Great Weekend:)

This weekend was the best yet! Friday my friend Taylor, the other exchange student from China, brought me and Andrea out to meet a few of his friends. They were very nice, and we had a lot of fun. Taylor’s best friend in Spain knows English very well, so I would try to speak in Spanish but everyone ended up speaking mostly in English. I don’t like when people speak to me in English because I want to practice Spanish. When people just speak to me in English without trying Spanish, I sometimes tell them to speak Spanish, but then I am embarrassed when I don’t understand. Most people speak to me in Spanish first though, then if I don’t understand they will explain it in English. I like when people do that more. When I hung out with Taylor and his friends, I took the bus for the first time by myself! On the way there Sonia had to go to Basketball so she helped us get there (it was very easy). On the way home Andrea and I were a little nervous. Paty, my other host sister, was texting me reminders about the bus. One text Andrea and I thought was just information we already knew, but eventually asked Taylor to make sure we translated correctly. We didn’t. The text was telling us to press a button on the bus when we needed to get off. Andrea and I didn’t know this so thank god we asked Taylor! He explained that one of his first nights out he took the bus home and didn’t know that and long story short it was a really really bad experience for him! So I am happy that didn’t happen to us. 

Saturday I went to a surprise party for my friend Laura. I was really excited to be hanging out with only Spanish people, but I was also soooooo nervous all day! My spanish is getting better, but it is still a struggle for me to communicate and understand. At first I felt a little awkward because I had no idea what anyone was talking about, and therefore couldn’t contribute to any conversations. Eventually everyone was including me and helping me understand. I met a girl Clara at the party who I really like, but she doesn’t go to my school. She was very nice, and we had a lot of fun talking, dancing, and taking pictures! It was hard not being able to be my usual self at the party because of my Spanish, but overall I still had a lot of fun with everyone!

Sunday, Andrea and I went shopping! I brought a small amount of clothes so I could buy a lot of clothes here. Because of when our host parents could drop us off and pick us up we were there for a longgggg time. We didn’t mind though:) When we were there I realized it was near the town my friend Emilio lived. Emilio was an exchange student from Spain at my high school last year that I was friends with. I wanted to meet up with Emilio, but unfortunately he was really busy. We planned on hanging out soon though, which I am very excited for! I am hoping when we hang out I will be able to speak with him only in Spanish. 

School today was veryyyy boring because I was extremely tired from skyping my mom late last night. School is hard enough to pay attention in the U.S. when I understand the language and wayyy harder here because I barely understand what the teachers are saying! I finally performed my song for my English class though. We sang the cup song for our English song. For our Spanish song, we ended up singing the song Vamos a la Playa (several of us exchange students loved singing this song all the time in Barcelona). It was a pretty easy song to sing since part of it was in English. Andrea and I added some choreography which everyone thought was hilarious. Even though our voices were HORRIBLE the teacher loved our performance and gave us a 10 (grades here are 1-10, they don’t have A’s, B’s, etc.) We also had to record it, and later edit the video by adding cool effects, so maybe I will put it up on my blog when I finish. It’s pretty embarrassing though so I’m not sure!

p.s. To any of my English teacher’s that are reading this, I originally was trying to have good grammar and follow all the rules I have learned while writing these blog posts. I got too tired of paying attention to those detals. Please don’t be disappointed with my several grammatical errors I made or will make:) hahahah

Me, Clara, Pablo, and Julio at the surprise party:)