Blogs from Salamanca, Castile & León, Spain, Europe - page 9

Hey everyone! It's Sunday morning and I arrived in Salamanca after a veeeeery long journey yesterday that involved waking up at 4:30 AM, not being able to find the bus stop at Madrid-Brajas Aeropuerto and getting lost for an hour trying to find our hostel from the bus station in Salamanca - a 10 minute walk away according to google maps - during which time the wheel on my overweight suitcase decided to stop working and it was like dragging a dead weight around. On the plus side it will go far to toning my arms up! People were very friendly and a couple of times even offered us directions without even being asked. The bus ride from Madrid to Salamanca was fine, the bus seemed really posh with its leather seats and million little knick-knacks ... read more

I have officially been away from home for a months, exacly!! Which means tht this trip is over 1/2 over. Which is terrible. Though I do miss home. I really want to find a dance class because I relieze how much I miss it. I don´t miss discoteca dancing. I mean real dancing. I´m hoping to find a one or maybe more but not once a week class for salsa, and then find a salsa club! I miss being spun.... We got a new roommate today. I can´t remember her name, but she´s from Italy! So I´m pretty sure she will pick Spanish up really fast, if she doesn´t know it already. I haven´t had a chance to talk to her because she got here at 10:30 at night, and I had to pack. I ... read more

Yesterday. It was the last day for- there are two people outside at this moment (the 24th) who are in speedos, and big wigs (on red, one white). Both are middle aged men, and have pot bellies. They are having a pretend fight, just thought I´d let you know-the Americans. Sad day. It was also the last day for two of the millions of French people in my class. Pierre and Marie. Besides that, class was normal. That night, the Americans weren´t allowed to go out, so we all hung out in there room. Until Filo got really mad because they needed to sleep. They didn´t even want to sleep yet though. About 5 minutes after graving my arm and steering me into my room (Even though she didn´t even give me a second to ... read more

The Americans leave in 2 day!! I guess I´ll have to start planning ahead with friends from school. I´m always so terrible at that. I´m going to give a breif overview of my day, because it was pretty basic. 10:30, breakfast. 11:30, left for Colegio to do my APUSH homework on the computers. 1:00 Home to get ready for class. 2:30 Lunch. 3:30 Siesta (naptime). 4:00 Grammer. 6:00 Conversation. We had a sub for conversation (Ana!) who was nice, but talked a lot faster. Cristina talked very loud, slow, and articulated everyone carefully. Ana was more similar to this Anna. Faster, which equals less articulated. She looked younger then Cristina and the other teachers, which means one of two things. Either she will be a stickler for rules because she is new and doesn´t want ... read more

Lunes. School today. Since it´s a new week, new people come. Either they are completely new, or they moved up a level. We had two new kids in our class, and a new teacher for Grammer. The two new kids are Alexis and Roman (both boys from France). Besides the two Singapore girls (that are also American), everybody is now French. The two boys are a little wierd, one is quite. The other, Roman, is trying to subtly be funny, but is getting on even the new teachers nerves. All done so with a smirk on his face. The new teacher, Sonia, is really nice. I like her a lot more then the old one, she just taught and that was it. Sonia teaches, but also makes conversation at the same time. Inbetween activities sometimes ... read more