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Today was a very long day for me! I didn't sleep much, because I was trying to stay up in order to talk to some people online, as I haven't been able to at all since I got here.  Then I had to wake up early in order to shower before class.  Showering here is quite a difficult thing for me.  First of all, I've only taken three showers since I got here (not enough for me!), but the other day my señora went on and on about how her daughter uses too much water and leaves lights on and doesn't understand how much it costs.  I kind of took that as a hint to use less water.  However, when i shower, I have to hold the faucet, which causes quite a bit of difficulty in actually showering.  No me gusta.  Also, although I have hot water, the bathroom is cold because if you don't open the window, it's like walking inside of a cloud afterwards and everything gets really wet. Also, no me gusta.  So showering is kind of a pain.  Afterwards, we had class for three hours.  I'm beginning to realize that three hours of spanish grammar each days is going to be a lot for me, but I cannot wait to start my other classes.  I'm just a bit bored, because, today at least, we reviewed things that I've been learning since 8th grade, if not 7th (ser o estar para alguien que sabe algo de español).  Después, we wandered around the city because we have this scavenger hunt to do.  There's a list (and it is quite the list!) of places in which we have to take pictures of ourselves.  It's quite interesting, as we have to discover where all of the places on the list are.  Also, we have to take pictures with people at their apartments.  However, the walk home was a little longer than we had planned and I was late for lunch (oops).  It's always hard to tell though, because them seem to eat lunch earlier every day, even though I get home later every day.  Today, I would have been okay if I wasn't home for lunch.  Okay, that's a lie, because there was ice cream cake for dessert! I made sure that they know I like ice cream, no worries.  But the meal was gazapacho I think, which is this cold tomato soup sort of thing.  I don't know for sure, because it was hot, so it couldn't have quite been gazapacho, but I wasn't a fan. So after lunch I went in search of something delicious to satisfy my appetite for something I actually wanted (I'm not starving or anything, I just haven't quite had anything I loved-like white pasta-in my house, only when I eat elsewhere) and ended up going to this lovely little pasteleria where the lady was extremely understanding that I didn't understand anything she was asking me. Then I headed out in search of Andrew and Danielle so we could head over to pick up Dave (one of the guys who lives the absolute farthest away from anything, but getting a picture at his house is one of our requirements for the scavenger hunt).  It was quite the long walk, and along the way we picked up this nice, but kind of spacey seeming spanish lady.  She was scared of a dog, and walking towards us, so she joined us to get away from it, and ended up just walking with us for about 5 minutes (and never went back in the direction she was originally going).  But it was interesting to talk to her.  After checking picture at Dave's off the scavenger hunt checklist, we went to the soccer fields where we will be playing soccer twice a week. It was extremely fun, even though I am entirely scared of going anywhere near the spanish boys who play with us- they're just way too good! So is Profe though! And a few of the other boys. And they were all quite understanding that I can't handle actually kicking the ball (I'm pretty sure I was the worst player there), but it's okay, because I played field hockey for six years, not soccer. It was fun and a good workout, but by the time I got home at 7 it seemed as if I had been awake for days, not just 12 hours.  I ended up falling asleep while doing some reading, but I woke up for dinner (pizza!).  Now I just have to finish some homework and then I can go to sleep again! Hasta manaña!