Leer

Leer leer y leer.

Actually, im complaining over nothing.

Its really not the fact that we have reading, its just the fact that we have to read at all. The stories are sorta annoying, but once u understand all the words, it isnt too bad...

We ended up buying the bus tickets today for Lago, Portugal this weekend

It was 34 E for a round trip and then the hotel will be like 17 E. Hopefully Papa will make us some bocadillos to help the cost of the food for the weekend. But Ill do my best to take some breathtaking pics, or at the very least steal them from Wells.

Yesterday wasnt too bad, we hung out by the Rio which was nice and calm, until my stupid clumsy ass dropped a glass off the table we were sitting at and broke it. Luckily they´re probly just used to dumb gringos doing shit like that all the time.

Tengo que hacer una lista corta de todos mis mishaps...en serio

I´ve almost died at least 10 times while misunderstanding the walk signs and the beeping that goes along when its almost done for crossing. It sounds like a bird chriping and soemtimes the man in green starts fucking sprinting. Its bpretty cool I gotta take a video of it so i dont forget how it is.

Anyway the lista:

1. Ran into a pole (andre was talking with a friend behind me and called my name as we were walkin one direction, so I turned around to say what and....BAM!)
2. Spilled water at dinnertable...not just a little, like a full glass. what a fucking ´gaffe´...thats the spanish word for klutz, says papa
3. Spilled fanta limon at dinnertable....but luckily papa was able to use his fav phrase, ´no pasa nada, no pasa nada´ and then recount a story abotu when he went to the piscina with mama and her friend and they were both wearing black swimsuits and papa was under the water and pinched mama´s ass until he realized it wasnt mama....funny shit right?
4. Almost slipped and broke my head open right outside the isa building with tiphanie and missel...that dirt road will probably kill me soon enough
5. When on a fake boat at Huelva, I almost fell twice on these metals things on the ground, and it was bad because the the boat was on a slope, so i literally would have fallen all the way down the damn thing, titanic style....

i know there are more but class is in 6 minutes and i still havent finished all the way(not that i will) but thats all i got now.

peace and much love to ya!

Lunes

Nothing much to say, we got new friends, though. Parita and the rest of the 60 new ISA students got here today, so me and Andre are a bit scared of our scarce internet access, but hopefully it will work out. We just had a pretty sweet bocadillo(casi literally)...it was of some sort of dulce type apple dura nonsense and cheese. u could call it the pb and j or something of españa. so we´ve met a few of the kids from the general isa group and bunch are from uf and texas and other shit, we´ll be able to impart whatever info we actually know (which is actually nothing)...

now we have to read for our class as usual and we havent done it so im finna cut it corto. ciao a todos.

Post written yesterday but had no internet....

Today we went to the beach. Yeah, the playa…it wasn’t too bad. I got to work on my tan, which I definitely needed with all the sun in Sevilla, for sure…and we walked a good amount, saw some topless women, at last count, I think it was 5, and visited juan ramon jimenez’ house, which was fucking awesome…..or actually, not really. Mario told me some dirty jokes(hes one of our ISA directors; good guy) and the hr long ride was pretty sweet. What else have we missed out on commenting on so far….there was a smoking club…let me tell you, pretty crazy experience. It was like a mix of a faux clockwork orange+Moulin rouge type shit. Actually, it wasn’t that crazy, but it was definitely weird since we sorta signed our lives away, endured watered down cruzcampo(like the sam adams(sorta?) of espana) and horrible hord oeuvres(I don’t know how to spell that) and a cheesy magic show. Basically, it’s a smoking club that offers young people an easy way to get exposed to madd propaganda from cig companies. It was called L Screw and I highly recommend you don’t go. There was free wi-fi, some video games and other shit, but not exactly that great. The playa today was pretty sweet, we just sorta walked towards these rocks we wanted to climb, but ended up not reaching cuz it was so damn far. We also saw something before that but ive seriously forgotten what it was…tonight we’re finna have our first real Saturday night in sevilla, so it ought to be good…hopefully. We got that don simon(cheap boxed wine or sangria) and other goodies. Also, tonight is a huge game for Sevilla FC (Futbol Club) and a whole bunch of people are already going out for the game to bars and shit. I typed this in my room at like 8:45, and I can hear them cheering outside.. Hopefully we can catch some of it on tv at home. I’m really pulling for La Coruna, the opposite team because I’m a “betis fan”, the rival team. I only think I’m a betis fan cuz theyre like madd horrible and I usually go for the underdogs, even though they’ve got no chance in doing well this season. In fact, they may bajar and fall to the second level(like a death blow)

Anyway, that’s what I got for now, Papa is finna make us lasagna(SWEET) and Leandro’s here, I’ll go play with him.

Ciao, bitches.

Ps Leandro makes Andre and I tios---for real.



Just to add on to this post, last night was pretty cool--we ended up going to this disco called la catedral thru some american girls we met at plaza salvador(which I like a lot better than Nueva) and we drank and sang with this pigeon friend(which was pretty fucking scary, actually) and then to this club, but not before we met a fake marilyn monroe who was getting married and having her bachelorette party...andre and i just attract 'em, I guess.. Anyway, I just woke up from a ridiculous 5 or 6 hr nap and I'm trying to figure out what I should do(read, obviously). So ciao for real.

