to study or to speak spanish, that is the question

well i kinda have an exam for my least favorite class 2maro on all the different varieties of spanish and it's boring material, altho i do have to say it has been handy at the museums when the descriptions are written in one of these languages and i am able to understand it so props to it, but its dry boring material. just spent the last 2 hrs chatting away with mi mama espanola and the 2 german girls after dinner about various crazy topics like: about Japan and i made the comment about the world ending in 2012 which sparked one conversation, about america and how it censures everything and there's not really any here (is what i took from the convo), about younger generations in general, i brought up how not only the school system and how the children behave i guess is different but now that i've taken educacion classes how the US is so much more strict with what and what not a teacher is allowed to do and all that stuff. we had some really interesting conversations and its even better cuz i get to give my input. so much easier just having a convo like this around the house and whipping out my spanish with good grammar than talking in class gahhh haha. but yeah, besides learning how to speak, as in roll my "rr", my goal is to in general just be able to speak spanish much better and at ease so in my opinion it was worthwhile and i'll just have to look at my notes a bit later and in the morn. i was told you'd have to make decisions asi but i didn't think i'd actually have to. now i understand and i know what i want so i'm going for it. couldn't be more happy with my spanish family.

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.)