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5 nights in Spain, 2 hotels, 5 hotel rooms
Things have been sufficiently interesting the past day or so.
Orientation started on Monday night, as was more or less a gathering to get basic information for the following day, meet the directors and get to know other people in the program. Most people seemed to have roommates when orientation started, so I was slightly confused as to …
Capella!
... were leaking sap). The torreros came out, waved to the crowd, then unleashed the bull. Now, this was not a full grown nose-ring bearing bull, this was a baby of about 6 months, though it still could easily knock a full grown man over and poke you with its little horns. The other difference though, is that since the bull is smaller, it can manuver more quickly and run faster. This type of bull fighting is quite different from the real thing, the ...
No School, Free Friday!
... I leave Spain (I bought "10" stamps which actually equals 10 big stamps and 40 little stamps). But, as we say in Spain, "no pasa nada" (which is kind of like, "its nothing" or "its no problem").
Not much else going on today right now. Bout to go eat lunch. Then this evening I´m going to the equivelent of Prom with my host sister. We´re dressing up and going out to get dinner somewhere then going to the discoteca. Should be interesting! I´ll post more later on that. ¡Hasta luego!
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Jaen: The Parents meet Spain and sleepy fountains
... fountains in terms of when they were asleep and when they were awake. My parents found this extremely funny. Someone else will have to weigh in on whether or not this actually seems abnormal to you because I'm not convinced.
During our debate on the sleeping fountains, mom decided that her favourite part of Spain thus far was the abundance of pretty flowers, and ran around the plaza smelling them all.
From the plaza, we headed over to ...
The beginning of the end
... doubt the whole year that they were picking anything up that I was saying. This past week though, I've been listening to them speak more closely and have realized that despite all their materials being in British English...they've picked up a fantastic hint of an American accent. Instead of "hello" I get "hullo". Instead of the proper "page twenTy three", I hear "page twendy three". I've reformed the proper response to "how are you?" from ...