i've been here how many days...?

and just learned we have 2 bathrooms in this small house. i turned the water on to shower this morning but it lacked any and all sense of getting cooler...(as in warm. i call it getting cooler cuz it starts off at a freezing cold temp) or warm. so i didn't shower this morning. don't worry tho, i showered last night, so no biggie. i just didn't look my best today, that's all. during lunch, Pura explained to me i should shower downstairs when the weather is this cold because the warm water won't make it to the upstairs bathroom that i utilize. go figure, the only rooms i've been in are my room, what i thought was the only bathroom (would've saved me much trouble if i knew this earlier), the TV room (where we eat dinner while watching the news), and la cocina (aka the kitchen).

people have countdowns on how days we have left here...as in they wanna leave soon! que ridículo! when i see the countdown...my reaction: "i only have that much time to become fluent?!?! ahhhhh! necesito mas!" i don't get what's not to like about here. i came to learn the langauge and i intend to do so. i don't understand my fellow travelers at all!

worst class evaaaa

is becoming better because i can now understand her better. she talks fast and with words i don't know, but i'm beginning to catch on. 2 hours of this every monday morning. but good news is after our descanso, tengo 2 horas de mi clase favorita!!! cultura y civilización : )

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 : )