This week, in short, I discovered the superiority of Spanish language music compared to songs in English. Besides that, my week went pretty normally. I have no idea why they choose to listen to lady gaga and beyonce when for the most part, they can't understand the words.
Our new (new) Conversation teacher is the most intimidating woman ever. Shes about 6 feet tall and speaks way too quickly and basically gets in your face when she asks a question. So annoying. We don't even know why we had to get a new teacher in the first place! Tuesday we had our first exam, which wasn't too hard but not an easy A either.
On the brighter side, everyone in my class is coming together in hatred for the new teacher, so at least we are not alone. I still love all of my other teachers because their teaching style includes asking you about your life and making us feel awkward while telling stories in Spanish. It makes for funny conversation.
The UMD group is also trying to make it so the program lets us take some classes pass-fail if we wish. Its becoming a big issue because a lot of students think the grades here will transfer as C's and B's instead of the A's that are easy to get in a UMD Spanish class.
After a fairly long week, we went to a Romanticismo museum with Mercedes. Snoozefest. Except we decided to dare each other to touch the antiques while the security guards were not on their "guards". We were all super tired so it was just hysterical. After the pointless museum tour, we got some coffee, went back to Alcala, and ate dinner. Then the girls and I met at Cafe Continental, where we had the waitress Maria, who thought we were locas.
Saturday, three other girls and I hopped on the train and took a day trip to El Palacio Aranjuez, which is outside of Madrid. It was a seasonal residence for the royal family, and it is giant! They have the most beautiful gardens, and two couples were taking their wedding pictures there! It was actually sunny out that day too, so we lucked out! We went in, and all the rooms were so elaborate, similar to the Palacio Real in Madrid. They also had a cool display of clothing worn by the royal family, and the last 5 of so wedding dresses princesses wore. They were all so pretty, and I would love to go back there. We then went to a nearby cafeteria where we each got the special, half a chicken, some sides and dessert. We were all so stuffed and tired on the train ride home!
We tried to go to La Garena, a town nearby Alcala to check out the nightlife, but the bus never came so we gave up and went out in Alcala. We'll try again another weekend.
Just talked to Kath on Skype and saw Harley! So presh. It's been raining here a lot, including today. So after mass, I got some lunch and stayed in and studied and read a bit for our exam tomorrow in grammar class. I'm not too worried about it, pero vamos a ver! I'm happy we have dance class again this week, and just want my test tomorrow to be over with.
Hopefully next weekend we are going to check out Toledo, and who knows what else!
Hasta Luego!
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