for the most part classes went well. i think my hardest class will be the translation, but i will probably learn the most in that class. the culture class will probably be hard too just because my prof is kind of boring.
liz and i actually decided to drop the teaching class within the first five minutes of class...the first thing she said was this class is going to be taught in english, then we spend the rest of the two hours playing board games and throwing around a stuffed penguin playing getting to know you games. one of my biggest pet peeves is when someone treats me like im ten years younger than i am, and thats basically what she was doing. i think it would probably be an interesting class for people who want to teach, but just not for me...and the lady snapped at me when she put a board game in front of us that on each square had questions like 'what is your favorite book' 'what are you good at' 'what is your favorite color' and i asked her if we were supposed to play in english or spanish...i was just taken aback that an advanced level class would be taught completely in english.

so strange things...
i've caught myself thinking in spanish on several occasions,
i tend to not remember words in english...i find myself searching through my english vocabulary for synonyms of words i can't remember, and after a conversation with someone, i have to ask myself if they were speaking to me in english or spanish because i fully understand what they are saying...yay
and while we were in italy, all of us instinctively started speaking spanish to the people we met..which suprisingly worked...i had at least three conversations with italians...them speaking italian and me speaking spanish.

best day ever: i got back from ITALY and i had two letters from friends in morris, and a package from my family that was so big that i had to go to the post office to get it, then the next day i had two more letters from friends in morris!! :D

liz, morgan, and i were going to go to madrid again this weekend but decided we were way too exhausted, so we have a four day weekend here in granada, then in two weekends we are going to sevilla, corodoba, and gibralter, then the weekend after that is dublin. then we go to morrocco at the end of november, and then we are going to paris at the beginning of december for liz's birthday! when we get back from paris theres a week and a half left.

written by  Taryn Hawkins on October 8, 2009 from Granada, Spain
from the travel blog: Granada
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I find what you wrote about thinking in Spanish and wondering if you WERE speaking in Spanish or English after a conversation so interesting. I can see that happening.

written by  Teresa Haselmann on October 19, 2009

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