French fries for dinner?!

Well, today I started clases! Well, one of the five I will be taking when I'm here.  It wasn't really class either, more a of orientation, but at the end we had a bit of a grammar lesson as well.  We did get to choose our classes though, and if all goes well, I will be taking Civilization and Culture of Spain, History of Spanish Music, and Flamenco and Traditional Musics, along with my grammar class and literature class.  I may end up changing the civilization one, IF Profe can convince COLSA (College of...Sciences... at UNH) that one of the classes offered here should be considered a science gen ed.  I hope so.  It would help me quite a bit, as in I could finish both my majors, but he said that he has asked before with many classes, and generally, the answer is not so pleasant.  Because of that, I didn't sign up for it because I do NOT want to take it if it won't actually count (it's like, health and the environment in Spain-might sound interesting to some of you, but not me). However, I am definitely looking forward to the two music classes! Everything I take here counts towards the seven 600 level classes I have to take to get a spanish major, so it doesn't really matter.  Also, there will be a lot of people in the classes with me, so that's good.  

After class today, I went back home for lunch (pasta, finally!!) and did some homework, nothing too interesting.  After lunch (which is about a 2 hour span for all of us to eat, since no one eats at the same time it seems), a big group, about six of us, met up to wander around the city some more.  We headed over to the Arabic part of the city, where there are a lot of small shops with scarfs, jewelry and stuff like that.  Then we decided that since some of us still haven't tried tapas that we would go in search of somewhere that we could get free tapas with some sangria.  This was much more difficult than you would think! We ended up going somewhere that we thought we got free tapas with a drink, but it turns out, we didn't get tapas and we didn't get sangria, so it was all around a failure.  

Then we met up with some of the boys who had also been getting tapas (they succeeded) to walk home and to visit one of the girls who had been sick for the past 2 days and was finally feeling better.  We met her family, which was interesting. They have such a different dynamic than in my apartment, as we often just all sit around the tv watching it at night (I go on my computer) and my señora doesn't really talk much during the night time, just watches tv.  I guess this is the same for a lot of people, but it was different to see a family with kids.  They invited us to stay for dinner, but we had told our señoras that we'd be home so we left. However, dinner at my house was french fries.  Very different.  Generally, it's soup or something with eggs (she's found out that I like eggs, and has started feeding them to me constantly, as it's the only thing I've really liked so far).  But yeah, it wasn't what I was expecting her to put on the table when she came out.  

Also, I've discovered that I lack any sense of direction.  I thought I was good at getting places, but as it turns out, when you quadruple the size of the city I live in, not so much.  It's a good thing I have people to help me out when I get lost, or who I can follow home. I'm working on it though.  I also found a bread shop on my way to the bus stop that looks delicious! I'll be stopping there a lot. Well, time to watch some spanish television. Hasta luego!