I have officially registered for my classes for this semester. My schedule is completely different and I am not taking and political science classes mainly because I took 4 last semester and a break from that department was greatly needed!! I ended up taking a phraseology class, translations, language of music, and a business class. Completely random I know but the phraseology and translation class help a ton with being able to communicate and it is really helping my vocabulary as well. When you translate from one language to another you cannot translate word for word or literally because other languages don't express things the same way as your native language. For example, the English idiom "The early bird gets the worm" is not the same in Spanish, it is said "A quien madruga, Dios le ayuda" which translates to "whoever gets up early God helps".This class is really going to help me be able to write and of course translate more effectively.
Other than school I have not really done much of anything else because I have been adjusting to my new schedule and there have been a TON of "Despedidas" aka going away parties. So I have been saying goodbye to a lot of my friend that only stayed the first semester. It is really sad and got me thinking how thankful I am that I get to stay here for a whole year! It is amazing how much my attitude has changed since the first month that I arrived. In the beginning I was really unsure of being here for that long and I was tempted to change my stay to only a semester, but then I soon began to have a ton of fun and am so glad that I sticked it out =D
Well I was supposed to go to India with my mom and a friend of mine here the first week of March but apparently you have to have a visa just to enter the country for any amount of days. I was extremely bummed not to be able to go because I really wanted to see my mom and India would have been amazingly beautiful!! Plus staying in 5 star resorts right on the beach would have been heavenly!! Oh well, this just means that I will have to come back to this side of the world and continue my travel adventures:)
As for my upcoming trips, I will be in Paris, France March 10th-15th. I am so excited for that trip! I cannot wait to see the Eiffel Tower and all of the other museums, and because i'm a student I get free access to most of the museums with my student ID which is pretty sweet.
Other trips in March are going to include "Fallas de Valencia" which is a trip organized by my school to Valencia for only €19 which is extremely cheap considering a trip to Valencia by bus is €30! Oh and Valencia is in Spain just north of Murcia, my city. I will also be going to visit my friend Maggie in Latvia the last week in March and into the first couple days in April! It's her 21st birthday and I cannot wait to celebrate that with her American style in Latvia!!!
I am so excited for all my upcoming trips:) Oh another thing that is going on in Spain right now is there are a ton of carnivals. Now, these carnivals are not like back home where there are portable rides, funnel cakes, and beer gardens. These carnivals are huge parades and groups of people in costumes, almost like Halloween, and everybody is suuuuuuuper drunk. This past weekend was the start of all these carnivals and it was really interesting to see these different groups of people dressed in different costumes. I saw a group of SIMS, babies, pirates, zombies, and hippies.
Next post will be much more exciting and will include pictures of Paris =D
Besos!!
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