I’m picking up some faint wireless here at my home stay before dinner so I thought I would write a quick entry. Chris and I moved into our home for the next five months two days ago. We live in a flat about 10 minutes from school with our señora, Rosario and her husband. It’s a pretty nice quiet area with lots of apartments near by. Our homestay parents are both really nice and have been very accommodating with our broken and terrible Spanish. I guess I was really shocked the first day because I realized just how awful my Spanish is. On top of that, I am vegetarian so it makes it even more difficult. She named out a bunch of different types of meat and I said to no to them and when she got to fish, I said I kind of eat it. I guess I came in assuming I might have to resort to eating some fish in order to stay healthy. I just hope I don’t have it every meal! Last night she did make a dish called tortilla, which is actually a potato omlette, which was really good. On the other hand, today she made a rice dish and it was good, but I could definitely see shreds of beef that were stuck in. I guess I can’t be too picky.

Meal times have also been something that I have had trouble accustoming to. Breakfast is at a normal time, but lunch is at 2:30 at the beginning of the siesta and then dinner is at night at 9:30, which is just ridiculous because I get hungry around 6:30. I definitely went to the grocery store to buy some chips and snacks to eat in between. Another thing about my homestay is that it is really cold especially at night. I don’t think the house is equipped with heat and there are tile floors so its get really cold. I wore my sweatpants and hoodie to bed last night because it was so cold. Therefore, showers are really hard to take. Making it even harder, there are no closed windows in the bathroom. There are a few glass shades covering the window so when the cold air comes in, you freeze. I think I think everything will be fine in a week or two when it all becomes normal to me.

Today was the first day of classes. I am taking a total of four classes for 13 hours. The courses that I am taking are all going to fill my perspective requirement, which works out nicely. I’m taking a language class, a literature class, a class on the history of American and Spain, and the professions in Spain. Two of these classes only last the first 7 weeks so that means I only have two classes from March to May, which is going to be really nice. I’ll have a class at 9-10:30 and then a class from 7:30-9:00. Above all of that, there are no classes on Friday. Sorry, had to throw all of that in. Anyways, today is Thursday and there are no classes tomorrow so some of us might go around town and explore the Sevilla nightlife. That’s it for now. I haven’t really taken many pictures, but when I do, I will definitely post some.