Madrid and School

First, Madrid. Well more like the outskirts of Madrid. This past weekend I went to an orientation with all the other inbound students in Spain. There were also a couple of students who had gone to the United States or Canada last year. We stayed at a university a couple miles outside of Madrid. Mostly everyone there was from the U.S. or Canada and there were a couple of Germans as well, so we spoke English the whole weekend weekend consisted of rotary speaking to us for 3 hours and then leaving us to just relax the rest of the time. The reason we didn't go in and see the city of Madrid was because last year some students lost their passports and themselves and such. It was nice to meet other exchange students, ecspecially if we go on the portugal trip in March we will know people already.

School. Today in Lengua(which is like literature) we had an assigment where we had to read a passage and then answer questions. Though I understood the jist of the passage I had no idea what the questions were asking. So instead of answering them I wrote about a page of everything I knew how to say in Spanish and handed that in(so the teacher knew I was trying). That's my plan, to show the teachers that I am putting forth my best effort.

I am in the arts track at my school, because in Spain when you are 16 you get to choose which track you want. I may be switching out of it. Though the classes are easy because there is not as much of a language barrier, I don't know if art is really my calling. So now I have to choose if I want to stay in that or take Math and Psycology. It's a very hard decision, and I completely don't know what to do.

Other than that school seems to pass pretty quickly. We start at 8:30 and have two classes(an hour each) then we get a break. It is a ten minute break where people smoke and have snacks...I drink chocolate milk during this time. Then two more classes(an hour each) and another break...same as the one before. Then one more class and the day is over. It isn't long or tedious at all. Also, from what I hear another a student is coming to the school from Australia in October, which could be cool.