This week has been going well! It is my second week of classes, and there seems to be a little more homework--not too much, but it does take me longer to think and write in Spanish.
Specifically for my Sociopolitical Topics class, every Thursday we are given an article to read and then write a summary/critique. Our professor told us that the point of these asignments is to be able to work through complicated issues and concentrate our thoughgts. It is difficult enough in English to be precise and succinct with ideas, so I had to read the article a couple of times, and then start to form my ideas. If any of you are interested, the article was about the shift from dictatorship in Spain to democracy without war. It worked through the nuances of democracy and the limited promises which it provides (giving forth the view that every governing system has its benefits and pitfalls). It took my a day or two to think about what exactly I was going to say and then actually work through it in Spanish. I definitely had to go back and make sure I was stringing my ideas together and actually making sense instead of just spitting onto the page. I definitely see my writing ability improve though so far, and am looking forward to doing more.
In other news, I signed up to volunteer at the Community Center in Granada on Wednesday to help teach English to kids. Yesterday only about five of them came though (and there were about eight volunteers) so we ended up playing some games which involved them saying the names of animals in English, and trying to guess what each animal was.It was definitely a lot of fun, yet extremely hard to understand the kids at first, since they mumble their words. I´ll tell you more about it after next week!
This weekend my group is heading off to Seville and Cordoba, so I am bound to have a lot of pictures next time, but since I don´t have not taken many photos, here are two that I have taken this week!
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| This is of a pastry Wyatt and I split the other day...needless to say it was quite good |
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| I happened upon this written in one of the textbooks in the library, why are people so awesome? |
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