It was a long weekend of tours and cathedrals, and we were happy to finally arrive back to Salamanca on Sunday. We were up early Monday morning (8 am) though to take the placement exam, so still groggy we managed to get up and make our way to the center to meet the group. It's still dark that early in the morning, and the sprinklings of rain didn't help us to wake up any more. The test only took about a half hour and then Emily and I decided to skip the tour of the city and go take an early 3 hour siesta :)
We are staying at a Residencia here (kind of like a dorm) until February 1st when we will move into our apartment!! We put down a deposit today on an apartment, only 1 street from the plaza mayor -- so hopefully we won't get lost anymore! We're very excited to move in, start decorating our rooms and getting real groceries (not just pan and cheese everyday) and do some cooking. It's a pretty big apartment with 6 bedrooms (3 Spaniards, 1 Italian and us), a nice kitchen, 2 balconies, and a living room. The landlord is a woman who lives an apartment away and was super nice and is even going to give us some towels and linens which saves us some time, stress and money.
Classes are Monday - Friday from 9am-2pm. Emily and I are in 3 out of the 4 classes. I have 2 hours of grammer, 1 hour of conversation, 1 hour of Spanish culture, and the last hour is a writing class. Hopefully by the end of the month & these classes we will be ready for the real work to begin in the University.
We try to speak only Spanish, but definitely doesn't work all of the time. My accent needs lots of work here and still trying to get used to new phrases and grammer, but all in all things are good and now that we've got an apartment secured, one less thing to worry about.
my program: integrated with spaniards
la Plaza Mayor is the center of the city
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