El Fin de Semana

Hello Everyone!

Things here in Cádiz are still going great. This weekend was my first weekend being in my new apartment and it was really fun! Friday night I went out with some other girls form the program (Megan, Lisa and my roommate Abbey) and some Italian friends we met. We had drinks on the beach and walked around New Cadiz and then went back to Enrica's and Louise's (Some of the Italian people) and had some Sangria. It was a pretty calm night but still very fun. It is so funny because with just a few people sitting together, there are so many languages going on. First, you have the Italian people who at times would speak really fast Italian that we couldn't understand, then you have us Americans speaking English that they can't understand, then the Spanish people that more or less everyone can understand (unless they speak too fast) and then to communicate together we have to speak slow, broken Spanish or slow, broken English. It is really weird but cool. This is something that Europeans deal with all the time because of the extremely close proximity to so many languages, but as an American really only exposed to English on a daily basis, it was neat to be a part of.

So, on Saturday, after running a few errands (which were difficult in the first place... try buying meat at a grocery store when they use kilos instead of pounds and no one can understand what you are asking for- I definitely need a conversion table or something) we went to the beach in the afternoon and then came home to relax, have dinner, and get ready to go out. This time, I went out with all of my roommates (Abbey and Garazi and Ane the Spanish girls). Garazi is the one on the very left and Ane is the one on the very right in the pic above. You obviously probably know which one is Abbey by now too. We met up with 2 of Garazi and Ane's friends named Sara and Olga and had tapas style sandwiches and drinks at this really good restaurant and then went out to a bar called Nahu and another one called Persigueme (?). All of these places are less than a minute walk from my house so it's pretty awesome!! There was definitely a language barrier (especially when they would talk really fast) but we were steal able to communicate and have a really good time!

I guess how it works here is in the summer everyone goes out in New Cádiz (the newer part of the city by the beach) and then in the winter when it gets colder, everyone goes out in Old Cádiz (the city center part where I live). So it is getting to be that time of year when everyone goes out in the old part so I am looking forward to that!

My first day of real work is tomorrow, when I will actually be sitting down with the teachers and going in the classroom. I am pretty nervous but excited to get in to a routine at the same time. I still haven't heard from that guy that I had the interview with at the English school at I probably wont hear from him for about 2 weeks but I will keep everyone posted on that. Well that is about all for now