Que Tal?

Sorry it's been a while since i've posted something here. I promise I won't neglect this poor little poor little blog anymore :P

Anyways..... hmmm lets see what have I been up to the past few days?
Well last week I went to dinner in Madrid with Nacho and my host mom. We had delicious paella and this weird fish thing that I didn't like. While walking to the restaurant Nacho showed me the corner where all the tranny prostitutes hang out and the best place in Madrid to get a tattoo. Good to know :)

This past weekend I went to Jaen in Andalusia, which is where Nacho lives, to visit pretty much everyone on the mom's side of the family. My host grandma was nice except for the fact that it was kinda hard to understand her. In Andalusia they speak spanish oddly. My host dad calls it "Spanish with minimal effort" For Example, Adio=adios ma=mas como sta=como esta

On Saturday, I went to the Alhambra with Nacho and his cousin Inez. It was a fairly short drive from Jaen to Granada. We passed the time by rocking out to Ke$ha and Katy Perry. (ohh this is completely random, but in spain they don't write Ke$ha's name with a dollar sign. weird right?)


The Alhambra is basically a series of old Arabic influenced architecture. Super beautiful! I thought it was funny that there were hoards of japanese tourists there taking pictures with a sterotypical peace sign. Nacho and I had fun imitating them in pictures :)

The day we went to Alhambra was on September 11th. It didn't even strike me until Nacho went to go get the admission tickets and the ticket machine said "11 septiembre 2010" I didn't really think about it that much. I just remembered what it was like, how long ago it was, and how young I was. In a weird way its nice to know that while everyone back in the states was being super nostalgic and sad, I was having fun in Granada.

The only bad part about this weekend adventure is that Nacho has to stay in Jaen :( I'm gonna miss having someone around close to my age to talk too and help me with spanish, but i'll see him again eventually. Now that I live with just the host mom i'll be learning alot more spanish

Yesterday, an american exchange student who is staying with my host mom's friend came to the house. Turns out shes also from California (San Louis Obispo to be exact) Her name is Lauren and shes really cool. She lives like five minutes away from me but shes going to a different school :( Later we went to a local Rotary Club meeting at a restaurant. Basically it was Lauren, myself, two other exchange students from America, and a bunch of old spaniards smoking cigarettes. All of us exchange students kinda sat there bored due to the fact that all the meeting was in spanish. When the rotarians would laugh super hard at a joke, we would all just sit there.... I can't wait for the day when I can actually understand jokes in spanish.

Thats all for now.

Buenas Noches Y Buena Suerte

Annelise