January

Writing the title of that post was so weird. Because when I think of January, I think of cold, cold weather, and snow, and hot chocolate, and days of school...but the reality here is completely different. It's warm. About 60 degrees Fahrenheit everyday...and it's almost always sunny...and then there's always the beach. It's just so different! I think my brain is confused as to what season it is because of the beautiful weather.

Well anyways, I know we are in Febuary now- (don't worry, I'm not totally confused!) but since I didn't update at all in January this is the post for that. I'm just going to kind of throw together a bunch of random things that I've done and seen.

Supermarkets: For whatever reason just going to the supermarkets here are so fun. I don't want to call them grocery stores because for whatever reason the name supermarket seems to suit them better. They have names like Dia, Mercadona, Carrefour... and those are pretty much the big chain ones. It's just all so different. So Spanish. You walk in and head straight for the meat counter (which is huge by the way, and the poor man behind there is always swamped with work. The Spanish love their meat!)... then there is the seafood section... where the freshly-caught fish are all just laying there on their beds of ice. You could reach out and poke a fish eye if you wanted to- they're literally right there as if they were alive but not moving. I promise to take some pictures the next time I go... they'll explain it much better than I can with words.

Basketball: My team has been doing pretty well! I still feel kind of silly because these girls have been playing for years and years and I just jumped in and started 3 weeks ago...but oh well. I've played in two games and we've won both! The first game we played against a team that was not-so-good (we won 70-3), so I got to play alot! :) Because our coach realized that we were going to win anyways so she figured I couldn't screw anything up too badly and let me play almost the whole game :) Then, in the second game we only won by 2! It was super close because the other team was about our level, not better nor worse. So in that game I didn't get to play much, but the only cool thing that happened was that at one point I had the ball and all my teammates were being defended really well so I didn't know what to do.. and I was still pretty far from the hoop. Well, I just decided to shoot it anyways and it went in! Like the only basket I've ever made in a game.. but everyone was so surprised and it was just a cool moment.


In school things are going pretty well... my classes are actually pretty interesting. I don't really know what else to stay about this topic haha.. I understand almost everything and can follow along with the class perfectly now so I guess that's pretty cool! Whenever there's something that mentions the United States... in history class for example, the teachers always look at me. It's pretty funny, I actually taught the class in history about Imperialism in the US, because my teacher was just like "You want to teach?" and I was like "Ok, yeah why not?" So I did. It's realllly nerve-wracking though to talk in Spanish in front of a class of native speakers like that. My words jumbled together alot more than normal..and I like public speaking.


A typical Andalusian (southern-spain) breakfast....Toast with olive oil drizzled on top and slices of tomato on top of that. And with freshly-made Spanish bread...it's delicious

Spain

The 2nd weekend in February I went to Granada with AFS, which was a beautiful and amazing city. That weekend flew by, everything was just like a dream. My next post will be about my time there and I will include a million pictures. :)


Okay guys, thanks for reading :)
Besos, Lani