebook one day so he took notes on a piece of paper, and then the professor called on him to answer a question and my friend was trying to explain that he couldn't find the piece of paper because it was just a sheet and the professor cut him off and lectured him in front of everyone and then when my friend explained himself after class, the professor was like, "oh don't worry about it." NOT okay.) And he has no concept of letting people volunteer; he just calls on people.
The class is basically structured like this: we have to read, take notes on what we read, and then read the notes that we took in class. And then watch a movie that says the exact same stuff the book said.
We get to keep our books, so I'm just going to read that when I've got spare time and get the material withOUT having to sit through that class.
yay.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Visit with Megan!!
Hello everyone! I hope that you all had absolutely fantastic weekends and are not drowning in the Midwest (what exactly is going on over there?? All I keep hearing is rain, rain, rain...)
This past weekend, my sister (Megan) came to visit me. She's going to be a teacher's assistant in Madrid this year (October through June), and she just got in on Thursday, so she decided to visit. On Friday, I introduced her to my senora and family and then we just kind of hung out, walked around the Albaicin and Sacromonte a bit. While we were eating dinner, though, these two guys randomly decided to sit down at our table and started talking to us. Neither of us remember the guy who was sitting's name because we were horribly distracted by his crooked and plaque-infested teeth. It waas just really random that they sat down because we didn't do or say anything to make them come over. Megan also found out on Friday that her school is going to help her find housing so she decided to stay an extra night in Granada (which was really nice).
Saturday, Megan and I checked out the Mercado de San Augustin in search of breakfast (like fruit or something). I was thinking it was going to be like a giant supermarket except with only fresh stuff (like the bakery, the meat/fish market, and the fruit/vegetable section). It was basically this warehouse with ALL fresh meat, so we decided against getting anything. We also went to the Alhambra this day, which was a lot of fun and still really pretty. We just got the garden tour (because the regular tour was already sold out), and I was worried it was going to be lame, but it was almost the same (except we couldn't go into the Palacio Nazaries) but it was 13 euro for the regular tour and 7 euro for the garden tour, so I think we got a pretty good deal. AND it took five hours, so I don't think we could have gone for much longer.
On Sunday we went to the Parque de las Ciencias and it was SO COOL. It was this huge campus of a bunch of different interactive science-y stuff and it was spread out over a whole bunch of buildings (some of it was inside, some of it was outside). It was just really, really cool, like there was a special exhibit on venemous creatures and another on the Antarctic, and a butterfly house, and lots of interactive mechanics/physics-type stuff. After lunch, we went to the Parque de Federico Garcia Lorca, and I liked that a lot too. We found this bunch of kittens, so we played with them for a while, and then found this Spanish playground. They had this funky see saw, which was basically an upside-down curve with a seat on each end and the spring in the middle (on the highest part of the curve), so we decided to try it. Let me tell you - it was NOT a safe piece of playground equipment. I felt like I was going to fall off the entire time and I went really high. For dinner, we got doner kebaps, and I LOVED IT! IT was super big, super yummy, and not expensive at all, so I'm definitely going to go back there.
Monday we just kind of hung out. It was really hard to say goodbye though, for both of us I think. For her, she was going back to Madrid, to this place where she didn't know anyone and didn't ahve anywhere to live or anyone to hang out with or anythign to do during the day, which are all really scary adn overwhelming things. For me, it was kind of like I'd finallly come to grips with being in this weird place with all these weird people and then someone familiar shows up and I felt so much more comfortable and when she left, it was like I was coming to Spain all over again and losing that familiar feeling. I was also really upset because I know that she had to go back to Madrid to be by herself and I don't want her to feel lonely. So it was really hard. But hopefully we'll get to see each other between my bus and flight to Rome for Semana Blanca and then definitely November 6-9 (because I want to visit Madrid) and then hopefully right before I leave.
All in all, though, it was a really good weekend and it was really good to see her.
This past weekend, my sister (Megan) came to visit me. She's going to be a teacher's assistant in Madrid this year (October through June), and she just got in on Thursday, so she decided to visit. On Friday, I introduced her to my senora and family and then we just kind of hung out, walked around the Albaicin and Sacromonte a bit. While we were eating dinner, though, these two guys randomly decided to sit down at our table and started talking to us. Neither of us remember the guy who was sitting's name because we were horribly distracted by his crooked and plaque-infested teeth. It waas just really random that they sat down because we didn't do or say anything to make them come over. Megan also found out on Friday that her school is going to help her find housing so she decided to stay an extra night in Granada (which was really nice).
