Week 2 is complete! This week of school was still pretty difficult, but it keeps getting easier. Chemistry has been so confusing (it’s confusing in English). Last week my teacher gave me a book and had me study the chapter on Ionic and Covalent Bonds. I figured he was just giving me the easy stuff to start with in order for me to build up to what they were doing. I was wrong, for Friday he began teaching this chapter. I think I had a huge grin on my face the whole class because I understood what he was teaching. When he started doing Lewis structures examples I was already a pro, and I think the class was actually confused! (Emelia if you’re reading this, I kept thinking how much I wanted to give you a high five for understanding, also I hope chemistry without me is going good:) ) I also am now officially going to Paris with the Primero Bachillerato grade in March! I am hoping through this trip I will be able to become closer with the students in my grade. Andrea, Claire and I are also planning on going to Cadiz for a weekend in March to see some of our friends and attend Carnaval! Carnaval in Cadiz is a pretty big deal I guess.
I have become pretty good friends with the students in the grade below me. I went to dinner with a ton of them for Valentine’s day on Friday. It was a lot of fun. I have really clicked with a girl named Iris (who in my opinion looks just like Lily Collins, an actress in the Blind Side). She is very sweet and funny and we said we are going to go shopping sometime soon! I brought a small amount of clothes so I could have room to shop and bring back more. Also, a girl named Paula and I bonded over our mutual love for Joseph Gordon-Levitt at dinner. I was wearing my Tiffany & Co. heart earrings my best friend Logan gave me before I left for Spain, and when Paula saw them she explained how she loved the movie Breakfast at Tiffany’s but never knew Tiffany’s actually existed! I was so excited to hear this because I also love Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Audrey Hepburn:) Overall, it was a great dinner!
My technical drawing teacher saw my sketchbook and was very impressed with my artistic skills. I also couldn’t understand the technical drawing stuff at all, so now my drawing teacher gives me artistic drawing assignments instead, which I really like! I really like my drawing class. There are two boys that sit next to me that are very funny and nice. I talk a lot with Patrick who I discovered wants to go to college at the University of Chicago! He told me his favorite movie is Never Back Down, and when I told him I met Sean Faris from the movie Never Back Down on a movie set my cousin worked on he was shocked and didn’t believe me. Even after I showed him the picture he kept exclaiming “No te creo!” (I don’t believe you). He also invited me to Madrid next weekend with his friends, which I am very excited about because 1. I haven’t gone to Madrid yet 2. He mentioned something about Starbucks (I miss getting drinks at my dads coffee shop every day and starbucks is very similar) and 2. This means I am actually making friends my age hehe:)
Last night my host family and I went to the mall to get some things I needed. It was a hugeeee mall and had so many stores that I can’t wait to eventually go through and shop in. One funny thing I noticed in stores is that all shirts with writing are in English! I don’t think I saw one shirt with a phrase or words in Spanish. We also went into a store which had a whole section with shirts that had U.S. colleges on them! I laughed and had to take a picture. After shopping we went to eat at Pizza Hut, which was kinda nice to get some American food I am used to eating at home.
Everyone after dinner!
Iris and I:)
Claire, Me, and Andrea in our Uniforms
Our gym uniforms
The view of the mountains in my town
The shirts with U.S. colleges that made me laugh
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