Good Day

Hola a Todos! Today was my second day of school and we reviewed a couple of past tenses, which I needed a lot of help on. Luckily, I understood all of it and feel as though I'll remember it now. We don't have that much homework, which is also a relief.
After class Meg and I came home for lunch and we had this weird kind of fish that I wasn't in love with. But there were also peaches, so that was a plus. Today Arcadia scheduled us for a tour of La Catedral de Ave Maria and La Capilla Real, which is where the King Fernando and Queen Isabelle are buried. It was interesting, but two hours long and during the middle of the afternoon, so very hot. We also missed siesta, which obviously is a tragedy. The tour guide is a teacher at the CLM (Centro de Lenguas Modernas) and she was pretty sarcastic. She kept saying "Entienden?" (do you understand?) and then answering "no, claro qu no" (no, of course you don't). It was a little offensive, but I think it was just her sense of humor.
After our tour Meg went to the phone store b/c her Spanish phone hasn't been working. A bunch of the girls and I went to the Arcadia office and bought bus tickets for the beach tomorrow. We're going to be there from 12 to 6, so I'm pretty excited. Also, I talked to Christine, who is head of our program and due to have twins any day now. Apparently I got into all my classes and I'm going to be receiving 18 credits at Denison instead of just 15 because this month long intensive course I am taking in September counts as a class! Which is fantastic. I am going to be taking a grammar class, a conversation/composition class, a literature class, an art class, and a culture class in October and November. They are all 300 level classes, so I don't think they will be too difficult AND they transfer back to Denison in such a way that I'm going to finish all my Gen Ed Requirements as well as my Spanish minor. Now that I have that all confirmed, I feel a lot better.
Our teacher told us to buy our book this weekend for class, but I was told there was a library in the CLM, so I just went there and checked it out for free for the month. It's so nice that I don't have to spend money buying the book, but the book they gave me is kind of falling apart, so I'll have to be careful. It already needs some more tape : (
It turned out that Meg thought I wanted to meet at home, which actually turned out to be a really good thing b/c I walked home by myself without a map and actually didn't have any trouble. I think I'm starting to get the hang of the city even if I can't name all the streets.
We had dinner, which was some kind of porkchop and potato. We also had a really great conversation with Maria Carmen and her daughter Julia. I felt very comfortable and Meg and I both talked about our families and about our classes pretty fluently. We are meeting the other people in the program at midnight tonight for our real first night out and Meg and I are both really excited. Hopefully we won't have any trouble getting into the apartment tonight. Haha, we have been practicing with the key all week, so I don't think it will be a problem. Anyway, I have to go get ready, I love everyone!

Love Always,
Em