Sorry for the lack of anything. I had a midterm this morning. It was the first oral midterm that I've ever had and I was fairly nervous because everyone that went before did very poorly. But when it was my classes turn, I sucked it up and went first.
We had to pick a random piece of paper with four questions on it. We could change pieces of paper once, but you never know what you'll get, it could be worse. So when I knew three of the four questions fairly well, I kept mine.
I ended up answering the first three very easily and completely correctly, on the fourth I had to think a little, and when I took my best guess, I ended up getting it correct.
Things here are graded on a 0-10 scale, 10 being a 100 etc.
So, long story short, I'm pretty sure that I'm the only person who got a hundred, so woo.
Also, yesterday I went out and walked around with my Intercambio. It seems that her English has improved immensely (I think that she's just more comfortable around me, so she isn't scared to speak in English.) I feel like she's the least stereotypical Spaniard (that I've met), she doesn't like coffee and she doesn't like Barcelona (and think's that it's boring, not sure as to what she's comparing too, but okay..). Even so, she complains about the weather just like everyone else here, "Oh no, it's only 65 degrees, put on a coat," or "Ahh so hot, it's 75." These people don't know weather. I love em, but they don't know what real weather is.
"Gotcha" still seems to be the leading word in her English vocabulary (much to my amusement), and I helped to reinforce her understand of "Under", "Over", "Above", "In-Between", and "Here". Just an FYI, does anyone know how hard it is to explain any of those terms, without English, just using hand-signals AND without looking like a moron?
I'm sure that I looked especially stupid while explaining In-Between. I ran over to a tree, point at it VERY enthusiastically, ran over to her, pointed very enthusiastically, then ran and stood in the middle of her and the tree while saying In-Between like 3928423 times and jumping up and down. There's no going half-way in my explanation hah. I mean, I'll probably look like an idiot anyway, so she might as well learn something.
Just before she left, she invited me to come out with her and her friends for San Juan, and I'm a little concerned. On a scale of 1-10, these people party like a 30 on the weekdays, and like a 60 on the weekends. San Juan is the biggest party holiday that they have here.
She told me to take a train to Sitges, the beach town I visited earlier, and that I would then have to take a train back to Barcelona on monday, (we have monday off from school for recuperation purposes, if that says anything). Naturally I asked where everyone slept, because you know.... we'll be there for a night. Apparently there is no sleeping on San Juan. None. Nada. Zilch. Cero. Zero. So, we'll see how this goes, as usually, I have no idea as to what I'm getting myself into. Cheers.
Last, but not least (whew, just imagine that I'm saying this entire post without any pauses, it'll be more interesting, I promise), I was tired of being with Americans, I mean I'm in Spain right? So I just went to my favorite little (literally) cafe, the "Petit Pot", and asked the bartender where I could meet some locals and where I could practice Spanish. He told me that I should basically just walk into some bar or cafe, and talk to people, but then he stopped and told me about a bar/cafe that was nearby and that had an Intercambio program. Basically people go there on thursdays, and they practice languages, (I think it's all languages, not just English and Spanish), so a friend and I are going to that tonight because... I mean if I love having one intercambio, then having several will just be the greatest thing ever, right?
Wrong. That was basically the most intimidating thing I've ever tried to do. I have enough guts to do a lot of things here, but I cannot walk into a bar that I haven't been to, talk to a bunch of people who at least 10 years older than me, who I don't know, and in a language that I'm not comfortable with. So, I'd love to say how it went, but that's not possible because it didn't happen, for me anyway.
Furthermore, my host mother and I ran into one of her neighbors today, who apparently has a daughter who wants to learn english. So I'm pretty sure that my host mother is going to try and set up a "get together" for us so we can practice our respective languages. That's all. I'm drained and it's not even 9.
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