I believe that I left off on Tuesday...
On Wednesday, I went to my friend Blanca's house for lunch. Her mom made lasagna, and it, just like everything else here, was different from the way we make it back home, but still delicious. After lunch I went to Blanca's English class with her, because her teacher really wanted to meet me, and also Blanca is preparing for the Cambridge exam in December which is this crazy test that gives you a certificate of some sort that I really don't understand, all I get is that it's a really big deal, and there's a conversation portion that her teacher wanted Blanca to practice with another student, me(: Her teacher was super sweet, she made us tea, and let me eat all of her Spanish m&ms. We also played pictionary, and I helped by translating some words that they didn't know. Overall, it was a very good time. After the class, I ran with a Rotex (ex exchange student to Pennsylvania) from my town. It was really fun, we are pretty evenly paced, and she understands what it's like to be on exchange so it's really nice to talk to her. And actually be able to understand each other (we kind of speak a mixture of Spanish and English... It's like Spanish until I don't understand her, or can't respond, and then we switch to English until I randomly say something in Spanish and we switch back, it actually seems to work out pretty well).
I don't remember anything from Thursday... I'm fairly certain that I slept the majority of the afternoon, and nothing exciting really happened. Actually... That's exactly what I did(:
On Friday, some of my friends and I don't have a last period, so we get out an hour early. Sadly enough, my bus doesn't come until school gets out, so on Friday my friends and I hung out in the park next to my school for that hour. It was reallllly fun, just talking, goofing off, and learning lots of new phrases.... It was really fun. I went home for lunch and siesta, and then around 5:30 I went to the dirty place with Blanca, where we met up with probably 10-15 of our other friends. We hung out there for a while, and I did magic card tricks for them... I actually got them all with one trick, and the other one only one other girl knew how to do so I felt pretty magical. It was realllly fun. We had to go see a play at the theater for our Castellano class that night, so 6 or so of my friends and I went out for dinner at the pizza restaurant in my town. It was delicious! Around 10 we went to the theater, where we met the rest of our friends and went in to see the play. It was really confusing. There were only two actors in the whole thing, and the set didn't change, the only indication of a different location was a fog machine, and the woman in the play would write the location on a chalk board. It was a bit abstract, but it was a pretty interesting experience. Afterwards, I hung out with my friends, and around 12:30 I went home.
On Saturday, I had to wake up early because my host mom, host aunt and I were going on an excursion! It was a 6 hour hike in the mountains to an abandoned village named Ainellie. Which I still can't pronounce. There were about 40 people also going, my friend Andrea was among them along with my new friend Pablo (who is a year ahead of us in school). The three of us stuck together, and we had a lot of fun. We hiked up, which took about 3 and a half hours. When we got there, the three of us were pretty tired, so instead of hiking into a canyon place, we fell asleep on the grass for an hour or so. When everyone returned, we ate lunch, talked and hung out. The adults drank wine, and we had coffee.
The hike back down was definitely quicker, but it was pretty tough on my hips and knees (because I'm a 90 year old stuck in a 16 year olds body), and my hips are still kind of sore... When we got to the bottom of the trail, there is an inhabited village in which Pablo lives, and there there was a band, and Spanish hot chocolate. Here hot chocolate is more of a food than a beverage, it's pretty much drinking warm pudding.... It's delicious... Andrea, Pablo and I hung out for a couple of hours, just talking and resting, but soon a group of nine or ten year old girls decided that they needed to come annoy the heck out of us. I know that none of you read this, but this is my formal appologie to my brother and his friends, because I am now fully aware of the 10/11/12/13 year old girl that I was. And oh my goodness. (It just kind of makes me feel better to at least put that out into the universe). We dealt with them for a couple more hours, and eventually locked ourselves inside of Pablo's yard to get away. I left with Andrea and her family around 9:00 or so, and they took me home (my host mom had left hours before). I had dinner, and fell asleep quickly.
Yesterday, nothing exciting happened... I slept and watched movies all day with my host mom. It was nice to have a lazy Sunday. Today I went to school, and afterwards I came home, had lunch and siesta. Around 5:30, my host parents had to run some errands in town, so I tagged along. It was a nice afternoon. We had pizza and salad for dinner, and my host parents told me about some crazy Spanish parties (mostly the running of the bulls, since we are only about an hour from Pamplona).
It's only about 10:30 now, but I'm fairly tired, so I'm thinking about sleeping soon. I'll add some pictures, and try to update soon. Hasta luego! Zeph(:
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