School Week!

Well a summary of the week...

On Monday, Silvia and I were exhausted, But India and I got to leave some of the boring classes to go to the library to do homework. We went to the gym and some certain Spaniards who shall remain nameless thought it would be fun to do a step class. FALSE. Not a good idea. An hour of aimless spinning, dancing and walking was more than I could handle.

On Tuesday, I don't really remember much happening, but I find it necessary to add that on Tuesday, and the days following, India and I decided to start speaking in Spanish when we are together so that we can get better. Sometimes we manage a 5 minute conversation, but we are so in the habit of being able to talk about whatever we want because we know no one will understand us in English. We're working on it though.

Wednesday was a relatively good day. School started an hour later and ended three hours earlier... a major plus. It was also gym day. Silvia and I had gym class first thing in the morning. It was nice outside, which was a bad thing because that meant that we would be running in the park. We wore our gym clothes to school and started out by playing futbol. Nearly every boy in my class aspires to be a famous futbol player, but I have never seen anyone play as well as Guillermo, Sergio and Manzano. They were incredible. In the first 5 minutes, we played "knock out," and tried to kick eachother's soccer balls out of the court. The creepy gym teacher targeted me because he has something against girls being relatively adequate at exercise related activities. Luckily I got away in time to run full on into some random kid from my class. We both fell onto the ground and experienced quite a bit of mockery afterwards. But thanks to my general ability to dribble and keep the ball close to my feet, I was deemed a futbol star by the pros of my class.

Unfortunately, after futbol came the running. We walked out to the park next to the school in the 40 degree weather. Now saying that running is not my forte is an understatement, but I was determined to keep up with the slightly big-headed futbol players of my class. Along with that, the gym teacher told me that I wasn't strong or good enough to run with the other guys, so I had to prove him wrong. So I left Silvia and her friends to run with Manzano, Sergio, Guillermo, Marino, Carlos and some other guys. It is a good thing I have been going to the gym, because I could have easily died. We ran for 20 minutes around the park and I stayed with the group of guys for the whole time!! I was told multiple times as I passed the gym teacher that I needed to slow down because I was a girl and I shouldn't run so fast... so it was a huge motivation! I sprinted for a full 20 minutes just to keep up. I am so sore today, but it was totally worth it!

Today at colegio we had so many boring classes in a row. En la clase de Ingles, Rosa Marie, my teacher, assigned me homework where I have to translate sentences from Spanish to English. It would be easy except for the fact that she tells me I don't use proper English. hmmmm.

Well tomorrow is another half day! I'm bringing my camera to take pictures of all my friends and classmates! And after school we are going to the mall to go shopping! I can't wait. Oh and after that we go to the gym to take a kickboxing class! I will let you know how it goes.

Well I'm Skyping with my lovely family back at home now and it sounds like Connecticut is the same old Connecticut! We saw the guy from Colorado at the gym again today and his ungreased hair and unpierced face makes me miss home!

BESICOS!