And Classes are a Go!

So today was our first official day of class!  I had a presentation about the health care system in Spain for my culture and medicine class at 10am.  It was an hour and a half of this guy speaking the fastest Spanish I have ever heard.  Welcome to class in Spain!  It was really difficult to keep up and even get a grasp of what he was saying, but I managed to get at least a few notes written down and some of the main ideas of what he was talking about.  It seemed pretty interesting though!

After the presentation, I had my Spanish Translation class, which I think I am going to LOVE!  Not only because it is mostly in English, but it seems really interesting.  We talked about how things can be lost in translation and how it is important to not only translate language, but culture.  We are going to be learning different techniques that will help in this process.  Over the next 4 weeks we will be working on a group translation project, which I am actually excited about because I think it gives us a sense of purpose and something tangible that we can see, which I think is important.

After class, we headed to lunch on campus where I had pasta, fish, fruit, and bread.  It was delicious, thank the Lord, because the dinner at the restaurant we go to every night is not very good at all, so we are all normally starving!  I ate a ton hoping to fill up in case dinner wasn't great.

After lunch, a bunch of us headed to the beach.  We went to a different beach, one that we can walk to but isn't as nice as the one we went to on Sunday.  We got there and it was literally a sand storm!  It was so windy and sand was literally all over us.  So we decided it wasn't worth it and we headed back down "La Rambla" and found a cute cafe/bar where a smaller group of us hung out and got some drinks.  We sat around talking for almost 2 hours, and it was so great to have some chill time in a smaller group.  We were cracking jokes and just having a great afternoon.  Now, I am getting ready for dinner (hopefully it is good tonight, we'll see) and I think we may go salsa dancing later tonight, which I am pumped for!  I am starting to get adjusted here, I think it will still take a little more time but I am enjoying it!  I am headed to dinner now, more to come later!