School. Chocolate Milk. Trying not to get shanked...

I feel this post is long overdue. I have been in school for 5 weeks now, so it is about time I share with you devoted blog readers what the majority of my time in Spain is spent doing. I have also realized that my blog is a piece of shit do to the fact that I usually write it in five minutes before I go to sleep. But today, I have 5 hours until badminton, so I will put a little more time into it.

^^Pictured above is my school. Representative of true, ancient Spanish architecture. UGLY?!!! Ugly you say? How dare you call my beautiful institution of knowledge UGLY! Okay, fine I admit it is pretty depressing looking. Or as I would call it "ghetto". Don't worry, despite it's appearance people don't walk around school shanking people, no matter how prison like it looks. Miranda de Ebro is a very safe town.

A normal school day begins with me waking up at 7 30 am and attempting to look semi-presentable before I run out the door to the bus stop. The bus(its not a yellow school bus, but a public bus) drops me of right next to my school. School starts at 8 30am and consists of 6 classes in a day, each lasting 50 minutes. After every 2 classes, we have a twenty minute break where people snack, smoke, talk, ect. Pictured above^ is the love of my life. The coffee/hot chocolate machine of wonders. You pay 30 cents and get a wonderful beverage of yummyness.

Being in the arts track at school...I take some arts classes. First Dibujo Artistico(artistic drawing)-It's a chill class, I like it. It's serious drawing though. we.have.easels! No joke, look at the picture above, we actually draw on easels!!!! Next, Dibujo Tech(technical drawing)-it's a lie. It is not a drawing class. Okay it is, but it's more like a method of torture. I hate that class-enough said. Fotografia(photography)-I hate that class also. We actually get homework and I never have any idea how to do it. Upside is sometimes, like today, we get to go outside to take pictures. Volumen(some kind of 3D art class?)-Love it. We do sculptures and 3D art and the teacher is awesome. She printed out pictures of objects(like scissors) and the Spanish word for them and hung them around the classroom, about twenty of them. How nice is that?

A picture of one of them is below.

I am in the arts class at school but I have to take some regular classes as well. My classes are as follows. Lengua(literature)-very difficult, at the moment I am reading "El Principe Destranado" for that class. Filosofia(philosophy)-the only class I really take notes in. I understand a bit. Ciencias(science of the contemporary world)-I like the class because it's only basic science and I understand a lot because the words are similar to english. Speaking of english...Ingles(english)-the professor speaks english the whole class which is nice, but very bad english. Religion(religion)-everyone talks during the class and the teacher just patientally asks us to be quiet the whole time. Right now were watching "Se7en" in that class.

A couple random facts about school.

1. Science teachers wear lab coats. hahaha

2. There is no toilet paper in the bathroom....

3. I carry around a cuter(which is a sharp knife object) for volumen. In the United States, for saftey reasons, there is no way that would be aloud.