Category Archives: fundación

In Closing

And just like that, it’s done! On Monday, I had my last two classes, grammar and literature. Afterwards, instead of studying like I probably should have, I went to Enebro with a bunch of people from class, and pretended like exams weren’t about to start on Tuesday. After a few hours, I had to go [...]

I’m Speaking in the Order of Spanish Words

The unintentional hilarity of the title courtesy of Kelly.
Not much to update about this week. I’m 3/4 of the way through my midterms, and they’ve gone swimmingly despite a total study time of no more than 30 minutes. That’s because they’re easy. Our Literature class, for instance, required that we choose two of seven questions, [...]

Conceptual Imprinting

As great as the internet may be, booking trips online with a shoddy internet connection has to be the most frustrating waste of time ever. I should be blogging way more often, but instead I’ve found myself more than once sitting on a computer in the computer lab for more than two hours without making [...]

Talking the Talk

Today is the third day of classes, and I’ve now had each class at least once. This’ll be a short update, because there really isn’t much to say about them–it’s school, after all.
On Mondays and Wednesdays, we have a grammar/writing class and a literature class. The grammar class is fantastic–for the first time, I feel [...]

Welcome to the Present

Thursday night into Friday, I slept like a log, but was forced awake around 10 for a mandatory orientation meeting. Argh. Too groggy and uninterested in formalities to listen to 30 minutes of lecturing in Spanish, but I suppose it was necessary. We got some important things, including insurance cards and a fully loaded bus [...]