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.