Saturday, Megan and I checked out the Mercado de San Augustin in search of breakfast (like fruit or something). I was thinking it was going to be like a giant supermarket except with only fresh stuff (like the bakery, the meat/fish market, and the fruit/vegetable section). It was basically this warehouse with ALL fresh meat, so we decided against getting anything. We also went to the Alhambra this day, which was a lot of fun and still really pretty. We just got the garden tour (because the regular tour was already sold out), and I was worried it was going to be lame, but it was almost the same (except we couldn't go into the Palacio Nazaries) but it was 13 euro for the regular tour and 7 euro for the garden tour, so I think we got a pretty good deal. AND it took five hours, so I don't think we could have gone for much longer.
On Sunday we went to the Parque de las Ciencias and it was SO COOL. It was this huge campus of a bunch of different interactive science-y stuff and it was spread out over a whole bunch of buildings (some of it was inside, some of it was outside). It was just really, really cool, like there was a special exhibit on venemous creatures and another on the Antarctic, and a butterfly house, and lots of interactive mechanics/physics-type stuff. After lunch, we went to the Parque de Federico Garcia Lorca, and I liked that a lot too. We found this bunch of kittens, so we played with them for a while, and then found this Spanish playground. They had this funky see saw, which was basically an upside-down curve with a seat on each end and the spring in the middle (on the highest part of the curve), so we decided to try it. Let me tell you - it was NOT a safe piece of playground equipment. I felt like I was going to fall off the entire time and I went really high. For dinner, we got doner kebaps, and I LOVED IT! IT was super big, super yummy, and not expensive at all, so I'm definitely going to go back there.
Monday we just kind of hung out. It was really hard to say goodbye though, for both of us I think. For her, she was going back to Madrid, to this place where she didn't know anyone and didn't ahve anywhere to live or anyone to hang out with or anythign to do during the day, which are all really scary adn overwhelming things. For me, it was kind of like I'd finallly come to grips with being in this weird place with all these weird people and then someone familiar shows up and I felt so much more comfortable and when she left, it was like I was coming to Spain all over again and losing that familiar feeling. I was also really upset because I know that she had to go back to Madrid to be by herself and I don't want her to feel lonely. So it was really hard. But hopefully we'll get to see each other between my bus and flight to Rome for Semana Blanca and then definitely November 6-9 (because I want to visit Madrid) and then hopefully right before I leave.
All in all, though, it was a really good weekend and it was really good to see her.
Friday, September 12, 2008
Megan!
Megan's coming today! Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay!
She should be getting to the bus station in Granada around 330 so I'm going to pick her up from there, and then we're going to take the bus to the hostel and check in and then just hang out! I'm not sure entirely what we're going to do, but I know tomorrow we're (hopefully) going to check out the Saint Augustin Market and then (definitely) go on the garden tour of the Alhambra.
Mostly she's just coming for both our sakes: see a familiar face in such an unfamiliar place, you know?
In any case, I'm super excited!
She should be getting to the bus station in Granada around 330 so I'm going to pick her up from there, and then we're going to take the bus to the hostel and check in and then just hang out! I'm not sure entirely what we're going to do, but I know tomorrow we're (hopefully) going to check out the Saint Augustin Market and then (definitely) go on the garden tour of the Alhambra.
Mostly she's just coming for both our sakes: see a familiar face in such an unfamiliar place, you know?
In any case, I'm super excited!
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Planning is so stressful!
I'm currently attempting to plan for my Semana Blanca (going to Rome, Florence, and Venice) with four others, with only one other person actually here, one not sure if he wants to go on all of the trip with us, one on his way back from his house because he FORGOT that we were meeting today, and one who also forgot but told her senora she'd go home for lunch so she's not here either.
SUPER stressful.
I'm currently attempting to plan for my Semana Blanca (going to Rome, Florence, and Venice) with four others, with only one other person actually here, one not sure if he wants to go on all of the trip with us, one on his way back from his house because he FORGOT that we were meeting today, and one who also forgot but told her senora she'd go home for lunch so she's not here either.
