all eyes on me

Thursday night, a bunch of us went out to Momo...thought we were going to meet up with the Arabs since they were leaving this weekend but they never did end of coming around midnight. So I was the first one back since i had my internship Friday morn at the crack of dawn.

Friday: internship today...teddy was a no show...yikes! apparently it's a big deal. i had a hard time stayin awake whoops! not that that's any different from any other typical day tho.  during the last class of the day, Marisa (the math professor whom i follow to every class) tells her students to go talk to me since they had free time before the assembly thing.  AY DIOS MIOS...ALL EYES ON KELLY!!! Marisa had to specify to speak only spanish...no english because they love practicing English haha. it was craziness! i couldn't see past any of them.  all their elbows were on the desk, with their hands holding their chins up, ready to listen. they talked fast but luckily one of the girl got it and kept reminding her classmates to slow down cuz i needed it haha...didn't talk about much but it was fun : )

round 2 de mi empresa/práctica

so far so good. the economy class was aight. i couldn't tell if it was in gallego or not this time tho. probs gallego cuz i didn't understand much. if i don't understand something, it's probs in gallego. the next 2 math classes had exams so i whipped out my grammar book that i had brought with but it still doesn't compare to my poor lonely notes at home which are so wonderfully organized and simple, but while i wait for them to be scanned this will do. i also touched up in some words to extend my vocab some and then read yet another page of the book we have to read. page 12 of 40 which has to be complete by the end of next week. not too shabby if i may say myself. ok well page 12 is really the only 2nd page with words on it so i have quite some bit to go. i'm trying to figure out the best way to go about reading it. i've been going thru page by page underlining words a don't know and after finishing the page, going back and looking those words up. which has proven to have been successful for knowing the words cuz Celina's mom used the word "gama" i knew knew exactly what it was w/o explanation...yay me haha. not hard i guess cuz like a gama ray, a range of colors, or a shade. yeah well, i was proud of myself : P

at the end of the day there was a speaker. did i understand him? well he with más despacio, so no not a word. jk. i understood some stuff and then he threw some english out here and there. he was talking about nomos something or another and then i understood more about what he was saying about the USA and how some people have "perfect pitch" and are able to hear something and instantaneously know the pitch. pretty cool huh. but that's about all i understood cuz then i started dozen off into my own little world. which is why i'm keeping this short and about to take una siesta : )

el primero día de mi empresa

WOW. so i walked in and was greeted by the door person (idk what you call them...its wasn't a secretary i don't think so idk) i was talking with her for a bit and then the principal walks in thank god (aka Alice's mom) and she correctly informed the greeter person what it is exactly i'm doing at the school. Then i was greeted by an English professor who started talking in English to me. It took me awhile to answer her back cuz i was in Spanish mode and i was caught off guard with the English haha. the first class was la economia en gallego so i didn't understand a word. but it was fun cuz we walked over to el mercado tradicional. i'm gonna have to get back over there and take pics cuz it was SO cool. like outta the movies. there were flowers, meat, fish (some of which were still alive. i think it was shrimp pero yo no se). haha at one point i was just staring at the leg/hooves of one of the animals (meat that was skinned and ready to buy) and la profesora (se llama Marisa...she's pretty cool) was commenting on my reactions the whole time haha. all the other classes of the day were math. level 2 & 3. 2 was in castellano so i understood some...as in i learned/picked up how to say a few mathematical terms in espanol.  the boys were adorable haha. everyone wanted to practice saying hi to me in English. one of the boys in the last class that i had met the other day when i was being showed around said hi to me in english and was super excited (adorable) had to stand the rest of the class lol

don't be crampin my style

OK. While I'm here studying in Spain I have an internship at the high school with one of the profesoras de matemáticas.  Let me give you a visual here. First off, I'm a huge fan of the old parts of town so this just makes it even better. This school is SO cool...it's older than the city of Santiago de Compostela!!!! (...right up my alley...pictures yet to come!) The building is huge. There's about 8,000-10,000 students from little kiddies to high schoolers. It's SO Hogwarts style...it's awesome! I'm going to get lost. Anywho. So Gene (whom as of today I know we're going to become best friends) walked us over to the school to meet with our professors. I was SO relieved that the 3 of us (me, Teddy, & Alice) with Gene sat down with our professors to arrange schedules cuz knowing me I would be very lost and not be following what was happening. So after sorting out the horas and whatnot (cuz we need 100 hrs of practica and 85 working, 15 of meeting with one of my professors) hrs of service (50 hrs...no one is happy about it...that NO ONE told us about!!!), we each split up and went with our professor to learn more about what we would be doing for the semester with our internship. We walked and talked around the whole maze of a school and she assured me she would  pick me up at the entrance, gracias a Dios! First she showed me la clase de economia that I would be observing in for the first hour very Friday (so I can fit all these hours in). You continued to her classroom and she showed me how they teach some of there classes, por ejemplo, math class is taugh in "gallego" aka the other language of Spain. She asked if I would be able to explain how to do this math and yeah I could, but I told her I don't know mathematical terms in Spanish, yet alone Gallego. I asked a few questions and she proceeded to tell me wonders. I thought I'd just be observing in this math class. Oh no Kelly. You are wrong. Only in the beginning. I told her I didn't know math terms in Spanish but she said once I learn them I'll be explaining stuff and helping student...YIKES!! (option 3 will have been very well explored.)