First Day of Classes

I need to be much better about this blog. I'll work on it. There is just always so much going on that unfortunately the blog doesn't take priority. But I'll see what I can do.

Today was the first day of classes. I had Political Psychology, European Union and History of Spain. These are my three classes that I am taking through my program. The classes are taught by professors of the University at the University but the only kids in the class are kids from my program. All three seems great so far. The professors are all very different but already seem like great teachers. We have been told by our program that college students in Spain don't typically participate in class so I was a little surprised when all 3 teachers stressed how much they wanted their class to be interactive. Apparently the Spanish education system has just evolved to work that way. My 4th class, Photography, is with Spanish students and starts Monday. I'm counting on there being a little less talking than some other classes so I'm more likely to know what's going on.

We also just got back from a five day trip to the north of Spain. The trip was a lot of fun but a little painful with a 9 hour drive to Leon. In Spain, they have a law that the driver needs to stop every few hours for a break. The breaks are pretty long, usually around 45 minutes or an hour, but I guess the law makes a lot of sense in terms of safety. It just added quite a bit on to our trip. We went to Leon, Astorga and Burgos. The towns were all beautiful. Everywhere we have been in Spain so far has just been incredible. The trip was part of our orientation class on art history so we learned a lot about the different art periods and went to cathedrals to see examples. We had a lot of free time so my friends and I got to walk around a lot and explore the cities. I loved wondering up and down the small streets and walking in and out of the stores to see what there was. I absolutely adore walking into grocery stores and looking at all the different food. I think that just goes with my food obsessions. Here is one of the best pictures of one of the cathedrals:

I can't believe it has already been 2 and a half weeks. When I think back to the flight over, it seems like so long ago but not much time has gone by. I'm having an amazing time and so many aspects have turned out better than I though. Now that I've started buying my plane tickets for a few trips, its gotten me even more excited. I wish I could have time to go even more places but I think keeping it simple is the way to go for now. Tomorrow I don't have class so I think I'll go up to join the gym at the University and work on studying for our first test on Friday. Not excited but I don't think it should be too bad. And I'll promise I'll write more!

xoxo