SUPER stressful.
Monday, September 8, 2008
Update
Hello everyone!
Sorry for not updating in a while, but things have been kind of busy here lately, so I felt like I needed to gather my thoughts before I told them to you all so that they actually made sense (hopefully a lot of you read this! Don't forget to say hello and let me know how you're doing!)
Last weekend we went on our class trip to the Alhambra and it was one of the coolest things I have ever seen in my life. I have pictures up on Picasa, and I really encouarge everyone to check them out. This place was basically a mini-town for all of the Muslim kings WAY back in the day (we're talking hundreds and hundreds of years ago) and almost all of it is still in really good condition. The designs on the walls and floors and ceilings were just absolutely ridiculous and so intricate and involved; they were really breathtaking. I felt like I was walking around all wide-eyed with my mouth wide open the entire seven hours that we were on the tour. I felt like I learned a lot too, which I was excited about. For example, I learned that the majority of the wall is carved out of stucco, which isn't even that durable of a material, but it's lasted an unbelievably long time in the Alhambra! Everything was just so huge and majestic and unbelievable (that we were actually looking at something this old, that it was made that long ago and still exists today, and that the people back then actually made this). Even though the tour was seven hours long, I feel like I need to go back and experience more of it, because I felt rushed going through parts of it because we only had a certain amount of time (since we were a group) for the tour.
We also started classes this week, and I'm pretty excited about them (geeky, I know, but that's just the kind of person I am). I'm taking Culture of Spain (which should be a good class, but the teacher is always really intense/passionate, so it's kind of hard to read her), Grammar II (because I figured I can always use more help in grammar, and I'm right), Spanish Linguistics (which makes me feel like I'm learning a new language in a foreign language), Art History (which I'm SUPER excited about because I love the professor and every Thursday we go out into the city and find something that we're learning about because Granada's so old, it's experienced pretty much everything), and Culture of Islam (which I'm not sure I want to stay in because I'm not sure how entirely interested I am in the subject material or in the teaching habits of the professor). CEGRI is interesting in that it's a language school and only students within the program are taking classes here, so we're with all American students. But I'm really okay with that because I think I'd be even MORE intimidated if I was in classes with Spanish students.
I also started taking a salsa class, which I absolutely love. Those of you who know me really well are probably really surprised because I cannot loosen up for the life of me, but this class is just so much fun. The instructor is this little Spanish man and he's got a really good sense of humor and is a really god teacher, and the best part is that we can all understand him for the most part! I'm also taking the class with a really good group of people, which makes it all the more fun. Plus, I'm learning to loosen up a little and dance something real, so who can say no to that??
Thursday night we went and saw a flamenco show, which was best described by Rick (one of the guys on the trip) as "tap dancing on steroids." Holy cow, these people moved their feet SO fast and they were just so good! I did feel bad for one of the girls, though, because her shirt came almost entirely unbuttoned so by the end so she had to hold it closed while she finished dancing.
Friday and Saturday we went up into the Sierra Nevada mountains, to the Alpujarras, and hiked for about six hours each day. It was a ton of fun and absolutely gorgeous (these pictures are up on Picasa too!). The air was fresher and I felt completely in my element climbing the mountains and wading in streams and doing a little bit of rock climbing at our resting points. The eonly bad thing was that our guide was like booking it up and down the mountain and since it's her job, it was a lot easier for her to do it than for us to do it, so we sometimes had a hard time keeping up with her. Also, when we were going down, it was super precarious so you pretty much had to keep your eeys down the entire time to make sure you didn't fall and die so we didn't get to see too much of the scenery going down the mountain. It reminded me of something Chris Gottlieb would love to see, so hopefully you're reading this, Chris, and you look at the pictures, and are motivated to visit Spain to climb the Sierra Nevada Mountains! (Everyone else too, but specifically my mountain climber friend).
Lastly, I thought I'd post the places that I'd like to travel and see if anyone has any specific suggestions (definitely go, don't go, see this while you're there, etc):
Sevilla
Valencia
Greece
Cordoba
Italy
Rome
Venice
Florence
Switzerland
Madrid
Barcelona
Portugal
So yeah, just let me know what your thoughts on these places are, okay? Especially you, Melissa. : )
Sorry for not updating in a while, but things have been kind of busy here lately, so I felt like I needed to gather my thoughts before I told them to you all so that they actually made sense (hopefully a lot of you read this! Don't forget to say hello and let me know how you're doing!)
