Today!!!!

Today seriously ROCKED. It was awesome. Everything was pretty normal up until the period after break when we got to go with the geology teacher, MaryBel (the one who likes to embarrass me the most) and the director of the exchange program who's our English teacher, Suzanna, to have a culture lesson on Spain. We got to learn how to dance!!!! It was so much fun. Suzanna dressed up in one of the typical outfits of the dancers and she even had those little clapper things (called castañuelas)! We got to try them out. Not to brag or anything, but I had a real talent with them.... The song we danced to was called Sevillana: Algo se muere en el alma. It was a sad song about how you pretty much die inside when your amigo says goodbye. You'd never know it just by listening though because you need to know the words and understand their meaning; other than that it's pretty upbeat! We got to dance and we were partnered up with the boys which was pretty interesting. It was all fun and games until MaryBel said something about how the dance was very flirtatious and you were supposed to look into your partners eyes in a sexy way. Then we all just felt awkward. You loco Spanish people! It was still really fun though. Then we talked about two dishes typical for Spain. Paella and cocido. Paella is seriously too good. I'm asking Aleks's mom to teach me how to make it!! Cannot wait. I will actually make it once a week at home if I can be successful.. Praying I can be. We're having another session next Friday and by then we have to get the ingredients and learn how to make cocido (chick pea stew.. not exactly a fan of those..) but that's our homework. Oh fun fact. They don't use the word tarea really.. Mostly they just say "deberes" which means the same thing. In geology class (it's economics) I started a list of all the words in the book I didn't understand and I've decided that I'm going to become a Spanish Economics maestra (master). Go me! I'm honestly learning so much here. You know the saying "you learn something new everyday"? Well, I learn something new every hour, I swear. So excited for the next few days ahead of me, but I can't believe it's my last week. Going to soak up all the culture while I can. Hasta mañana!!