La Luna

En la clase de la semana pasada, estábamos hablando sobre el medio ambiente. La clase votó que los Estados Unidos fue el peor país en la protección del medio ambiente. En Zaragoza, la gente está trabajando muy duro para conservar la energía. Todas las luces, los fregaderos y duchas públicas se apagará automáticamente para conservar el agua y la energía. El papel higiénico viene en hojas en lugar de rollos de lo que no uso mucho. Ellos usan secadores de manos en lugar de toallas de papel. Toda persona que recicla su papel en la escuela, y en apartamentos durante el día, todas las luces están apagadas y que usan el sol para iluminar las habitaciones.

En la clase de Inglés, estábamos hablando de los primeros hombres en la Luna. La profesora le dijo a mi clase de la que algunas personas creen que los americanos en la Luna fue todo un truco. Sé que algunas personas creen que nunca hemos llegado a la luna, pero todo el grupo pensó que era falso! Todos pensaban que los Estados Unidos le mintió al mundo. Yo no lo podía creer!

In class last week, we were talking about the environment. The class voted that the United States was the worst country in environmental protection. In Zaragoza, the people are working so hard to conserve energy. All of the lights, sinks and showers public turn off automatically to conserve water and energy. The toilet paper comes in sheets instead of rolls so you do not use too much! It's so cool. They use hand dryers instead of paper towels. Every person recycles their paper at school, and in apartments during the day, all of the lights are off and they use the sun to light the rooms.

Also, in English class, we were talking about the first men on the moon. The teacher told my class that some people believed that the americans on the moon was all a trick. I know that some people believe that we never made it to the moon, but the entire class thought that too! They all believed that the united states lied to the world. I could not believe it!

Other than that, the week was relatively normal and slightly boring. Today though, I am going to Silvia's pueblo! Every one in Zaragoza has a village where they travel to in the summer and on weekends. It is the small town where one of their parents were born. Silvia's pueblo is called Aragon and it is an hour away. India has to travel and hour and a half to hers. I am sort of nervous because they know EVERYONE who lives there. I will be giving out lots of kisses of the cheeks and awkward introductions. But it should be fun and I get to meet everyone at a party/gathering tonight. I have to go pack my stuff now to sleep-over at their house in Aragon.

Hopefully it will all go well!
p.s. If anyone wants to learn how to cry on command, just rub some blistex in your eye. I just did accidently and I have tears streaming down my face

My beautiful bedroom!

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!

Nuevas Palabras

Aquí están las nuevas palabras y frases que han aprendido en clase y en casa. Algunas de las palabras sólo se usan en España o en Zaragoza.

Que Majico! (how cute, adorable, little, sweet, charming)
Que Chulo! (that is so cool, awesome, impressive)
Yo voy a hacer mis deberes. (I am going to do my homework. No one says tarea here)
Vale (yeah okay, alright) - they say this A LOT
Sa Sa Sa Sa (yeah yeah not important, hush hush) - to get someone to stop talking
Hola? Que tal? (hello?! are you there? are you listening?) - when someone is being weird or not paying attention
Que Raro! (How weird, strange, ridiculous, out there, crazy, mental) 
Quieres Pelear? (Do you wanna fight?) 
Hombreeee... (whoa..., oh boy)
Ay Ba! (oh dang, shoot, oh!, of course)
Besicos (little kisses!) - used a lot in phone conversations and emails

Recreo / Comida y Biblioteca

Hoy, tengo dos cosas para decir sobre de esta lunes y martes. Voy a hablar sobre los recreos y el tiempo que maddie y yo estamos en la biblioteca. Cada dia Maddie y silvia van a casa para comer porque ellas suertes viven menos de un minuto del collegio! Pero para comida Claudia y yo quedamos en escuela para, pues para comer jajaja. Tenemos dos horas para comer.. me gusta mucho porque antes de comida tenemos cinco clases!!

Ayer comí con claudia y cinco chicos de nuestro grado, sergio, jordana, manzano, carlos y guillermo (Oye, sabes que en ingles guillermo es William! facto divertido jajaja). Para comida teniamos pasta, el pasta tiene carne... entonces yo tenia una pasta especial. El concepto de vegetarianismo se fascino todos los chicos y immedietamente pregunto si yo era una religion differente como, hindu o budista. Despues de comer fuimos afuera para hablar. Afuera hablamos sobre todo pero mucho del tiempo ellos preguntan a mi que es los estados unidos. ( son muy celosos que tenemos mas tiempo en el verano para vacaciones)Un chico muy gracioso se llama Manzano pregunta a mi si yo puede ensenarle el himno americano. Tambien manzano trato a cantar "I'm Yours" por Jason Mraz.

Hoy para comida... hacemos el mismo pero hace mucho fria afuera (estaba lloviendo) y entonces nosotros hablamos adentro.

La biblioteca es una lugar que Maddie y yo vamos cada dia cuando tenemos clases como, lengua o biologias ( clases muy aburidos y cuando no entendemos Nada!). Hacemos deberes por Sagrado Corazon en los estados unidos. La biblioteca es una pequena habitacion donde no se permite hablar. Hoy tengo un historia muy divertida sobre mi segunda visita a la biblioteca. Para clase de lengua yo voy a la biblioteca sin maddie. Y cuando estabo a punto de ir, un chico de mi clase, Alberto, pregunata me " Donde vas?" Y yo explico mi situacion. Y le preguntó si podía faltar a clase lenguaje tambien. Me reí de el y salí de clase. Pero cinco minutos mas tarde el entro la biblioteca y me sonrio. Mas tarde me aprende que se metió en problemas a propósito, sólo para que pudiera faltar a clase y ir a la biblioteca, como yo.

Today, I have two things to say about this Monday and Tuesday. I will talk about the breaks and the time that Maddie and I are in the library. Every day Maddie and Silvia walk home to eat because they live less than a minute from school! But for lunch Claudia and I stay in school, to eat. We have two hours to eat .. I like this long break a lot because we have five classe before lunch!

Yesterday I ate with claudia and five boys in our grade, Sergio, Jordana, Manzano, Carlos and Guillermo (Hey, you know that Guillermo is William English! funny fact of the day!). For lunch we had pasta, the pasta has meat ... so I had regular pasta. The concept of vegetarianism is fascinated by the spainards and they immedietly asked if I was a different as religion, like Hindu or Buddhist. After lunch we went outside to talk. Outside we talked about everything, but most of the time they ask me about the United States. (They are very jealous that we have more time in the summer for vacation)A very funny boy named Manzano asked me if I can teach the American anthem. Manzano also tried to sing "I'm Yours" by Jason Mraz to me.



The library is a place that Maddie and I go every day when we have classes such as, language and biology (very boring classes that we don't understand !). We do our homework for Sacred Heart in the United States. The library is a small room where talking is not allowed. Today I have a funny story about my second visit to the library. For language class I go to the library without maddie. And when I was about to go, a boy in my class, Alberto, asked me "Where you going?" And I told him how I was going to the library because I didn't like language class. He laughed and asked If he could come with me. I laughed and told him to have fun in language and left the classroom not thinking much more about it. I was studying in the library for less than five minutes when a smirking Alberto walked into the library sat at my table holding two notebooks. He purposefully was obnoxious and disruptive in class to the point that the teacher told him to go to the library. I couldn't help but to laugh at the determination he had to get out of language class . I just hope I haven't given him any ideas of what to do in the future. It is VEry very very late in Spain right now and I do have school tommorow so I will finnish my post right ( and going to bed) Now
- india

Watching 7 Almas (7 pounds)

El Pilar. Zaragoza's famous Cathedral.