Last weekend we went on our class trip to the Alhambra and it was one of the coolest things I have ever seen in my life. I have pictures up on Picasa, and I really encouarge everyone to check them out. This place was basically a mini-town for all of the Muslim kings WAY back in the day (we're talking hundreds and hundreds of years ago) and almost all of it is still in really good condition. The designs on the walls and floors and ceilings were just absolutely ridiculous and so intricate and involved; they were really breathtaking. I felt like I was walking around all wide-eyed with my mouth wide open the entire seven hours that we were on the tour. I felt like I learned a lot too, which I was excited about. For example, I learned that the majority of the wall is carved out of stucco, which isn't even that durable of a material, but it's lasted an unbelievably long time in the Alhambra! Everything was just so huge and majestic and unbelievable (that we were actually looking at something this old, that it was made that long ago and still exists today, and that the people back then actually made this). Even though the tour was seven hours long, I feel like I need to go back and experience more of it, because I felt rushed going through parts of it because we only had a certain amount of time (since we were a group) for the tour.
We also started classes this week, and I'm pretty excited about them (geeky, I know, but that's just the kind of person I am). I'm taking Culture of Spain (which should be a good class, but the teacher is always really intense/passionate, so it's kind of hard to read her), Grammar II (because I figured I can always use more help in grammar, and I'm right), Spanish Linguistics (which makes me feel like I'm learning a new language in a foreign language), Art History (which I'm SUPER excited about because I love the professor and every Thursday we go out into the city and find something that we're learning about because Granada's so old, it's experienced pretty much everything), and Culture of Islam (which I'm not sure I want to stay in because I'm not sure how entirely interested I am in the subject material or in the teaching habits of the professor). CEGRI is interesting in that it's a language school and only students within the program are taking classes here, so we're with all American students. But I'm really okay with that because I think I'd be even MORE intimidated if I was in classes with Spanish students.
I also started taking a salsa class, which I absolutely love. Those of you who know me really well are probably really surprised because I cannot loosen up for the life of me, but this class is just so much fun. The instructor is this little Spanish man and he's got a really good sense of humor and is a really god teacher, and the best part is that we can all understand him for the most part! I'm also taking the class with a really good group of people, which makes it all the more fun. Plus, I'm learning to loosen up a little and dance something real, so who can say no to that??
Thursday night we went and saw a flamenco show, which was best described by Rick (one of the guys on the trip) as "tap dancing on steroids." Holy cow, these people moved their feet SO fast and they were just so good! I did feel bad for one of the girls, though, because her shirt came almost entirely unbuttoned so by the end so she had to hold it closed while she finished dancing.
Friday and Saturday we went up into the Sierra Nevada mountains, to the Alpujarras, and hiked for about six hours each day. It was a ton of fun and absolutely gorgeous (these pictures are up on Picasa too!). The air was fresher and I felt completely in my element climbing the mountains and wading in streams and doing a little bit of rock climbing at our resting points. The eonly bad thing was that our guide was like booking it up and down the mountain and since it's her job, it was a lot easier for her to do it than for us to do it, so we sometimes had a hard time keeping up with her. Also, when we were going down, it was super precarious so you pretty much had to keep your eeys down the entire time to make sure you didn't fall and die so we didn't get to see too much of the scenery going down the mountain. It reminded me of something Chris Gottlieb would love to see, so hopefully you're reading this, Chris, and you look at the pictures, and are motivated to visit Spain to climb the Sierra Nevada Mountains! (Everyone else too, but specifically my mountain climber friend).
Lastly, I thought I'd post the places that I'd like to travel and see if anyone has any specific suggestions (definitely go, don't go, see this while you're there, etc):
Sevilla
Valencia
Greece
Cordoba
Italy
Rome
Venice
Florence
Switzerland
Madrid
Barcelona
Portugal
So yeah, just let me know what your thoughts on these places are, okay? Especially you, Melissa. : )
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Miscellaneous Update
My feet and legs hurt so much. I tried to be cute yesterday and today and apparently my pinky toes should just get cut off because they're the only part of my feet that got blisters. I got a blister on each of them walking around yesterday in my cute brown flats and then another blister on my left toe walking to class today. Ridiculous. And of course my legs aren't used to walking so much so they hate me right now because I'm not stretching at night. I should probably start doing that again...
