Awkward day

Today was rather interesting! I woke up later than I wanted to but we managed to leave the apartment by 740am. We had to be at the school for our first class at 8am. We got their a couple of minutes later after riding the metro there. As soon as we arrived we took a 15 question test, wrote a short passage, and had a conversation with someone in order to determine our proficiency level. Somehow, someway I actually scored a C2, which is their mastery level. After the test, we went for a brief tour around Madrid. The guide told us some history about the places we saw. I took pics, they are at the bottom of the post. Afterwards, we were talking to our directors from UTA. They asked us how our living conditions were, so I told them the truth. I told them how Monica had to take a cold shower (I did too), because our host turns off her gas, so it doesn't get wasted. I told her how our host wouldn't allow us to store water in the refrigerator because there wasn't any room. I told them how noisy and scary the neighborhood was. I mentioned to them how she had told us, she wouldn't be serving dinner on Sunday, only "bocadilla" (snacks). I also told them she didn't have any hand soap in the bathroom and I was really concerned about that. I mean that is exactly how people get hepatitis A. Anywho, I suppose because of my complaining, they decided to move us. The school was like you can't live like that. So our director talked to the administrator and they found a new host family for us.

We had lunch, then class from 3 to 7. We immediately left to pick up our stuff and move at 7pm. The new house has cold water, yipee! We can also take a bath whenever and use electricity whenever. Yeah!! Seriously, you do not know how good we have it in the States. Although, it sort of makes me think I'm high maintainance. They probably just think I'm some stuck up American. Oh well!!!!

Tonight, we ate chicken and salad, it was delicious and don't you worry, my new host has promised me to show me how to cook tortilla de patata. I think every woman over here knows how to make it. Yeah!!

I've had a very long day and the Spanish class is rather intensive and difficult for me. I was even told by the instructor to not speak English. It made me think of the ESL kiddos back home. One of the professors gave us worksheets and the other professor talked to us a lot and explained lots to us. I like the second one better. Although, she did bring up American stereotypes and politics. Those are just such difficult topics to discuss amongst a class of adults with strong opinions.

Well I'm off to bed, ttyl :)