Saturday, February 13, 2010
Change is a good thing
Now that I've settled in, things are going much more smoothly. Not that I don't love the excitement of doing something different everyday, but going to classes, coming home for lunch, etc. make me feel like I live here...not like I'm just a tourist, which is exactly how I feel walking around in my windbreaker with a camera around my neck. School has not been too challenging. My phonetics course has been fun...my teacher, Amaya is around 26 years old we think, and she always has games like bingo and guess the entonacion (interrogative, declarative, or exclamative) of a given sentence. It's cool. The other night I went to a bar with some friends. Guess who was the bartender? Yes, Amaya. It was fun. A bunch of us have her for one class or another so we sat and talked to her for awhile. I had to laugh. The unexpected always seems to happen here.
I've been getting closer to Guille through this past week. I've been trying to go out to the living room and talk to Guille instead of being on my computer too much. I really enjoy talking to her. She loves to discuss critical issues in society....always interesting. The other day we talked about the Chinese education system and poverty in Romania and Bulgaria. She brought up an interesting point. She pointed out that Cuba, being one of the most impoverished countries in the world is always in the news and always the country focused on, yet the people in Romania and Bulgaria are just as poor as those in Cuba and almost never get attention or aid. I don't know much about these places, but she seems to really have a heart for the people there.
Tonight is Carnival in Cadiz. I'm so excitedddd. It's a big festival and everyone dresses up in random costumes. My roommate, Paige is being a bumblebee. Guille had two costumes she said she would lend us. The other one is a pirate. It's really big though, so after lunch I might go out and look for a costume store and put something together. We've been watching Carnival on the news here. It's a lot of singing and dancing that goes on all through the night. A lot of TCU kids, including me and Paige are going on a bus through a tour company called Discover Sevilla. It should be great. Will post pics later.
This week was a little tough just because a few stressful things came up back at TCU that I had to deal with. Even though it was hard not having my family and closest friends around me, I'm finding out that I can deal with stuff like this on my own....in a different country. I was encouraged by that. I mean I know a lot of kids study abroad, and it doesn't sound like that big of a deal, but it's hard to leave your language, your friends, your family, everything you know (I'm particularly missing the Starbucks drive through). I'm just really encouraged by how I've adapted in the past week, because the first couple of weeks were challenging.
Anyways....I need to go costume shoppppping! That's all for now folks.
I've been getting closer to Guille through this past week. I've been trying to go out to the living room and talk to Guille instead of being on my computer too much. I really enjoy talking to her. She loves to discuss critical issues in society....always interesting. The other day we talked about the Chinese education system and poverty in Romania and Bulgaria. She brought up an interesting point. She pointed out that Cuba, being one of the most impoverished countries in the world is always in the news and always the country focused on, yet the people in Romania and Bulgaria are just as poor as those in Cuba and almost never get attention or aid. I don't know much about these places, but she seems to really have a heart for the people there.
Tonight is Carnival in Cadiz. I'm so excitedddd. It's a big festival and everyone dresses up in random costumes. My roommate, Paige is being a bumblebee. Guille had two costumes she said she would lend us. The other one is a pirate. It's really big though, so after lunch I might go out and look for a costume store and put something together. We've been watching Carnival on the news here. It's a lot of singing and dancing that goes on all through the night. A lot of TCU kids, including me and Paige are going on a bus through a tour company called Discover Sevilla. It should be great. Will post pics later.
This week was a little tough just because a few stressful things came up back at TCU that I had to deal with. Even though it was hard not having my family and closest friends around me, I'm finding out that I can deal with stuff like this on my own....in a different country. I was encouraged by that. I mean I know a lot of kids study abroad, and it doesn't sound like that big of a deal, but it's hard to leave your language, your friends, your family, everything you know (I'm particularly missing the Starbucks drive through). I'm just really encouraged by how I've adapted in the past week, because the first couple of weeks were challenging.
Anyways....I need to go costume shoppppping! That's all for now folks.
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