Well on Monday I went to classes. It was a little rough getting up at 7:30 again considering we were still sleep deprived from the Granada trip, but it wasn't too bad. classes were ok, and afterwards we stayed at the center for a little while to get some work done. Amanda and I had a paper due Monday night by midnight. Just lovely. So we came back for la comida and after that, headed over to the Cortes Ingles, which is like a huge combined Target/Macys type of store. It was a good 25 min walk or so over there. We meet up with our friend, Kyle, and shopped a little bit. Then headed across the street to the nearby mall called Aqua. I love this store there called Zara, and apparently there are over 300 of them in Spain, ha. But anyways, I bought a dress there that I really liked and then we walked around looking in other stores. Amanda sadly lost her bag in the mall and we looked for it for awhile, but she couldn't find it, so she had to buy another battery for her camera before coming back to the apartment. We came back, finished up our papers and then had dinner with the family. After dinner we went back to the movie theater at the mall with Gina and Kyle and saw "Noche y Dia", the movie with Cameron Diaz and Tom Cruise. It was really good. I was amazed at how much I understood just from the facial expressions and gestures. I understood a lot of the Spanish too I think. It was a pretty ridiculous movie, but it was a fun experience. Oh and apparently the popcorn there is multicolored?! Crazy! I had to get a pic with it. I think I'm going to tell my managers at Regal that they should give multi-colored popcorn a go...Spain knows whats up, haha.
On the way back to our apartment, Gina, Amanda and I stopped at la Ciudad de Artes y Ciencias - it's a huge museum type place with a lot of little fountains and things. And I guess there is a dinosaur exhibit thing going on, so we took some pics with the dinosaur, ha. Oh what we do in Valencia for fun.
On Tuesday after classes I went to the beach with Amanda and two other girls from our class, Taylor and Caroline. It was super hot, but we put our towels right on the beach next to the water so it wasn't so bad. Man, I love the beach. We brought our bocadillos with us; however, they were SO AWFUL. Like seriously, I wish I had taken a picture of them. I told know why MariCarmen would think it was a good idea to combine bread, tomato, and very fishy fish, in a sandwich that would be eaten on the beach when it's really hot outside. NOT a good combo, ha. I feel like we're all elementary school kids or something too, we all bring our bocadillos to classes and compare them, "how's yours today? oh man, mine's gross...i want yours!" haha
After the beach we walked around the little shops along the boardwalk area. We bought more abanicos - Spanish fans and I got some new sunglasses for 3 euro since I lost my other ones. Then we took the bus to La Casa de America's Cup, which apparently is all about sailing and Spain winning a sailing competition. It was an interesting building, ha. I don't even know, it was Amanda's idea.
So then we took the bus home. Then Amanda left soon after that to go see Grease the musical in Spanish. I opted not to pay 30 euros to see it and just hung out and did some homework. We have SOOO much work this week, it's not even funny, bleh. So I had dinner with Gabriel and MariCarmen, just the three of us. Haha, it was interesting. I got to talk a little more since it was just me and them, but things are still a little awkward, I don't know. I like them both a lot though. It was sad that all of the food was fried, as usual. Seriously, fried burger, french fries, onion rings, and a fried shrimp type thing, oh and melon. Another interesting combination. Ok so today I had classes again, ugh, as usual. We've started doing debates in my conversations class. Yesterday we talked about the environment and today we talked about weapons and the right to bear arms, that sort of thing. It's a very intimidating atmosphere though, she wants us to use our debating terminology and say things like "dejame hablar!" which means - leave me to talk!" haha, the direct translation doesn't capture it's meaning very well. But I don't know, I don't like participating in debates. Oh well. During the 5 min break in the middle of my second class Amanda and I headed to la Mercadona next door and bought peaches for like .4 euro, haha. We ate them in the middle of class and when class ended at 12:35 we went back for more snacks because we didn't have any to bring with us today. Sad.
Tomorrow I have my presentation on the royal family of Spain so I've been working on that a lot tonight. But earlier today was fun. We came back for lunch in the apartment with the family. We took some pics of us with MariCarmen and Gabriel and their daughter and son-in-law, Pepe. And then we headed over to el Oceanografico, which is like the Marine Science Museum, only WAY cooler. We saw a dolphin show and went around looking at all the different exhibits. I was super excited about seeing the penguins, but it was a definite letdown because the glass of that exhibit was really dirty and they were all sleeping, and I didn't get a picture with them. But it was really fun! Most of it was outside, like the dolphin show, and walking from building to building to see the different exhibits, so it was really really hot.
Then we walked back around 6:30 and have been doing homework ever since. I have my presentation tomorrow, two longgg stories to read, and a 4 page paper due tomorrow night at midnight...AND we have 6 hours of class tomorrow instead of 4. Geeeeez-oh-peak. I'm soooo excited and ready for the weekend to get here so I can stop doing homework and experience life in BARCELONA!!!
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