Friday, November 12th

Katy and I in the bus

Friday was a rough day of classes. We had 4 and a half hours of grammar to make up for the holiday we took Tuesday. During the middle class we were working on desires for the future, the past, and impossible. For some reason I just can’t differentiate between past desires and impossible desires. To me everything that you wished for in the past and didn’t receive is now impossible. All I know is during the break our professor told us we all needed to take a trip down the bar and drink a beer before the next class. We didn’t, but it sure was tempting! ;)

Our sweet hotel room

The second class though went a lot better. We did another activity with a theme we’ve been working on all week, indirect style (re-telling what someone else told you), and we all did really well on it. Maybe I won’t give up on Spanish after all!

After class I ran home to eat lunch and grab my luggage before heading to Granada for the weekend. I had some extra time so I was able to Skype with my parents too. It’d been like 2 weeks since I’d had a free moment to talk to them so it was really nice to get to chat. I was late to the bus stop though. Like it almost left without me... TOLD YOU HAD TO GET OFFLINE DAD!! My professor was like freaking out.. Whoops….

the street our hotel was on

Anyways Katy and I went to Granada this weekend with one of professors, Ana. She teaches us literature and right now grammar too (our grammar teachers change every couple weeks so that we get to learn different accents and different teaching styles). We’d already paid for this trip through our tuition, so it was nice not to really have to worry about money all weekend.

The bus ride to Granada was 5 hours! I took advantage of the time in the bus to work on some serious homework. I got a really good chunk of two of my four projects for my art teacher done. Makes me feel a little better about life, but I’m trying not think about how much more I have to do!

When we got to Granada we took a taxi to our hotel. Our hotel was AMAZING! It was in this old neighborhood in a remodeled Carmen style house. It was so beautiful – nothing like the nasty hostels we’ve become used to staying in!

Katy and I with our professor

After cleaning up a little, we went out for tapas at a local bar, next to our hotel. The food was so good. We ate some soup, chorizo, cheese, ham, and drank a couple glasses of wine. It was so much fun relaxing with our teacher. We were taking turns picking out boys in the bar and rating them on appearance 0-10! Haha!

   

When we got back to the hotel, it was 1 am so Katy jumped through a quick shower and we both passed out. Even though the pillow was a piece of pooh, I slept really well because my sister, Teresa, let me borrow one of her puppy stuffed animals named Pablo. Haha! J