Finally Got Internet!

Sorry it has been so long! We (My roomie Hanna (who is awesome) and I) just found out we have internet at our house which is fairly uncommon so we are stoked! We started school on Wednesday. Luckily we are only about 10 minutes from the school so we can walk. A lot of people have to take the bus which gets expensive. I didn't test into the class that I wanted to but it is probably for the better. Class is really awesome though. We go to class for 5 hours a day but it flies because it is so fun. The teachers are really friendly but they don't speak much English which has to be hard for the kids who are here and have literally never taken any Spanish at all.

We are also really close to the beach so I have been hanging out there a lot. I am already pretty sunburned! Our senora, Elena, is super awesome. Everyday I get better at understanding her and now I feel pretty comfortable listening to her. Our host dad, Jose, is funny but not around too much. He had to cook dinner the other night when our senora went out so we got hotdogs lol... typical. But Elena make the BEST food. Everything is made from scratch and is delicious! I have finally gotten use to the eating schedule too! We also have two girls from Austria staying with us and they are super nice (and know english thank God).

Anyways, we went out to El Centro last night which is the "downtown" area where all the discotecas are. It was super crazy because there was a soccer game between Barcelona and Manchester last night and Barcelona won so there was just a bunch of drunk people EVERYWHERE light a Manchester jersey on fire and blowing it up with fireworks.... Just in the middle of town no biggie... It was awesome I am putting a video on facbook so check it out! Also, people get REALLY dressed up to go out... like if we wore the same things to the bars in lincoln people would laugh at us. But everyone here is constantly dressed up (and they are all so damn skinny)! Also, everyone stays out really late. The bars don't open til 11 PM and close around 7 AM. Even older people are out until about 12:30 AM. It's awesome.

But besides everything being so expensive, I am loving it here! The weather, the beach, the school, everything. And my spanish is getting a lot better. Sometimes is just gets so overwhelming to constantly be hearing it. But I am working hard and hopefully I will come back pretty fluent. Anyways, thanks for reading this, I know it is probably just all over the place!

Amber