!Ojos en su papel! (Eyes on your paper!!!)

Hola from Granada!

As I said before, Spain is absolutely wonderful. I have completely fallen in love with the laid-back culture! My first day in Spain meeting my host mother was very scary. Her name is Señora Julia and she speaks absolutely zero English! She is a widow with a few children who are grown, and she constantly has Americans staying in her home for study abroad. (That is all I have understood, so far)

The first day I was in Spain I was very tired from a weekend in London. We arrived in the apartamento and ate a huge (normal size for the spanish) lunch of spagghetti, hot dogs, potato chips, salad, bananas, cherries, bread, and water. Julia filled my plate with each item and I would try to ask for less, or eat les, but she just kept saying mas, mas, mas (more, more, more) and porque poco?! (why so little) Needless to say, I left the table quite filled!

After our late lunch, we went to our bedrooms to put away our luggage and take our spanish siesta (nap: the spanish schedule a 1-2 hour nap every single day...every single store is closed from lunch until around 4 or 5!) My roommate and I slept from 3pm until 9pm!

Once we woke up we headed back out for dinner around 9:45 (sometimes the spanish do not eat until 10:30, 11, or even 12 in the summer) Then we went BACK to bed to get ready for placement tests in the morning!

My placement test was pretty difficult and consisted of 5 essay questions(30 mins), 56 multiple choice (45 mins) and a 3-5 min oral interview (this was the scariest part). Amazingly enough I placed in Spanish 2! (I have already taken Spanish 1 at McMurry but was worried because it is harder here)
Funniest language mishap so far: during my test, myself and two students next to me didn´t recieve our test at the same time as everyone else because they ran out of the questions. We only had the blank answer sheet...so I was quite confused because the instructions were given in VERY quick Spanish...so I looked up with a confused and stressed out look around the room andthe professor came over and pointed at his eyes and said in Spanish ÉYES ON YOUR PAPER!!!! and made a firm motion to my paper...and then the other professor told him that we didn´t have the question sheet yet and he said in Spanish Ayyyyy! They do not have the questions? Oh no, oh no, not good...

Keep posted for more funny stories about Spain...I have so many it´s ridiculous...
also, stay posted to hear about my first day of class! I am too tired to explain it all now...

P.S. Spanish boys are super gorgeous