Bueno. Cell phone has been bought along with the other few amenities that I didn’t pack to save on room. And today marks the official one week date since we all arrived here last Thursday. Although, as most of us agree, it seems like we’ve been here for way longer than that. Not that that’s a bad thing of course.
Our intensive language class started on Tuesday, so between that and all the orientation stuff that we still have going on we’ve had a couple long days. We had a quick academic advising session the other day and of course everything would conflict for me, although that’s probably slightly my fault coming here with the need to actually take a couple specific classes. Although, seeing how I’ve come to master handling these types of situations, I’ve managed to not only find classes that I needed and am interested in, but have managed to make it so my school week will be from Monday at 1040 to Thursday at 2. Helloooo 3 and a half day weekends. This will be completely and utterly different from my basically lack of weekends last year, so bueno, I’m making up for lost time. (This is all assuming I don’t go to officially register and everything is filled. Which would totally be my luck. SO let’s keep our fingers crossed here.) Also, two of my classes will only meet once a week, for two hours. Hopefully I’m not speaking too soon when I say, WIN.
Tuesday night we had a Salsa dance class and Wednesday night we had a Flamenco dance class. Salsa in my opinion is the more fun of the two. Flamenco was a little more structured and a little more repetitive. Also, less hip movement. And well frankly I can’t keep up the allusion that I know what I’m doing when I dance if I can’t shake it up a little bit. These hips don’t lie baby. I also feel that I have plenty of knowledge to speak on this matter since both classes were an hour each, which clearly makes me an expert in both fields of dance.
This past week, there have been these “casetas” being put up all over town (they’re like mini outside booth versions of the bars and places to eat here), in the plazas and major areas and such. Each caseta has its own special “Pincho de Feria” which is basically its own individual small snack, with either a cup of beer or wine, for 1.80 euro (which is pretty cheap). The food is absolutely delicious, and the casetas are all over the place. The entire city is basically one big party, starting yesterday and continuing on for the next like week. America needs to step it’s game up on how it starts the new school year, because frankly paying for books, moving crap into your room, preseason for fall sports, and whatever little other tedious, pointless activities the school makes you do in the week or two leading up to school fail to compare to streets lined with people, parades, music, food, drink, lights, concerts, fireworks… well, you get the picture. Today is a city-wide holiday so we don’t have class, and so we were all able to fully enjoy the festivities last night.
I can more or less understand a lot of what’s going on now, minus maybe a word or phrase I’m not familiar with. It’s just the speaking part I have to work on a bit, which is a bit more difficult being more of a naturally quiet person. Once all the classes start up though it’ll probably get a lot better thought so we’ll see.
Here's a clip of some of the fireworks from last night.
And here's another video that I accidently took when trying to take a picture and didn't realize my camera was switched to video at first. The music in the streets has to be turned off at midnight so you can hear some people asking where the music went, but you can also get a pretty good idea of how crowded some of the plazas get. Enjoy.
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