First Day of Classes!

I have survived my first day of classes...which isn´t saying much. Yesterday at 9am everyone in the program had a spanish placement exam where they test to see our level of spanish. The test took about an hour and made me realize that although I can understand spanish, I still suck at grammar. After, I walked around with some friends exploring the area. I also joined the gym which I am VERY excited about. I like running around but working out in a gym is much more fun for me. Plus its making me realize that I am actually living here. I am a resident of Madrid. Wild. After joining the gym I had a quick lunch with friends and then went home to rest (siesta). Monday nights I have a class from 7-10 which seems really late but people where dont even eat dinner until 9 or 10 so its relatively normal. The class is called Sexuality in Spain and its counting towards my sociology minor. The strange thing was about this class was that I had been asking around to everyone I knew to see if anyone else was taking the class with me. Only my best friend (the girl with the hurt foot) and another guy we are good friends with said that they were...we got to class at 7 and WE WERE THE ONLY PEOPLE IN THE CLASS. That´s right, I am now one of 3 in a class about sex. The good thing is that I already feel comfortable with these people so talking is (and never really was) a problem. The downside? I can never miss class. Ever. She will definitely notice if one of her 3 students is missing. And since Kerry (best friend) and I are joined at the hip, she would definitely notice if 2 of her 3 were missing. I have a feeling that the guy is going to drop the class, in which case me and Kerry have our own private class. Should be interesting.

I have my Hemingway in Spain class and my Arts in Spain class today. Hopefully there will be more than 3 people in those classes!

Keeping my fingers crossed about getting the internet today. I´ve been living without it for almost 3 weeks now..crazy. When I do ill be uploading pictures and posting blogs more often. For now, I live at the computer lab.

The weather here is SO hot. Especially at night. We have no air conditioning and we sleep with our window literally WIDE open with out any screen. But our window faces into the building and we never get a breeze...makes sleeping a little difficult but hey, at least my bed is comfortable!