la universidad

The first weekend in spain was an interesting one...to say the least. the city is fairly easy to navigate (which is nice) but we learned the hard way that young people really don't go out on saturday nights.

We started orientation at la universidad de santiago de compostela on monday. the school is only like a 10min walk from my house which is really nice.

<-- my new school crest!

we go to school for about 4 hours a day monday - thursday and have 5 classes (composition and portfolio, varieties of spanish, spanish grammar, spanish culture, galician culture and history, and a class for my internship). we stay in one classroom for the whole time we are at school so its a little elementary school-ish.

i have an internship at a 5 star hotel in santiago de compostela in the public relations department on thursday nights and friday mornings and i really have no idea what i'll be doing. we have to do 85 hours in the internship and 15 in class. (look up hotel melia araguaney in santiago de compostela if you want to see pics)

i will also be doing community service one or two days a week at either the alzheimers association or teaching english and playing games with kids at the hospital in santiago.

the fam is still crazy as ever...as i write this i'm listening to them talk to the brazillians fam and trying not to bust up laughing. my eating habits are becoming more satisfactory for la mama and she literally cried at lunch today when i finished my salad and my spaghetti. great day. the sun still has not been out since sunday - not sure how long it takes to get used to rain ALL THE TIME! its so humid here that my hair is a frizz ball all the time. i think thats it for now...pics are posted on facebook for you to see (refer back to the part about humidity and frizzy hair and keep this in mind with all pics :))!

miss you all! xoxo