Today is day 11 of being in Alicante and I am well on my way of settling in to this lifestyle. However, if I have to pay a euro and 50 cents to get on the internet everyday, I may soon go broke. Everyone says this week has gone by fast, but it seems like a lifetime ago that I visited the Harfords or sat in the XA house that Tuesday morning a week and a half ago.
But everything is going well. We are halfway through our intensive grammar class and it is a piece of cake. Yesterday we went over a bunch of colloquial expressions, one of which was how to say someone is hot. The teacher, being a married man, could not use one of the girls as an example, so he used a guy in our class, Kevin. He said "Kevin esta como un tren" (He's like a train, meaning some really hot stuff). OK, that was a good lesson, but then he brought it up like 20 times. "Andrea says 'Kevin esta como un tren, but Laura says 'no, no esta como un tren'...and he went on and on, making me a little embarrassed for poor Kevin who was sitting next to me bearing it all in good humor. But, hey, now I won't forget it!
Like I said, I'm adjusting. I met the above-mentioned Kevin's older host brother and his friends last night so now I actually know people who don't speak much English. Miguel, Sara, Juan, and Carlos are their names.
Yesterday I was on the public transportation bus (which isn't so bad, really) and I pulled out my bible to read (a little battle in my mind, btw) and a guy named Troy asked me if that was a bible, and what denomination, and if I found a church yet. Apparently he's non-denom/Assemblies of God and so I told him about Cristo Vive and showed it to him on the map, sooo i mean, that's pretty cool. So don't worry, Mums, I..I mean God...has it covered.
I'm fine and dandy in addition to being a little bored. Learning Spanish, making friends, riding public transportation. That's my life right now.
Oh--and the castle was mighty gorgeous--much better than the first one. Yesterday, after finishing my paper, my internet wouldn't work to send it to the prof, so I stuck the entire computer in my bookbag & raced to the meeting spot. The teacher would be there, I would explain it to him, and leave the bookbag on the bus (b/c last time we had rented a vehicle. However, there was no bus. The teacher understood but it was too late to take my computer back to my house, sooooo I carried it up and up and up to the highest point in Alicante. Yeah, it was fun. I have pictures on facebook (or will shortly) of all the steps we went up. It was crazy beautiful. I was thinking as I went up that the land in the U.S. has existed as long as the land here, but it was not developed until recently. That ground under my feet had more human history seeped into it than anywhere I've ever been. Quite cool, actually.
Ok. That's it for now. Check out the pics!
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