School has started, and I wish it was over. I wasn't even on the list for the first day of school and I had no idea where to go. I went to the wrong room and someone had to help me find my actual room. This would have been really embarrassing but EVERYONE here is suuppper nice, so they laughed with me not at me. Saying school is impossible would be another understatement. Most of the kids in my classes failed last year so they have to take it again. This is a big confidence booster considering they know Spanish and I sit there like a deer in headlights during all my classes. English class is legit. The teacher asks me questions, whether or not I'm the most valuable resource is a different question. When I asked my teachers for help after class (in awful broken spanish) they asked if I was here (in Spain) to solely learn Spanish or pass the classes as well. When I answer both they laugh and say they will "try" to help me. Another boost of confidence. My math teacher talks faster than Busta Rhymes and I think we solved the equation for world peace in physics the other day.
But enough of the torture, let's talk about the good "stuff". I finally got my Phone. I brought over a iPhone 3G and unlocked it so that I could use a sim card from over here. For 20€ I get internet and calling, no too shabby if you ask me. Everyone uses "Whatsapp" here. Everyone. However, my texting in Spanish is like Google's translator. Awful.
I mentioned how everyone here was really nice before. I want to elaborate on that a little bit. Everyone is really nice here. haha. There is not a single mean person. Instead of "oh look at that foreign kid" it's "hey lets go be friends with the american" hahaha you get the point. If you make eye contact with someone it means you shake hands, or two kisses, and you talk. Everyone is friends with everyone. I didn't even stand along for more than 10 seconds on the first day of school before I made a bunch of friends.
I forgot to mention that somehow my original school got messed up somewhere and I wasn't actually enrolled. I had already made a bunch of friends at that school and was pretty upset that I would have to go to a different school where I knew no one. But it was that or change host families, and I DID NOT want to do that. I love my host family, I feel so at home with them.
Now the part that everyone likes, pictures!
It's in English on the bottom so I won't explain. It was beautiful inside but pictures were not allowed. However I did sneak a few on my iPhone :P
Me and my host mom (Paloma) in front of the Church
The church on the right is the original and the one on the left is a copy. They use the copy for actually masses, as you can tell there was one going on when the picture was taken
There is A LOT of graffiti around Madrid. This was awesome and realllyyyy good.
Another example of awesome graffiti.
Francesco de Goya. The one who painted the Church.
A rabbit someone drew. idk it was cool at the time.
VERY famous restaurant that we ate at. Apparently a lot of movies were/are filmed here
Want some wine?
My host father is a camera man for Antenna3 so I decided to shoot a documentary nbd.
Big amusement park.
Typical
My homework.
My class schedule
Neck stretches. Just some notes from class.
Thank goodness Martha was able to help explain all of this to me haha.
This is how you solve hunger in the world. It's all here.
The mall, all marble floors.
Well hope you enjoyed that. If you made it through everything. I don't think it was that much though. Feel free to message me, comment, email whatever. I will try my best to respond when I am free. But as you can tell from my school work I have to study my butt off. If I'm not a super genius when I get back I did something wrong.
Seniors! \m/
