Yesterday marked the start of my second week of school in Seville. I've finally worked out all of the problems with my schedule and my stress has officially gone away. For the semester I will be taking two history classes (Medieval Spain and the History of Spain), Mujeres en Europa (Women in Europe), Traduccion (Translation from Spanish to English and vice versa), and Ecological Systems. It's quite the mixture of classes, but I'm working on getting all my Liberal Arts credits out of the way, so when I return to Bryant, my focus can be solely on my business classes. All of my professors are really nice, and for my classes taught in Spanish, the professors make sure that the class is following along and ask if they need to speak more slowly, etc. I'm sure this will be a great semester!
For many of my classes, we will be going on small field trips to see different sites we talk about in class--which will mainly be for my two history classes. I will also go on a field trip with my Ecology class and we will be taking a hike to God only knows where. I told Mom to send me some old sneakers, because the professor showed us pictures from last year's field trip and students were falling right and left into the creeks that we have to cross over on LOGS. I've never been much of an outdoorsy person, but I will have to keep an open mind about this one--and I have a couple of months to mentally prepare myself for it!
This weekend my group is headed to Granada, which is southeast of Sevilla. Believe it or not, it will actually be cooler in Granada than it will be in Sevilla. For the past few days now, we've been experiencing temperatures from 99-105 degrees, so going to Granada for the weekend will be very nice as it will only be in the high 70s and low 80s there. I'm excited to get a change of scenery and start to travel around a bit!
Home life is going very well. I think my stomach has finally adjusted to this very weird eating schedule--so that's always good. I'm concerned, though, about when I get back to America and our family is eating around 6PM and I won't want to eat that early! Each day I try to communicate a bit more with my family so I can develop better speaking skills and I've already seen a marked improvement. When I was Skyping with Sam last night, he could hear the conversation Juani was having on the phone with one of her friends--mind you my door to my room was shut, and she was all the way on the other side of the apartment. I had been noticing how loudly they talk and now Sam can attest to this fact as well--it almost sounds like they're yelling, but they're not!!
That's about all for today! I have to eat lunch pretty soon and then it's off to class :) Hasta luego!
Besos,
Lindsay
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| Outside of the Seville Cathedral |
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