Just another week in Spain

I'm currently taking a survey as to what I should do with my 10 day spring break in the beginning of April. It will be la Semana Santa (Holy Week) here in Spain, and everybody takes off for vacation during that time. Paris, Rome, Cinque Terre, Greece, Canary Islands...they're all possibilities. Its kind of stressing me out though, because I know I'm staying for all of May, and I'm going to be traveling so much then, I don't want to go overboard before May. No se, no se...please just tell me what to do, because I'm just being way too indicisive right now.

In other news, my two week "Intensivo" class ends tomorrow, and we will have our first test. However, it's a little difficult to study for a class that has basically been a 14-day continuous, casual conversation about the culture of Spain. I know we have learned some vocab words, and some phrases, but really? It's not the type of class where I feel like we have been preparing for a test.

Andrea and I are taking proactive measures against the greasy, fried food, olive oil induced comas we are about to enter-- our walking regime has begun. For the past three days, we have been really good about taking hour long walks during our siesta, after we eat lunch. However, my power walk is equivalent to Andrea's quick jog, so it makes conversation a little difficult when she's trying to keep up. Its also really great for seeing other parts of the city that we didn't even know exist. For example, today we walked in one direction we have never ventured to before, and we ended up finding a shopping center! A real, American-feeling, Wal-Mart-like shopping center! It was the most capitalistic, American-esque, material-loving place I have been since arriving in Spain. They just don't have stores like Target or Wal-Mart here. For example, on the way to this shopping center, called Carrefour, we passed a store that only sold yarn. And then we passed another store that only sold printer ink cartridges-- no printers or paper, just ink. Stores are SO specified, you have to run to about seven different stores when running errands.

This weekend, about 90% of our group is taking an optional excursion to Lisbon, Portugal. Andrea and I decided to stay in Salamanca, considering the forecast for Portugal is heavy rain for three days straight. And we are also looking much more forward to saving our money for our big spring break trip. So it will be nice to get some alone time this weekend, because we all spend so much time together as a group, it gets exhausting.

Well, back to the books.

In the meantime, entertain yourself here:
gotta love Chatham County Line