Last Thursday=best day of class ever! I'm totally in love with Jose (my literature professor). I'm not sure what it is about his voice, but I just love it. He started off class talking about how being born is nothing more than the beginning of death, all intense and philosophical that sounds meaningless in English and AMAZING in Spanish. I just love the way that people here form words with their lips and the way the language comes out of their mouths... it's so much more beautiful and elegant than English. Then we did some sort of literature exercise where we had to read a passage aloud full of words that we had never heard before, which is pretty common in language classes in order to practice pronounciation and fluency. Anyway, turns out we were awful and reading and didn't understand anything because the passage was extremely vague and didn't mean much of anything- it was just an exercise. But when JOSE read it aloud it became this beautiful piece of writing about love and two people coming together.... AHHH he's just the best.
And that night we had dinner with the entire group from CEA, the study abroad program that DePaul is partnered with. We ate a tapas bar in Sol. It was the first time I've really eaten tapas here in Spain, another landmark for me. It was really different food but very good! Plus it was fun having dinner as one big group!
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| Lindsey and me in the Plaza before dinner! |
After dinner some of the group headed out to a jazz bar. That's also something I've never done before and I really loved it! Very different venue and type of people, but definitely something that fit my personality better than a club. One of the girls in our group, Devin, actually got up and sang with the band. It was so much fun, a very good night in general!
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