Lunes!

Monday! I am going to elaborate a little about a kind of regular day for me during the week...

8:00 - I woke up and at some chocolate cereal that Romi bought for me. I usually don't eat really sweet cereal, but I like this kind, very chocolatey. I also ate an orange and had orange juice. I think Romi makes herself fresh squeezed orange juice some days, but not for me, she buys me orange juice, but not often. Romi makes me breakfast sandwiches, they are regular sandwiches though, but i take them for lunch a lot. Its a money saving technique.

8:30 - I walked to school. It only takes me about 20 minutes to walk to school. It probably wouldn't take me as long if it weren't uphill. I prefer it to the metro though because I find it kind of abrasive in the morning. Plus I get to walk with all the parents holding hands with their kids walking them to school, its very cute. I also found a squat that these kids are living in. I will have to take a photo because its this amazingly beautiful old house that is just kind of boarded up and there's graffiti that says things like punx rule and stuff. Very interesting. Its across from the pizza hut, go figure.

9:00 - spanish class with Francesc. I like my spanish class, it's about 12 kids and we just kind of chat about our weekends and our lives in spanish. The teacher is really nice and it is a very low pressure environment. We get small exercises to complete, nothing too big. On monday we read mystery stories and talked about them as well as our weekends.

11:00 - Spanish Art and Cultural Heritage Class with David Sanmiguel. David is the new teacher, he's much better than our last teacher who left suddenly for a month. She's from Australia and we think maybe her house burned down in the fires. Anyways David is cool and last week decided we should have a test, that i took today. The class freaked out a little but it was no big deal really, so he kind of scolded us during the class because we had a paper and no one had printed it yet. Printing facilities here aren't really up to par. I am getting lost here sorry.

12:45 - Lunch! I decided I would not eat romis ham and pate sandwich that she make. My stomach was still woozy from the flu or strep or whatever I had the last week. I saw a doctor but she only spoke spanish and didn't tell me what I had. She said I had plaque in my throat, gross i know, you should have seen it. So i went to a little cafe with my friends and ate tuna croquettes which look like mini corndogs except they have tuna mixed inside, yummmy and my other favorite, patatas bravas. They were spicy too, it's hard to find spicy food here. The spanish don't really like spicy foods.

13:45 - Yep military time. More spanish class, can't really remember what we did. Maybe we talked about our family or what celebrity our partner looks like etc etc.

15:45 - Spain in Europe. Easily the most difficult class I have ever taken. It's all about the development of urban cities and the economics of it and all this stuff. The teacher is spanish and she speaks in really fast english that is kind of you know like a little off it takes a while to figure it out sometimes. I have never studied anything like this so I am learning kind of a lot and some of it is pretty obvious but it is stressful.

17:30 - I scramble to finish a long paper that was due for spain in europe that I didn't realize was do/didn't want to do because i was sick over the weekend.

19:30 - I begin my walk home trying to avoid all of the dog poop that has accumulated in the sidewalks from the day. Don't get me wrong I love the little dogs here, they are so cute and many don't even use leashes, apparently the pickpockets don't go for dogs. I just don't like their little 'cacas' they leave everywhere.

20:00? - Arrive home and watch pasapalabra on the television with romi while eating some white bean soup with some vegetables and a tortilla de patatas. The spanish tortillas give me a little heartburn I think. Can onions do that, I really don't know what it is. Romi was using her cell phone during the program today and then after she was done she asked me if I was eating my breakfast sandwiches. I said yes I eat them while I walk to school, obviously a lie. She said oh okay, when are you going to get fat, engordar was the verb of the evening. I told her I can't get fat and that i eat a lot. Keep in mind I am a recovering sick person! She told me that if I don't start eating more I will always be a stick, which she has told me before. I told her again I just can't engordar okay! Then she asked if my whole family was thin, I said no and then I showed her some photos of my family and she said they looked strong, that I looked like my mother and my sister is guapa! I also showed her a picture of Buddy, the dog. Then she told me all about this little dog she had for a while and proceeded to dig through her photo album for twenty minutes looking for a photo of him and not finding one. She said its name was Rocco but she had to get rid of him because he was destroying the apartment. She never found the photo and then we finished watching pasapalabra, which was kind of a boring episode but they mentioned Prince! and the clue was that he was from Minneapolis! Romi likes prince, we've already talked about him, she called him the little black man.

21:30 - I was tired at this point and just went to my room and went to bed. But then I couldn't sleep so I just laid there for a while. Then i fell asleep

I hope that wasn't too boring for you to read, thats a pretty typical day for monday anyways. Thanks for putting up with typos too because I didn't proof read that at all. Adeu!