So far

Well, it's been about three weeks since I got to Spain, by my reckoning, and the time has certainly flown by. Since I've been here, I've eaten at a lot of Spanish restaurants, become somewhat acquainted with the city, visited two world-famous museums, seen Picasso's masterpiece Guernica, participated in the Spanish night life, visited two of a multitude of ancient Spanish cities, read a lot, gone to a lot of classes, started working at two internships, and signed on for a video project and a magazine project apart from all of it.

Tomorrow morning, at about 6 AM, I'll be leaving for Barcelona with all 35 classmates. We'll spend all Friday, Saturday and Sunday there, seeing and learning about one of the world's most modern and vanguardist cities. It should be fun -- I'll be sure to come back with pictures.

Classes have just started getting demanding this week, and I'm enjoying them. My two favorite teachers are Paco, the art history teacher who holds nearly half of his classes in the Prado museum and who is funny, passionate and awfully knowledgeable about the subject, and Javier, who teaches the 20th century part of the Spain seminar. This guy is just downright brilliant.

So anyway, things are going well, I seem to have adjusted and acclimated without going through too much culture shock. I enjoy conversations with my Senora and my Spanish has gotten noticeably better.

That's about it. I feel like this semester is going to fly by.