So I made it to Spain safely and with all of my luggage. I flew over to London with my friend Chris and met up with Chandni and Maria and we all flew together into Sevilla where we met up with Dhruti and the rest of the UNC students. So my first encounter with Spanish people was not something I particularly want to remember. Chris and I got scammed while trying to get a taxi from the airport to the hotel where we are all staying for a couple of nights. We got scammed by 10 euros which is basically like 13 American dollars.

Anyways, so we had a quick meeting with the 80 other UNC students last night at our university, Estudios Universitarios y Superiores de Andalucía and then they had a dinner for us. I can already tell its going to be fun being a vegetarian in Sevilla. If it comes down to it, I might have to give in to eating some fish or seafood. So after dinner we were all dead tired, but we decided to explore around our hotel for a little bit. It was a Monday night so there weren’t that many people out, but we managed to find a nice little bar and got to relax over a glass of beer.

So this morning we were supposed to get a wakeup call at 9:15 so we could eat breakfast and head out to school around 10:30 and yeah that didn’t happen for my roommate and I. Chris knocked on our door at 10:20 and we were like what the heck! But yeah, so we went to school and then the director tells us that they are going to give us a test to see how good our Spanish was. There was a composition at the end, and yeah that definitely did not go well.

So speaking in Spanish is twenty million times harder than the casual speaking we had to do during Spanish class at UNC. I think about what I want to say and then when I actually try to do it, something else comes out. I guess I will have to get used to it and muster up some courage to keep trying.

Right now, its siesta time, which is a time each day where all the shops close up from 2-5 and most everyone goes home and takes a nap. I think I’m going to take a quick nap and then head out and explore more of the city. Tomorrow, we are moving into our homestay, which will be exciting and scary and then on Thursday our classes will start. See you guys later!