So today has been quite an exciting day--even though I really didn't do anything spectacular. We went to school this morning and had one class again today. Even class was pretty uneventful since one group had a presentation today and they took up 50 minutes of our 75 minute class. So really we only had a 15 minute class which was pretty awesome.
After class I came home and worked on my homework; finished my paper that's due tomorrow and did my reading for class tomorrow. By the time I finished all of that it was time for lunch. We had lentils - which I had never had before - that were absolutely fantastic! For dessert we had a piece of melon. For those of you (ehhhm, DAD) who are going to ask what kind of melon, it's kind of hard to describe. The Spaniards simply call it melon although it looks and taste like a cross between a honeydew and a cantaloupe. After lunch, I looked up a couple of possible classes for me to take. We have to meet with "advisors" next week to discuss what we plan on taking. It is kind of difficult to decide on classes because their system is MUCH MUCH MUCH less organized than it is back in the US. The do not have ANY type of central registration system, much less a central system for you to look at class schedules and descriptions. So you have to go to each departments website and find the link for the descriptions/syllabi AND the link for the schedules of the classes. Not to mention the fact that they don't have a central campus but the department buildings are spread all over the city. For instance, the Economics building is probably a 15 minute walk from my apartment while the History/Geography/Language building is more like a 40 minute walk from my apartment. So I'm planning to arrange my classes so that they are all from the same department/in the same building so I don't have to trek around Sevilla every day. :)
Tiffany and I met Allegra at a small café near our school tonight. They have a delicious bakery and we all got something from there as well as a coffee. I had a pastry with coconut on it and some kind of cream filling - although I couldn't really decide what kind of cream it was. It was definitely delicious though! I also had an amazing iced coffee! We were meeting to work on our presentation for Monday, but honestly we just talked about classes and how to plan our schedule as well as about trips that we would like to take this semester. We have already booked a trip to Morocco for October! I am extremely excited about it! We also plan to go to Barcelona for a weekend and to Italy sometime in December when we have 3 days straight off from school!
For dinner tonight we had green beans and potatoes cooked with cheese and olive oil. Even though we know she did not use any, it tasted like it was made with butter. It was delicious. We also had carrots as well as some onion for me and cucumber for Tiffany. It's so cute because our senora asked us what vegetables we like the other day and I told her onions and Tiffany told her cucumbers. And she remembered and had our favorites on our plates for us. On the first day she asked us what we liked to drink with breakfast and I told her juice. She said she didn't have any so I had milk for the first several days. I walked into the kitchen this morning and she had juice for me! It was SO sweet of her! It was peach juice, which I have never had, but was nonetheless amazing!!
So the title of this blog. Tiffany and I went in the bathroom today only to discover that we have pink toilet paper now. I have never in my life seen such. It's kind of cute though! Haha. For dessert tonight we had a banana. Well, it looked like a banana and it kind of tasted like a banana. But when we started to peel it we found out that the peeling was incredibly thick and that it was almost like shucking corn. The outer part of the banana tasted the same, however the center of it was almost crunchy and felt more like eating an apple or a pear. It was strange, but good nonetheless. And pictures of police officers. When we were in the cafe/bakery/restaurant, two police officers came in. We hadn't really seen any police officers thus far, so Tiffany wanted to take a picture of them - I mean it was pretty cliche for them to be ordering coffee. Haha. And then, the CUTEST, most ADORABLE little toddler came in the bakery/cafe with his dad. He had on these cute little polka dotted shorts. He was just precious. He was probably around 4 years old, but I have never seen such a well behaved kid. He sat straight up in his chair (which made me feel horribly American in the way I was sitting in mine) and drank his orange juice like quite an adult. He even held his fork in a very proper manner. It was absolutely astonishing. He was so quite and just looking around and observing everything going on around him. :)
I'm going to spend the rest of the night getting some law school stuff done as well as organizing some ideas for classes. Tomorrow will be quite a busy day since we have class from 9:30-12:15 and then a "test" at 6:30 and class again from 7:00-8:15. At least I have found my new favorite bakery/cafe/meeting place/homework spot. :)
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