More on Sevilla

Well, things are going great here in Sevilla so far! Classes have been very fun and I’m learning a lot. I know (or knew, or was taught at some point) all of the stuff that we are learning, but it’s nice to review it. Plus we’re going over things in more depth and talking about exceptions to rules etc. It’s very nice. Plus, every single kid in the class had a huge AHA! moment the other day when Pilar, our teacher, was teaching us about when to use the four different forms of the past. She said one thing about one form of the past being about years past, and one that you use when the past includes the present (for example, a year ago versus this morning) and every single one of us suddenly understood. It was the first time it had made any sense to us, so that was pretty cool.

Today we played Tabu (Taboo in English). But we played it in Spanish and it was a very good tool for practicing defining words. It was interesting to see how hard it was, but it was a lot of fun too.

It’s interesting to notice that now, since I’ve been here for a while, I no longer can tell when people speak to me in English versus Spanish. Or say, if I read a sign, I don’t immediately recognize it for being in one language or another because I’m so comfortable understanding both now. It’s pretty cool. But every once in a while it’s weird to look back and realize that someone was saying the entire paragraph in Spanish, and I completely understood it, just as if I were in class back in the states. Jenna, my roommate, and I were walking around the other day after class and we passed a friend who recognized us and said “Hey guys” as he passed. We didn’t even notice for a few seconds and had to turn around and see him behind us when we finally realized that someone was speaking to us in English, which means it was probably someone we knew! It’s crazy, but I’m getting really good at Spanish, which is cool.

Classes finish up here next week! So soon! And then on February 1^st I travel to Alicante. But classes there don’t start until like the 16^th or something like that. So I get a bunch of time to get used to living there and figure out things like good restaurants, bus routes, places to study, etc. I’m pretty excited!

Well, I think that’s about it. There isn’t really much more to say. I haven’t taken that many more pictures since the first batch because we’ve stopped running around and doing touristy type things. But I’ll add some more up there later, I promise.