class. blah.

so we started classes this week, and overall its pretty meh. we have 5: grammar, latinamerican literature, literature of the 21st century, art history, and history of spain. the grammar teacher is awesome. hes hilarious and i really feel like we're going to improve from his class and actually have better grammar, but the other 4, not so much. they're kind of all similar, and pretty boring. the teachers are not nearly as engaging as the grammar teacher, and i find myself falling asleep in all of them. especially art..blah! super boring. and our schedule is pretty crazy as well. they split us up into 2 different groups, so we have slightly different schedules, but for the most part we have class 9am to 2pm monday through thursday, then 3 of those 4 days we have either an hour or 2 hour class in the evening. its so much class! im just super excited we only have 2 months of this.

so im feeling a little homesick. fall is my absolute favorite month, and i loooooove the smell of pumpkin candles burning in the house, going to the pumpkin farm with my family, making fall foods, seeing all the leaves change, etc. etc. etc. im actually pretty sad im missing all of it :( i just really love the feeling of fall and everything that comes with it. i wish i could come home for just a week or 2 to be able to do/see all of this!

lung update: i feel like its definitely getting better. my lungs are still full of phlegm which im sure is super attractive everytime i clear my lungs/throat in class. but im not coughing nearrrrly as much, so yay! and i was waking up every single night and coughing, but that hasnt happened for a few nights! so hopefully it'll go away really soon...its been about 3 and a half weeks already.

so last night was an adventure, and i really dont remember all of it, but id like to share what i do remember haha. we went to this house party and chatted with people for a couple hours, and we brought sangria. we had these little cups..they were alot bigger than those little cups you put in the bathroom, but alot smaller than solo cups..so if you can imagine that..and i had around 10 of those cups of sangria lol. its just so delicious i just kept drinking it! so we left and went to the chupiteria (a chupita is a shot) and met up with a few owuers, then went to this bar called gatsby. we didnt stay too long there and ann, rachel and i ended up walking over to this area of bars that id never been to before and it was pretty cool! i def want to go back there and check it out some more. but there were a ton of people in the street..it reminded me of portugal. and we came upon these guys who were all dressed up and had wigs/hats on. i really dont know what was going on, but i took this guy's hat and tried to run away with it but he was so persistent!! i tried several times and everytime he came after me. but then he pulled out this deck of cards and these 4 girls just seemed to appear there..i really have no idea where they came from..and he handed me this card with 7 swords on it and the girls were chanting "siete! siete! siete!" which is seven in spanish. it was all just so weird. so i took the card and he ran away lol. and then a little later we ran into them again and he told me if i brought the card back tomorrow he would give me his hat. so odd. then we came up to these 2 guys, one wearing 3D glasses. so ann took his glasses off and chatted with them for a bit..one of them had a ridiculous mullet, it was super gross. so after a bit she said bye and ran with the glasses, and so rachel and i ran also, but he followed us and got his glasses back! lame. but at least i got that sword card as a souvenir lol it also has blue fleur de lis on the other side! perf.