Anyways! I am wrapping up my semester with an obscene amount of finals this week. Probably the most I have ever had (6 in one week...yeesh). I already took two on Monday and then tomorrow I have two and Thursday I have two. Then Thursday afternoon there is a goodbye party for everyone in IES that all the families are invited to, as well as all my professors! I will then start packing because packing more than one night before I leave is just too easy :p
Unfortunately there are no more pictures for me to post but I hope to be taking one later with my host family and posting on here later =] I think Teresa is avoiding a picture because each day her hair looks worse and she keeps saying "tomorrow when I fix my hair!!" but it really just keeps looking worse haha
I have edited this post and included the promised picture of my host family and I for those of you who have not met them over skype or facetime =] Teresa was so funny, she put on make up, dyed her hair, curled it, and put on a nice shirt just for a picture!
but as always there was a photo that didn't quite turn out as planned....poor Isidro haha
Anyways, today at lunch we were all done eating and Isidro got up to clear the table and Teresa got up too (which is odd because usually she usually stays to finish De Buena Ley on the TV) and told me "wait here I have something to show you." She came back with a little black baggie and said "just for you so you never forget us."
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| Glasses because I'm studying and my eyes are starting to get blood shot from staring at the computer all day :p |
The little dotted decoration thing in the middle is the symbol of Salamanca and she bought it at this little tiny silver store in town =] Teresa and Isidro have been such a wonderful second family to me in my 3.5 months here and I'm sad to be leaving but at the same time I am so incredibly excited to be coming back to 'Merica.
My 3.5 months here have been filled with new experiences..some I will leave here because in all honesty I don't want another bite of veal in my life...or chicken/eggs for a while because I eat 2 eggs sunny-side up for dinner about 4/7 days of the week. But in all honesty, I have learned a whole new way of learning in school: instead of constant powerpoints where I just sit there and copy the notes blindly and then never look over them again until a test...I actually have to listen to the prof (it's in spanish too) and pick out what information is important because it's impossible to write everything down and then review my note the night before because the next day in class the teacher will ask questions about yesterday's lecture. I also have learned a new way of studying for finals...which is actually really hard because for once in my life I don't have a study guide or know the format of the exam going into it....and it's actually incredibly terrifying.
Anyways, I have to go study or I for sure will fail my exams but I leave for Madrid on Friday around 4pm my time and then am leaving Saturday morning on an 11:50 am flight direct to Chicago =]
See you all soon...ish =]
Love,
Amanda
