So I was definitely going to actually keep a blog, but then I kept getting sidetracked by how awesome Spain is, but now I'm back. I'm working on a longer post about Spanish Culture and all that but for now, here's a run down of how my days look here in Granada.
An average Thursday (because Thursdays are our Fridays and they're also the best days):
7:00 - Alarm goes off the first time. Snooze multiple times.
7:40 - Get up and get dressed, then go out to the kitchen for breakfast, which is always toast with butter and jam, and nesquik. Sometimes our host mom also brings home pastries and gives them to us for breakfast.
8:05ish - Leave for class. It's about a fifteen to twenty minute walk to the University of Granada's Centro de Lenguas Modernas, where all of our classes are.
8:30 - Spanish Grammar class. Not always the most fun, but still could be worse. Learning all about verb tenses.
10:20 - Grammar class ends and we get a ten minute pausa before History of Spanish Art starts at 10:30. That's definitely the best class offered at CLM. The professor is hilarious and manages to make the nuances of Neolithic art seem interesting.
12:30 - Classes are done, time to head home for lunch. Mama is the greatest cook in the world, and lunch is always the biggest meal of the day. Usually they are multiple courses, starting with soup, and then a maintenance course, and then some fruit or yogurt.
1:30 - Siesta time. The whole city shuts down in the afternoon for the siesta. Even if you don't take the traditional afternoon nap, it's a time to rest, and for a lot of Spaniards it's time to sit down with friends and family for a coffee or tea and some pastries. After a siesta, or at least a nice bit of down time, it's time to do some homework or meet up with friends. Really, this is just a big block of free time until dinner.
8:30 - The best tv show in the world: Boom! It's a completely amazing game show where contestants have to answer questions through a process of elimination by cutting the wires on a giant fake bomb. However, if they cut the wires that corresponds to the right answer, the bomb "explodes" and sprays them in the face with colored foam. I'm obsessed.
9:00 - Dinner time! Usually we watch the news with our host parents while we eat. Dinner is usually a much smaller meal than lunch, but it's also follows by fruit and yogurt, and sometimes also pastries or flan. God I love Flan.
10:15 - Time to meet the crew at our usual stomping ground, a Mexican tapas bar near the CLM. In addition to fabulous tapas, they have fantastic two for five euro mojitos. After a couple rounds of mojitos and tapas, we head over to Oscar Wilde for Thursday night karaoke.
2:30ish - Head home from Oscar Wilde and fall into bed, ready to kick off our usual three day weekend by sleeping in. (especially since sometimes Mama brings home churros for breakfast on Saturdays and downing that much fried dough takes all the energy you can get)