Tío

Well,

I´m pretty sure i overuse a lot of words like tio and vale and tia but for some reason i cant stop.

anyway, its about 330 and we got class at 4 until 6. still not used to the keyboard, y por eso no hay mucha punctuacion o cosas asi. la clase no es malo, but its a bit long, especially when ur cranky from not getting ur nap, knaamean?

we had our first como assignment de clase hoy, leer el matadero y escribir algo sobre lo. no fue tan horrible, pero, es casi que no tenemos mucho tiempo en el dia, excepto cuando estamos messing around, like usual. im glad im rooming with andre, even if i said it before, its almost perfect, even though hes a chupapinga asshole a lot.....just kidding by the way. we joke around a lot with each other and its really uncanny how we can sing almost anything sin problema.

anyway, im getting used to our schedule, our bocadillos becuase walking round trip 1 hr home is casi insane for lunch, even though im gonna miss good lunch and probly we wont see leandro much or my hermano, but no se, really.

last night fue awesome, we went to a bar for allisons bday but before nos tomamos at plaza nueva and wells and i and rachel had a good time there and then chupitos at brown suga. we met this other group from ttu who were going on like with their chant of RAIDER POWER or some shit, so i started the gator chomp but didnt get much backup, which sorta sucked. anyway, we talked to them a bit and waxed poetic about our football teams an thatwas about it.

i was good all night until that awful walk home. literally about 30 or 35 minutes. and the entire time i complained to andre who had to bear me the entire walk home. when i got home, i felt so bad, but i decided to run to the kitchen and get as much food as i could to eat in the room. i got a small yogurt,some kind of pastry and crackers....and before i knew it, we had to wake up. it was 945 and we left sin shower to class this mornign. luyckily today was pretty harmless and i felt fine.
now its getting nice and hot and i would love a siesta, but class beckons. entonce, hasta luego, chavales y tias.

El primer día (de clases)

Rapidamente, voy a hablar de ayer.

We had fun, a welcome dinner with tapas, but still, nothing compares to my mama and papa´s food.

we ran home thinking we were late for lunch---macarrones con queso y carne...good stuff, just like baked ziti. and when we got home, leandro, nuestro nieto was home, but our parents were like chill, yall.

anyway, we toured la giralda y la catedral---3rd biggest in spain, what what...and had the dinner last night

todays first day of classes, whichs tarts in exactly 8 mins so i gotta cut it short, and hope u guys are all doing well. love u and miss u, tios.

ciao


¡joder!

Que Guay

Well chicos, I know it´s been a while, mostly because I haven´t gotten a chance to get a good shot at consistent internet. However, now I do...I can try to remember the whirlwind of the past few days, si es posible.

Last I wrote, I was in Madrid...since then, we´ve visited El Escorial and Toledo and even stopped in Castilla-La Mancha to take a few pictures with windmills....hasta ahora fue un buen viaje.

And finally, yesterday we got to Sevilla, which is where we are now. First, the family: Maria Angeles, nuestra nueva mama, is very funny and sweet. Our papa, Jose Luis is also very nice. He made us a great ´`sopa de esperago´´. If u can´t understand me, thats okay, because i still cant figure out the keyboards in Spain. So many differnet accent signs and all, and estoy confundido muchas veces. Also, my other family members are a new hermana, Ana Carolina...but she goes by just Ana. She is a world class athlete, sorta...she does track and field and shot put, or something like that.

Ok im at UIMP right now, nuestra escuela en sevilla and im doing as much as i can since i havent had internet in a long ass time.

so the gist is we have now been acquainted with where the escuela is...we took the bus to san sebastian in sevilla and then walked over to plaza nueva where we met the group.

for dinner last night, we had sopa de asperago which i already told u about, tortilla de patata, salad of lettuce, pan, etc etc. and for dessert, it was an orange and yogurt. my parents would be pissed with me right now because at home, i would never eat orange and yogurt if they gave it to me at dinner. so they would def be pissed....oh well, i guess.

this morning, it was cereal and other things, but i stuck with spanish corn flakes.

and then the bus and walk to plaza nueva to meet eveyrone.

at 1 today which is 7 for all u american slackers, were gonna check out the catedral and later tonight is the dinner for everyone in the program.

well the computers set to turn off in 30 mins exactamente, and i dont know how long ive been on, so im gonna publish this post directamente so as to not lose anything.

ciao, amigos, and hope ur enjoying what little i put up.

pictures will come, te lo prometo, calmate.

¡joder, tios!

net cafe y las primeras dias

flight was crazy long, not much sleep. now at a net cafe with jeremy and andre.

just wanted to email my parents and check jose´s email. hopefully we can meet up with him tonight but i dont really know. the rest of the group has peaced out and we´re trying to walk únos kilometros y pico the way back to el hotel.

checkout´s tomorrow at 930 and mario dijo que isa no es responsable si we don´t make it there in time.

probly gonna get back to the hotel, quizas eat and then una siesta.

ive got 2 minutes left to write but can´t really think of anything important. museo del prado and palacio real were today´s sights, but hopefully we can see la reina sofia tambien.
no calling card or sim yet so can´t call home as of yet. I will hopefully later today.

ciao para ahora.