Yesterday was a pretty fun filled day. We started off by waking up early (11:00 for us) and went to get our pictures made for our university IDs. After that we ate spaghetti for lunch with Carmen. We hung around the house for a while and then walked over to a little coffee shop down the street. We spent a good two hours just chatting and drinking our coffee (the coffee con leche here is incredible) and then at 5:30 headed over to our first class! It was really nice to finally do something productive. The first half of the class was spent with our professor Angeles in the language section of the course. We played typical name games to introduce ourselves and then she just started talking about everything that was due. Seems like there will be a fair amount of work but it shouldn't be too bad. After all, its just one class for three weeks, and you only have to get a 5 out of 10 to receive UNC credit for it. The second half of the course is culture and it's taught by a much more laid back professor named Fernando. He doesn't speak any english, smells strongly of cigarettes, and has one of the largest beer bellies I've seen here. (Cigarettes are suprisingly far more common here--its not really looked down upon as much as it is in the US. A lot of other people in the program have senoras that smoke constantly. Luckily Pilar and Luis don't!)

When we got back home from class at 8:30 we showed our little brother Luis our homework from cultural class and he was so excited to help. We had to fill out maps of the communidades autonomos in Spain and their capitals. Luis practically did it for us! For language we had homework but our teacher conveniently forgot to tell us to buy the book ahead of time so we had to go find the book today.

Yes, we took a first day of school picture!

Dinner was once again delicious. Barcelona was playing Madrid tonight so our parents were having Luis' brother and his girlfriend over to watch the game. We ate chicken with "poor man's potatoes" and some other random appetizers--including shrimp which still have their eyes on here! We watched a little bit of the game with our parents and really felt like we bonded! Apparently Pilar speaks 4 languages and studied English for 4 years in Ireland (where she met Luis when they were both 17)! Who knew she could understand us when we were talking in english! It was really great to get to know them on a more personal level. Apparently Pilar really wants to send little Luis to Ireland to study next year but Luis really doesn't want to. It also is starting to make more sense why they take in Americans once a year. Not only because Pilar was once in our shoes, but also because she knows how important it is for her kids to learn english. 

Later that night we met up with a bunch of people for a free sangria party through this company called DiscoverSevilla. Everyone seems really big on the idea of booking trips through them, but I personally think its kind of a rip off. If they can afford an office in the nicest and most expensive part of town, they must be making a ton off of us! But the free sangria was too good of a deal to pass up! After a while they took us around to this discoteca called Abril that was conveniently very close to our house. (The DiscoverSevilla people kept trying to convince all of us to split cabs so they wouldn't have to walk, but we are all far too cheap to pay for cabs. Plus the city is to beautiful not to walk through) For some reason the promoter for the club we went to gave someone 30 free beer coupons so no one had to pay for drinks at all that night! Pretty sweet deal, huh?

Well I'm off to get some work done before class! Hope all is well with everyone else!