Midterms

You should know that I am using a computer that does not have a mouse so I am using all keyboard codes and tab just to write today because I knew that if I missed two days in a row I would have some angry folks haha.

It´s midterms week so I have been really busy studying...luckily that means I have been sitting at little cafes in Segovia studying...hard life. My exam in mañana and it´s gramatica...whoo! It is probably going to be really really hard but I am just going with it! I have studied and will do some more so hopefully I should be fine...ugh.

My clase de historia has been really hard as well just because she is a local and speaks really fast and she takes us around the city almost everyday and shows us the places we are talking about in class...the problem however, is that she takes us through the city and we have to dodge the cars and mopeds and try to hear her over the construction or the ambulance or whatever happens to be going on in the street we happen to be in. The cool thing about it is that I will never take another history class quite like this...we get to go into all of these smaller iglesias (churches) and sit and learn about them. Don´t get me wrong the cathedrals and huge mezquitas are really amazing but I have really enjoyed going into these smaller churches...I like them more. And most of them are not open to tourists or for tours...so we get to see some amazing things that most tourists will never see.

As for the language, I am understanding much more than I did before...but here the moment we got here, all of our rules, vocabulary, structure went out the window. And you just try to communicate the best you can. I feel like I have picked up a lot and understand a lot...speaking comes a little slower. Of course I am speaking a lot as well...but I make a lot of mistakes things like¨"he have a dog" So I can be understood but I am sure that I make these kind of mistakes often. But honestly, the improvment has been amazing! (I´m really sorry for the spelling, I am losing my english...I can´t remeber how to spell a lot of words and I keep trying to structure them as if they were Spanish,...weird!). Megan and I were also talking about how we forget that the language here isn´t our own. I don´t notice that people speak in Spanish around me...it just seems so normal to me now. Before you try so hard to listen and figure it out and it sounds like chaos...but now I just get phrases and conversations and then have to go back and think about it cause I can´t remember if it was Spanish or english...meaning the meaning is going straight to my head so I am not always translating everything. It´s bizarre, to say the least.

We leave for Lisbon Thursday night after midterms! I won´t be updating during the weekend...if you need me I will be on the beach in Portugual...buena suerte! All is well here. It´s just like everyday life now. A lot of students have started to get home sick or ready to go back...I think it´s the stress of midterms and that mid way mark. I´m not ready yet. I am really enjoying it...do I miss the english language...yes! Someone said good morning to me in english and I almost kissed him!

Well all my love! I am going to go attempt some studying...I have another class and then lunch, siesta, we are visiting the Alcazar de Segovia...beautiful and then more studying!!! Wish me luck!

Vida, Amor, Viaje