In other news, I'm here and finally starting to figure out where I am in the city and where things are (mostly just important things and a couple of plazas) so I'm not whipping out my map to figure things out as much anymore, which is always a bonus so I don't seem like such a tourist.
I started classes yesterday and the ones I had seem like they're going to be pretty good. I have the same teacher from 955-1045 and 1115-1205 Monday through Thursday and she's kind of hard to read because she looks at you really intently and you're never sure if she's just curious or if she's angry (I don't think she's angry, I think she's just intense, but it's hard to tell). Those classes seem like they're going to be good. My first is Culture of Spain and it's only got 14 people in it. We didn't do too much yesterday, just introduced ourselves and she talked about the course a bit, but it's going to be good, I can just tell. Then I have a practical review of grammar II class. There's one at the U of I that I took already (204) and a super advanced one (404) that I didn't want to take so I signed up for 299, which is only at CEGRI and it's like in the middle, but I definitely got signed up for the 404 class (based on my proficiency exam) and it's just going to transfer as 299 (which is what it would have transfered as anyways because only 3 of the advanced hours that I take here will transfer as advanced hours) but I'm kind of like, "wait, I didn't want to take the harder class" but we'll see how it goes. There are only ten people in that class. But my afternoon class was the smallest - 7 people!!! It's my linguistics class and we're the only seven people that signed up for it. Insane! We started learning yesterday and it's going to be quite the interesting class, not really sure why it's required as part of the spanish major, but I guess we'll see. This afternoon I have Art History and Culture of Islam, so we'll see how those go as well.
We went to the Alhambra on Sunday and it was pretty much the coolest place I have ever been. The detail on the walls and in the architecture is completely mind-blowing and it is huge and just absolutely gorgeous. I put pictures up on picasa so you should all check them out (there are a LOT but not nearly as many as I took that day - I deleted the bad ones, but trust me, they're worth looking through).
I only got homework in one of my classes (linguistics) but it's to read pp. 45-121 in the book by tomorrow. Insane! I'm going to be reading allllll night. (After I attempt to salsa - we have free lessons tonight)
In other news, I'm here and finally starting to figure out where I am in the city and where things are (mostly just important things and a couple of plazas) so I'm not whipping out my map to figure things out as much anymore, which is always a bonus so I don't seem like such a tourist.
I started classes yesterday and the ones I had seem like they're going to be pretty good. I have the same teacher from 955-1045 and 1115-1205 Monday through Thursday and she's kind of hard to read because she looks at you really intently and you're never sure if she's just curious or if she's angry (I don't think she's angry, I think she's just intense, but it's hard to tell). Those classes seem like they're going to be good. My first is Culture of Spain and it's only got 14 people in it. We didn't do too much yesterday, just introduced ourselves and she talked about the course a bit, but it's going to be good, I can just tell. Then I have a practical review of grammar II class. There's one at the U of I that I took already (204) and a super advanced one (404) that I didn't want to take so I signed up for 299, which is only at CEGRI and it's like in the middle, but I definitely got signed up for the 404 class (based on my proficiency exam) and it's just going to transfer as 299 (which is what it would have transfered as anyways because only 3 of the advanced hours that I take here will transfer as advanced hours) but I'm kind of like, "wait, I didn't want to take the harder class" but we'll see how it goes. There are only ten people in that class. But my afternoon class was the smallest - 7 people!!! It's my linguistics class and we're the only seven people that signed up for it. Insane! We started learning yesterday and it's going to be quite the interesting class, not really sure why it's required as part of the spanish major, but I guess we'll see. This afternoon I have Art History and Culture of Islam, so we'll see how those go as well.
We went to the Alhambra on Sunday and it was pretty much the coolest place I have ever been. The detail on the walls and in the architecture is completely mind-blowing and it is huge and just absolutely gorgeous. I put pictures up on picasa so you should all check them out (there are a LOT but not nearly as many as I took that day - I deleted the bad ones, but trust me, they're worth looking through).
I only got homework in one of my classes (linguistics) but it's to read pp. 45-121 in the book by tomorrow. Insane! I'm going to be reading allllll night. (After I attempt to salsa - we have free lessons tonight)
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