Jan 14th – First Day of School

Today is the first day of school and I’m so excited to start my classes here. On Mondays I have two classes, the first being at 11am. It is Civilizations and Cultures of Spain with Carlos (the moody rocker, I mentioned before). This class basically talks about all of the different cultures and aspects of Spain and how they came to be that way with the mixture of different religions and people and the many conquerors that have come through. So it’s how Spain is the way it is. The class seems really cool. Then my next class (which is only held on Mondays) is Spain through film which is taught by the actual director of the entire program for foreign exchange students at the university. The class is actually showing the history (particularly political) of Spain and is completely in Spanish with no subtitles, which is hard but it’ll get better the longer I’m here. Today we watched our first movie called The Language of Butterflies. Sounds like a different movie than what it is. It’s about a boy and his family who are for the republic in Spain and it is at the cusp of the civil war. Pretty good. After, I went back to my host home to have late lunch/dinner. After talking about cartoons with Adrian (he loves to watch Clifford the Red Dog) I went to my room. I was going to meet with friends later, but the weather was getting really icky so I decided to stay in and rest up for the next day.