Before the weekend update.

Okay,
I really don't have much to say. BUT my mom keeps emailing me about posting in my blog. So i'll do what I can. Lets seeeee..

This week has just been relaxed. I have stayed in the majority of the nights just trying to catch up on sleep etc. but then my friend megan told me that if you don't go out between the hours of 10-1, your host families will think you have no friends. Hmm isn't that funny. American parents tell you to stay in on school nights, Spanish parents get worried you're socially inept. So I went out last night. The problem in going out in Spain is there's no such thing as "oh Ill make it an early night" because really you don't make it to the tapas bar until 1045 and then you don't get your food and drinks till 1230 so you don't make it to the bar (just to have a drink with friends bc you need to be social) until 2. Overall I didn't go to bed till 4. I had to get up at 730. it was terrible. BUT my senora was very excited to ask me how my night went last night. So mission accomplished there.

Hmm what else... Oh i know. I'd very much like to emphasize the amount of food I'm eating. Yesterday, i had a bowl of pasta big enough for 2. 2 pork chops with tomatoes. and an Orange. And that was LUNCH. Im too scared to tell her to make me smaller portions. I think her goal is to make me gain wait. Everyone else's host moms are doing the same to them. I really have no idea how people are so small in europe. It does not make sense. Something else is going on here i think.

My first week of my intensive spanish course is over. I have an exam tomorrow. I hope I do well because the paper I had to write in spanish made me feel like a third grader who forgot her alphabet. I swear I wrote the sentence...The building is very big...at one point.

My weekend plans are as follows:
Tomorrow night my group and I are going to a student language exchange party. ha We were partner up with a student from the university with students trying to learn english. They will talk to us in english, and we will talk to them in Spanish. Then correct each other. After that party all of us are going to a huge white party. There should be 1000 people there all dressed in white. We are excited. Then we will all wake up an hour after we go to bed (probably) and day trip it to Cordoba. Sunday may be a beach day, but Im thinking itll probably be a sleep day instead! Hope everyone has a great weekend.

ps. My computer will not upload my photos. It doesn't make sense. So hang in there.