Spain Day 5!

This morning Lara and I went shopping (for souvenirs and gifts and because everything is cheaper here) and met Oma & Opa for lunch with Dominic. I'm the only one in our group that knows more than two words in Spanish (besides my aunt, but she wasn't around) so I had the privilege of ordering our food... Which was neat. It's an awesome feeling of accomplishment when you successfully communicate with someone in another language. Also, I had pineapple juice because it sounded awesome. It was most awesome. 

Then Lara & I went and got ice cream. Mine was snickers flavored! :)

We walked back up to the hotel and changed into our swim stuff to hang out by the pool. And that's all we did all afternoon. :)

We had dinner at the hotel, and then went to a little outcrop to watch the sunset. Lara and I took some really neat pictures. 

We leave tomorrow! I want to stay... This has been such a fun vacation, I really hope to come back to Spain again someday!

Friday! :)

Today half of our Spanish class was gone, so we didn't have to do as much work as we normally do. Yay!

I'm so happy it's Friday and the weekend is ahead:)

Schoolio

We actually have snow! Yay! And today both the Biology and The Spanish teacher were gone, so we had a bunch of free time:) Tomorrow's a half day again too... Yay less school time!

(The view from our classroom)

Friday! Week something

Today I got to leave Spanish class an hour early so we had enough time to rehearse in choir for three hours with the theater people that we'll be performing with:) It was fun, and my voice basically died. Basically it was a beautiful day, and I got to eat chocolate. Woohoo for weekends and sleeping! 

Three Kings Day

Today is Three Kings Day, so there were a few people selling little cakes that have a little plastic king in them. If you find the king in your piece then you're the king/queen for the day. A few of the girls in my class decided to buy one together and I got the king! So I got to wear the cardboard crown for the rest of the day. :)

I also finally managed to understand some stuff in Spanish after my friend explained it to me, which was nice.

I find it hilarious that this morning so many people were bundled up with scarves and hats and leg warmers and everyone was complaining about the weather when I found it quite pleasant. I didn't have a hat or anything. In my opinion it's basically springtime here. The grass is green and there are flowers blooming. It was gorgeously warm on the way back from school, and I happened to be on the same train as my grandma.

Friday! Week 12!

Today was a good day:)

We took a Spanish test and I finished it this time... (Finished filling in all the answers) as opposed to last time where I didn't have enough time...

Then I came home and did homework. But then Kayli snap chatted me and I had to pause the homework to do this:

Yay for the weekend!

Yeah, my Spanish teacher is cool

Today was a normal day, except that my Spanish teacher was a little weirder than he normally is. The bell rings, he comes in, hands out an assignment, tells everyone that a kid in my class named Lázaro is in charge, and walks out. So we definitely got a lot done that period... 

I'm so excited for tomorrow! Yippee for Sweet Sixteen!!! Thanks to a bunch of people who have already wished me a happy birthday<3

Friday! Week 9!

Today we had one period of Spanish that got cancelled. It was nice:)

There was a hot air balloon really close to the bus station and I tried to take a picture of of it because it was yellow with a black smiley face drawn on it which was really cute. 

I had 5 minutes at home after school before I had to leave again...  to a party at one of the kids in my class's house. It was fun and I'm super tired cause I got home late. Have you ever had roasted bananas and chocolate? It's really good. :)

(You slice open the banana and put chocolate inside, then wrap the banana in tin foil and put it in ashes and then when the chocolate melts you take it out.)

Back to school

Today Geography was cancelled, so I got to go to school an hour later, which was awesome, because yesterday I couldn't sleep until late and the night before that I was on the plane, so I was very tired.

I went out for lunch with a bunch of other girls in my class, which was fun...

And we had a substitute from Peru in Spanish, and she gave a presentation and gave us candy made from corn. It was purple and really weird and yummy.

Update: I went and fixed the New York posts because the pictures weren't publishing with those posts. So go check them out if you haven't already and if you have go look at the pretty picturessss!

I can speak Spanish?

This weekend I basically just did homework and talked to friends. I did make some gorgeous little avatars for my family because I was bored... Voila.

Also one of me because yay

There was also a gorgeous sunset on Sunday evening, I couldn't reach my phone quickly enough to take a good picture so here's an ok picture. 

Today was another interesting day at school... In Spanish we had to memorize a paragraph and then present it to the class as a way of getting familiar with the pronunciation and such of he language. I did my thing and (mostly) memorized it, and a girl came up to me after class and was like "omg have you had Spanish before ur really good at speaking like super fast omg like wow" and I was confused because I've never taken Spanish....? So anyways, that was fun.

After school today I had voice lessons and as I was walking up to the music building a little (12/13 years old?) student decided to pass me all swaggy-like walking that weird way some guys do when their pants don't fit right I don't know... And I almost literally laughed out loud at him because he had the saggy pants, the weird suspenders as a fashion statement, a hat on backwards with Mickey hands rolling a joint, and the earbuds blasting rock music. So I decided to be a weirdo and take a picture. It was hilarious. (I'm not a stalker, I promise).

I had a little bit of time before my train came after my voice lesson so I got to read some German and eat cookies!!! (The cookie is a mini version of something called a "Spitzbueb" which means something along the lines of boy-with-attitude literally translated)

Also, I have found this app called Duolingo and it basically reviews/teaches you another language in 5-20 minutes a day (you pick your "goal"). It's really cool, and I've been using it for a few days.

First day of school!

Well I survived my first day! (Yay!) 

I had to get up at 6:15 am to catch the train at 7:15 with my cousin and her friends. We got to the school around 7:30, when I promptly got completely confused and had to go to the office to ask where my first class was... So that was fun. 

Something that I noticed right away was that not a single soul talked or whispered or giggled when the teacher was talking (at least at the beginning of the day), and that the teacher was strict. Well, not exactly "strict", but he meant business. 

I technically had German first, but we introduced ourselves and figured out who say where and what was expected of us and so on. Then we went to Geography, which sounds super interesting. It's not really just naming countries from what I can tell, it's more learning about different countries and things like that but we'll see. Then we went to French. That was a wild ride. I understood about two words because I have 1 year of French whereas the rest of my classmates have 4 and the teacher talked a million miles per hour (or at least seemed to). After class I talked to her and she said she'd give me a different book so I can still learn stuff this year-yay! Then we had Physics. I feel like Physics is going to be one of my favorite classes, just because already on the first day we watched a really fascinating short video on comets. Plus the teacher seemed really easygoing. Then we had a lunch break-an entire hour. It was so nice to be able to walk down to the supermarket, buy food, and sit and eat and talk instead of just eating and running to the next class. After lunch, we had Spanish, which I think will also be awesome, because everyone is starting with zero Spanish experience, so I fit right in.  The teacher was very humorous. Lastly, we had "Geschichte" (which literally translated means "stories", so I was confused what it even was) which is History. It was ok. 

After school I had voice lessons. Of course I forgot the name of the teacher once I walked into the music building so I couldn't find her room for a while. Then I finally figured out where I was supposed to be. She said hello to me and then had me sing bent over, with my mouth nearly closed, and not breathing in before singing for the entire half hour.

After that, I wandered down to the tram station and hopped on a tram going back home. Or so I thought. See, to get back home the quickest and most logical way, I would take a tram and then a train. However, I took the tram on the other side of the street, meaning it went in the opposite direction. I was blissfully unaware until about 3 stops later when my stop wasn't showing up on the board. Thankfully, all roads/trams/buses lead to the Hauptbahnhof (main train station in Zurich), so I just took a slightly more roundabout way home. 

Altogether, I think it was a pretty fantastic first day, and I'm super excited for the rest of the year!