Feb 26th – Day of Huge Relief

Today in my comp class, since the weather was nice, we had to do our interviews with natives on the street. Dang! We were given questions to ask, mainly over the different holidays and how they felt about them, and we could work in groups of two to three. So Victoria, Trevor and I decided to be in a group. For the interviews, we had to talk to two elderly people, two students, and two people that could be of any age. Victoria went to go talk to the first student, while Trevor and I decided to work together with talking to and elderly man; which really turned out to be Trevor taking notes and me doing the talking. Surprisingly the man was really nice and thought I was a native because he said that my speaking was really good! I was really excited and when I said I was an exchange student, he said that I was doing very well with learning and my accent. Then at some point he turned to Trevor and said, do you understand me? Trevor nodded and said yes, but the man simply snickered a little. Then we thanked him and went to talk to another elderly man who was a little more vague to me but started to warm up after awhile. Victoria went to talk to the police man who ended up hitting on her, haha. As we finished with the older man, Victoria had found the second student and we looked for a woman to talk to. As we started to walk up I said, ‘Okay Trevor, you are talking this time!’, I guess she had been interviewed several times because the minute I asked if we could talk to her (since Trevor froze again walking up to her) she wrote us off saying ‘I don’t like any festivals!’ Then we met up with Victoria and walked back to class. That was a lot easier than I thought it would be and I did really well speaking and understanding. However it would have been nice if Trevor has actually done some talking since he boasts about being so good at it…yea right. After class I went over my flashcards for art and before I knew it, it was time for the exam. Carlos said, ‘Why do you guys look so fearful?’, ‘Umm, because you have the midterms!’. Then he handed them out and I don’t think I’ve ever been so excited about an exam…I knew the answers to every question!! The first part showed a picture of a certain structure and we had to answer questions according to the picture. One of them was what type of architecture was it, and the others were based off the answer to the first one. Then on the second part we had four questions over randomly selected periods of art. Once I finished my exam I left feeling so much better because not only did I do well, but now I had completed three of my four midterms. The last one would be on Tuesday of next week and was over vocabulary. I would definitely be able to enjoy the weekend and my birthday tomorrow. Later I met up with Rachel to go shoe shopping before all the sales were over; they end by next Monday and the deals on shoes, especially boots, are supposed to be great. We went all down the main part of downtown Alcala, and I unfortunately found no shoes but did find a pair of cute skinny jeans. I know I finally got a pair, but here they don’t wear them because it’s the “in” thing to do. It’s just a part of their wardrobe, whereas back home, everyone and their mom wears them so I decided not too because it was too trendy for me. But here since it wasn’t that way, it made me more curious about getting a pair, so I did. They actually look pretty cute with all my flats! But I’m sure you aren’t really interested in all that. After I went to my host home for dinner, and get some good sleep.