Tuesday: We had class in the morning, nothing interesting there, just quite a bit of Spanish grammar. After lunch, we went to Cafe Futbol to study. We've been there quite a few times, and the waiter definitely recognizes us. He's really funny though and jokes around a lot. We're also pretty sure he's tight with Profe, because he yelled at us for speaking English and told us that we need to practice our spanish more! However, we ended up getting a lot of good studying done, and shared our resources (My Bible sheets from Spanish 3 are going to save quite a few people!). Afterwards nothing too interesting, just returned to my house and went to bed early, because I was exhausted.
Wednesday: We had class in the morning and it was cool because at the end we watched parts of the Lion King, to show how many uses of the subjunctive there are in our everyday lives, because we have to do this project which includes searching for uses of the subjunctive throughout the semester. After class, we were supposed to go to La Alhambra, to see it for real this time, but I guess they didn't call Profe back (they're really bad about that here-tomorrow means in three weeks). Instead, we went to the movies, because one of the things the program pays for is a trip to the movie theater. Alyssa, Danielle and I went to see Sherlock Holmes. Great movie! I would recommend it to anyone. It was a lot easier to understand than we all thought it would be, which was an excellent surprise. I can't wait to see it in english though, because I feel as if there were a lot of jokes that just were not funny when translated into spanish. But overall, all of us liked the movie. However, after the movie we ended up going on an unexpected little adventure. We always take the bus to go places that are far away, which the movie theater is, so we hop on the number 4 bus, which is the one we take there and supposed we should probably take back. We knew that it had to go to the other side of town first, but what we did not know, was that it did not go all the way around to La Chana. So we're on the bus, not really paying attention to where we're going, just knowing that we'll recognize La Chana when we get there, when all of the sudden, the bus driver is telling us to get off the bus. We didn't quite know what he was saying, and at first didn't even realize that he was talking to us. But after several times hearing "es el ultimo para!" we finally realized that we had to get off. So we're in the middle of some random street, and have absolutely know idea where we are. It looked like the area surrounding Dave's house, so we assumed we weren't that far away from La Chana. However, we began walking to the main street, and looking at our map and soon realized that we in fact were on the opposite side of the city from La Chana, on the other side of the river. Luckily, we found a nice woman who pointed us in the direction of the bus stop (we found one, but apparently the bus doesn't stop there) and got on a bus back. It ended up not going where we thought it was going to go, but we recognized a gas station and got off there. However, we did not know in which direction we were traveling, so once again we had to ask for help. We asked this woman who eventually told us that she has lived in the Chana for 40 years! All of us thought she was pretty young, but it turns out that she was 75 I think! All I could understand was 70 something. However, she thought it was pretty funny that we couldn't tell she was that old, and started to tell us about her kids who go to school in Jaén. People are very nice here in general. So that was my Wednesday.
Thursday: We had class this morning, in which we accomplished absolutely nothing having to do with Spanish grammar, but we practiced talking, which is part of our exam. I was glad for that, because that is the thing I am the most nervous about. Also, we have 2 girls who were here last semester and could tell us what the exam will be like, which I believe is going to be a bit of an advantage for us.
...This post had more, but I couldn't post it for some reason, but I'm off to bed now..Hasta luego!
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