In Spain, the biggest meal is lunch, which is in the late afternoon. Yesterday we had salad and spaghetti. Lisa and I think she made spaghetti because the day before we both said we really like pasta dishes. :-) haha And for dinner we had a homemade soup that was very similar to Mrs. Grass chicken noodle and cheese cubes (Gouda cheese with sesame seeds and herbs in it...it wasn't bad) and chorizo which is like a chunky sausage that I guess you could compare to a more flavorful bratwurst. So far the food has all been very good. Lisa and I are finding out that Spaniards don't really save most leftovers, and they hate to throw food away, so she and I are trying explain to Angeles every time we eat that we are full, and she keeps telling us to eat more so it doesn't go to waste. haha It's kinda funny and Lisa and I just look at each other and smile.
I'm walking a lot here. The school is about a 30 minute walk, and the other days I've been here we've gone exploring. So the first day I walked about 3 hours and yesterday about 4 and a half hours, and today another 3 hours or so. So that's good. My legs are really tired at the end of the day, but I'm not all-out exhausted yet. :-) We registered for classes today and met with our professors one-on-one, and I made it into the advanced classes. Yay! I’ll be taking History of Spanish Art, Spain of Three Cultures (A history of the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim influences in the country), and Advanced Communication. J Also, I’m doing a community service class, which I don’t know yet where I’ll be assigned. Hopefully, I’m also doing flamenco dancing classes, a Bible study, and meeting with a language exchange partner, called an “intercambio”.
I think this weekend Lisa and I are going to go over our calendar and figure out where we might want to go and when this semester. We also might go to a bullfight on Sunday. They are really bloody and gory and they kill the bull at the end, and I don't really want to see that part. But the bullfight is at the center of Sevillan culture, and I definitely want to experience it, especially to relate the experience to my students.
I took some more pictures last night on our guided tour, especially when we went back to that governmental headquarters place, which I found out is called La Plaza Espanola. It is gorgeous there. Our tour guide, Martin, is a student at the University of Seville, and he said that when people get married, they all go to this plaza to take their wedding pictures, and every Saturday and Sunday afternoon you can go there and see at least five or six different newlyweds at any given time doing their pictures.
Tonight we went to a park about a block away from our apartment with the rest of the students and had pizza and just chatted for a while. It was a lot of fun, and Lisa and I made a new friend! Her name is Raquel, and she lives about 5 minutes away, so tomorrow we are walking to the school together to go to the photo scavenger hunt they have set up for us. I’m starting to really get my bearings in our neighborhood and in the area around the school, and it’s nice to sort of feel like I belong here, even though I still stick out. J
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