Day 4

Day 4

                Wow, today was a day filled to the brim. I still haven’t quite figured out the typical Spanish schedule, but my day was pretty packed. I started out by making it to Universidad de Alicante at 8:45 and took my almost three hour Spanish 1 class. It was brutal. I believe only ten or fifteen words werer spoken in English the whole time and we learned the same amount of stuff in a day that is usually covered in about a week of foreign language class. In short, I loved it! It was a class I had to struggle to keep up in and have to do a lot of studying at home, but I want to learn to communicate so badly that I’ll run through fire if I have to.

                After class, I went to El Mercado – the gigantic fresh produce and meat market. They had more meat than I had ever seen. It was completely crazy. They had whole legs of lamb, sheep’s heads, and something that looked like a skinned prairie dog but was probably a rabbit. They had cuttlefish, squid, shrimp, and hundreds of other things I couldn’t identify. I was so overwhelmed by it that I couldn’t purchase anything on that floor. However, I went downstairs and looked at the produce section and bought groceries for the first time. It was a struggle, but I learned a little bit for next time. Hopefully it will be easier. Check out my first meal at home! Admittedly it is only produce, but it was super cheap and actually filling.

           

  

      A baked potato, some watermelon, cherries, and a fruit I didn’t recognize – but was delicious!

After coming home and studying some I went with my roommates to find an ATM. It took us a solid forty minutes but we got one…. Then it didn’t work. Thinking that the tour of the Santa Barbara Castle was at four thirty, we made our way to the other side of downtown…… and found out it was until six.  Here are some images of downtown.

 That is the castle we walked to later on (a view from the starting point).

 Sorry about this one - my page is all in Spanish i'm still trying to figure out how to rotate stuff.

 This stuff is either soccer graffiti or revolutionary graffiti; we couldn't decide.

 I guess people write whatever on this wall.

 This looks meaningful so i took a picture, but i haven't translated it yet.

 This (above) is a park on the way up to the castle. I want to do kung fu here.

 Views from/of the castle

 One of my roommates and I just decided to walk around the city before we went up to the castle. We didn’t realize until later we would be walking for six hours.

                After some more homework and food the day came to an end. I really hope I can get this speaking Spanish thing down.