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Well I have been in Spain for nearly a month now, and whilst I'm relatively used to my new life it still doesn't quite feel like home. I feel that I'm definitely throwing myself into the Spanish way of life and the Erasmus experience, although I'm still yet to get the balance between going out and going into uni quite right!
Uni is, for the most part, interesting but very tiring. All but one of my classes are taught in Spanish, so I find that I have to pay 100% attention all of the time, because if I miss something then I lose where I am completely! It makes a change from just zoning out in lectures and copying what's on the powerpoint. I've got one class which I am really enjoying as well, which is about the Spanish used in South America and how it has evolved. The only problem is that it is at 9am on Thursday and Friday mornings!
Other classes which I have tried have been various incomprehensible English and Spanish lit. ones, Spanish language in communication and a module taught in English about genres in English literature, which is interesting but the teacher always picks on me and BJ because we are the only ones who know what she is talking about in the class, being the only English people! Today in complete error we also ended up in History of Cartography - actually really fascinating! The organisation of everything is pretty terrible though, we are each making our own timetables and just going to any class we fancy. At least two days are the same!
I have been keeping up the climbing and have been enjoying it a lot, also helps to be doing a bit of exercise to work off all the alcohol I'm consuming! This week/weekend my aim is to meet more different people, Erasmus students and definitely locals as I feel I'm not talking that much Spanish. Tonight I am going to a geography faculty part with my friends Tom and Charles so hopefully I'll be able to branch out a bit there!
There's not much else to say really as I haven't been up to much apart from the usual. I'm hoping to start doing a bit of travelling around Spain soon though so hopefully things will liven up!
C xxx
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