La Albaicín

Today was also a long day! The days seem to go on forever here because we do so much in one day, by the night, it seems as if my morning was days ago, not hours.  But it was a pretty fun day either way.  Por la manaña (in the morning) we had class.  Once again, kind of boring.  Apparently I should have had such great grammar instruction in high school.  Oh well, the review is good, since I want to do well on my placement test and Professor Chaston is a fun teacher-I want to take one of his classes back at UNH too.  However, I found out that I got into all of the classes that I wanted! I'm quite looking forward to flamenco! (Our dog is snoring like crazy right now!) During class today, we got to meet our other professor, Maricarmen, who will be teaching our literature class starting in a few weeks.  She's a very interesting women, and also seems to be a good teacher.  She gave us an introduction to the play that we're going to see on Friday-La Casa de Bernarda Alba by Frederico Garcia Lorca.  Lorca is one of the well known playwrights here in Spain, for anyone who doesn't know.  I don't really know any of his works, but I was glad to get an introduction, since I think that I will understand the play much better with a synopsis.  

After class, I went home for lunch and finally, FINALLY, something I really liked! We had chicken baked with salt and black pepper.  Delicious.  I ate three pieces, which may have been a mistake, as my señora has started handing me food now.  Hopefully she won't start force feeding me a ton.  However, I was happy because I didn't like the yogurt I had for breakfast today-some weird brand that was kind of chunky.  I had to eat it in class though, which my señora wasn't quite happy about (my alarm didn't go off, and she woke me up when I needed to leave for class, which I don't understand because she told me she'd been waiting for me to wake up, but oh well, at least she did eventually!) , and she kept reminding me to not forget to bring my spoon home.  It was good though, because I got to class on time (earlier than most!) and got to eat a bit later, which meant I wasn't quite as hungry come lunch time. 

This afternoon, Maricarmen took us on a tour of the oldest neighborhood in Granda called the Albaicín.  It was very interesting to learn all of the history and to see the stuff we'd been reading about. Also, we'd seen some of it, but not known the history behind it.  It was quite the walk though-I'm going to have the world's most sculpted legs after being here! After the tour ended, Profe took us all to this pasteleria and bought each one of us a pastry! I'm really glad I'm here with him, as he is one of the nicest people I've met, along with his wife.  I got one of those pastries filled with chocolate-they're my favorite, and this was by far the best one I've found in this city so far! (Pan y Chocolate for anyone who visits Granada-great pasteleria).  

I am very exhausted now.  Walking around the city is tiring, but I know I will at least be VERY healthy when I get home.  Danielle and I decided we're going to start running at least every Sunday afternoon (I believe we have the same schedule during the week, so maybe then too) and we've been playing soccer with everyone too.  I think I posted about that, but if not, oh well, I'll mention it again I'm sure.  We're playing tomorrow afternoon too, and hopefully there will be more people there.  Profe said that we should be a bit more organized and that those of us who don't know how to play will get to practice a bit more, which will be nice! Well, I'm off to bed-hasta manaña!