Here comes a ton of pictures! Love you guys and miss you. Really really do :)
This is my school! UGR is split up into a bunch of Faculties and they each have their own building... mine is the faculty of psychology. Its on the very top of this huge hill, takes 40 minutes to walk there from my house. Its a nice walk tho and I only have to do it twice a week. Half of my classes are here, the other 2 spanish ones are in a faculty by my house.
This was the first day of school! We're sitting in the outside cafeteria area in between classes. They serve beer! Figures. Everythings pretty cheap, which is nice. Such a pretty view from up there!
This is where I have my 2 psyc classes. They are hardddddd. The psychology part isnt hard, the understanding-what-the-heck-the-teacher-is-saying part is hard. But it makes me laugh more than anything else. What can you do, ya know?
My roommates Laura and Jessica. Laura's kind of a tight-ass. She got mad at me for having people over too much, being too loud, using her olive oil, and taking too long showers. But she's chill, spaniards are just more straight-forward and direct. Jessica is sooo nice, thrift shop queen, and can speak english.
Other roommate, Isa! She likes to drink and smoke a lot. Shes crazy! But super funny and we've clicked pretty well pretty fast. All 3 of the roomies are from a small town about an hour away and im gonna go visit it with them sometime!
MY MOM CAME! it was theeeee best having her here, showing her around, introducing her to my friends, and catching up. This was the day we went shopping for gifts for the fam in the muslim marketplace.
On her birthday, we went to a granada soccer game! It was soooo fun. Fans are NUTS here... like, nuts. They dont even sell alcohol inside the stadium because people are already crazy. All of their cheers involve some dirty configuration of cuss words. Oh, and we won!
I got a spanish boyfriend! Dont know how that happened butttt it did! He's great, his names Alberto. Twenty-two, civil engineer, super sportsy, studied at UC Davis last year. He took everyone to the game and then had us all over to his house for lunch.
This is lunch after the game... literally, a feast. His family cooked us like a 5 course meal. We ate out on the terrace for like 4 hours, and my mom got to meet almost everyone in my program. It was theee best.
This is Paella... what they cooked for us. HUGE. Its a rice and seafood dish. Famous in southern spain.
Look at the little kid to the left behind us... he was yelling curse words at the team, too!
This was one of the funnest nights, Alberto's best friends birthday. We threw him an american party because he studied in florida last year. The american version of drinking is really different than how spaniards normally drink, so we taught them our ways! It was perfect because a bunch of spanish friends came, and almost all of the california kids (from my program) came too and we got to meet people and speak spanish and teach them drinking games! Thats like unheard of here.
I taught a table of girls how to play beer pong which was probably my favorite part of the night because A, they had never played before, B, my spanish is terrible, and C, they loved it!
Thats the update for now! Really love you guys! Adiooooooooos for now :)
