Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Day 2 in Spain

Sorry I am little late on this stuff, but bare with me. I don't have internet access 24/7...which sucks but oh well! Sooo day 2 was very interesting! In the morning, Kaila and I woke up a little earlier and went to the bus stop. (oh for breakfast, we just have yogurt and a piece of already toasted toast with Nutella...very good and light). So we go to the bus stop and there are 2 buses that go by our stop. One is 24 and the other is 92 line. I thought we could get to school by both buses, so we take the first one that comes, which is 92. Unfortunately, my thought was wrong. We have to take the 24 bus...so we rode all around Barcelona and was taken all the way to the beach! Our bus line finally ended and we had to take a taxi to school, which by this time we were already 20 minutes late! We tried asking people if they knew where the school was, but no one does! It was really frusterating, but we got to school fine after in the cab for 20 minutes. He was a crazy driver as well! So overall, we were about 40 minutes late for our first day of school!!! Thank goodness, when we got there our friends were in the room just sitting and talking! We had to take a placement test and then interview for a short time with a profesor, so they could place us in the right class. Of course, I was placed in the beginner class, along with 4 other of the people I came here with! I just cannot speak the language, I can write, but not speak very well! I got a 21 out of 40 on the exam (mind you I was getting over being lost) and I still scored better than 5 others in my group! After our orientation (which talked about activities the school hosts they are huge into partying!) we went walking around looking at stores and other stuff. We walked by all the the touristy things...like Las Ramblas (huge street where you walk and a lot of shops and street performers...huge place of stealing), the Med. Sea, Plaza de Catalunya, and many other things. After walking around, we went on the Metro but it does not stop very close to our house. Our house is up a steep hill and we had to walk up there, so before doing so, we stopped at the supermercado for water! Thank goodness! When we got home, we had dinner which was a ravioli pasta (which was good). I was not able to shower today either! It's been 4 days!!! Today, I was finally able to contact people and I had 3 emails from my parents already! I do really miss home...but I am trying to keep busy to keep my mind off of it!

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