Routine

Okay, so sorry for not blogging for a little while. This week (or however long it has been since I blogged last) has been pretty normal. I have class 4 days a week. My classes are just that...classes. Yes, I like some of them, and yes, I dislike some of them. I do know though, that I am learning a whole lot through them. I have 3 classes in English and 1 class in Spanish. My class in Spanish is by far my hardest and most demanding class. We have quite a bit of homework every day for that class. My Contemporary Spain class is literally the easiest class I've ever had in my life. We don't do anything. We sit and "research" for 2 hours when in reality, in order to complete our projects, we need about 30 minutes total. However, the teacher in there is wonderful. She is a Spaniard, yet studied in Scotland to get her Master's degree. Because she lived in Scotland, she learned English through a Scottish accent which, when coupled with the Spanish accent, creates a combination that is absolutely endearing. She's actually only our teacher for the first half of the semester and we have another teacher, whom we have already met as well, coming in to teach the second half. Which, as crazy as it is for me to understand, we're almost midway through the semester. WHAT?!? Anyway, so that's 2 classes. My other two are my more "artsy" and "practice-y" classes: Photography and Flamenco. Flamenco is 4 hours long on Mondays and is divided into two parts, academics and dancing. The academic part is INCREDIBLY boring while the dancing part is actually quite entertaining. I'm not as bad as I thought I would be, but let's just say I won't be dancing Flamenco professionally in my future. My teacher is an American so that makes things much easier to understand when she speaks English. Now, my next class is Photography. While only two hours in all, it's still boring...sometimes. The academics are bad. Why? Because my teacher speaks VERY broken English and I can honestly understand him better in Spanish. Now, he's a super nice guy and quite helpful, but he is just hard to understand when it comes to what exactly he wants to do. I can already tell that I'm going to be learning a lot about photography through this class, though. My camera is perfect for it! Well, those are my classes.

Now for the REALLY exciting part....wait for it...here we go...I GO TO ITALY IN 2 AND 1/2 DAYS. I leave for Milan at 9:40 on Thursday morning. As many of you know, I've always wanted to go to Italy, and now I finally am! I'm going to go stay with ole Claudia (who will probably read this blog) and then I'm also meeting one of my friends from Knoxville, Will, in Rome. I go into Rome the night of the 28th (Thursday) also known as THE DAY THE POPE RESIGNS. I have said this all before, but it's just really really exciting to me. Anyway, that's all for today. Get ready for lots in the coming month or so because I have a whole lot of traveling coming up so I'll have a lot to say. Hasta (ta) luego, mis amigos!