Poco a Poco

Almost a week has passed since I updated here!... although not too much has happened. Continuing with Spanish classes which take up the majority of the morning. After being a little disatisfied and very frustrated with the food in Spain (even nice looking places had some bad quality veggies??) we decided to really get into making our own little kitchen in our room. We've also finally found an AWESOME grocery store with a lot more to choose from (even peanut butter, but we're holding off for now). We've been making spinach salads, and of course we still stick to our bread and cheese staple, but at least we are getting some veggies in every day.

We've made a few more friends in our Spanish classes which is nice, but every time we go out we make friends almost instantly. Salamanca is filled with students (and right now most of them are foreigners as well). Although I haven't been chatting with too many Spaniards, I've been practicing my Spanish with plenty of other willing European and Brazilian students who are learning as well. It's definitely a very diverse city in terms of culture!

We're going to check out the library today so we can start checking out some books, and renting movies as well. We've also begun to look into the classes we will be taking at the University. As PEI students (basically the program we are a part of as international students ) we are able to choose from ANY of the 900+ classes offered. The guides online are huge so in some ways the diverse range of classes makes it more difficult to decide upon, however it's nice to know we have a lot to choose from.

Here are a few pictures that I took around Salamanca... It is a very old city, as the architecture and overall style shows. Most of the buildings are also all made of the same type of rock, which is of a golden color. They are most beautiful (like at the Plaza Mayor) at night when they are merely lit by lights. However, since they all look the same it makes it more likely for Emily and I to get lost more frequently!

We're getting into the swing of things though - adjusting ourselves more to the Spanish eating and sleeping schedules, and becoming even more familiar with the city (which isn't very big/hard to figure out).