hello again! i´m back at the internet cafe and thought i´d update you all again, more elaboratively this time.
my apartment is in the nervion district, and my family consists of my señora, señor, their 15-year old son who is obsessed with soccer, and their 13-year old autistic son who is obsessed with disney movies. i eat every meal with the señor since the señora eats with the 13-year old, who is afraid to eat with us, and the 15-year old is never around. thus, my roommate and i are learning a lot of spanish from him. now and then we can´t think of words (such as ´fan´when i was trying to say i used this to drown out the snoring of rebecca in ithaca), but we just use funny hand motions to get him to guess what we mean, and then he´ll tell us the word we want.
i´m starting to get the hang of the city from walking so much, especially since laura and i have gone running twice. we have seen la plaza de españa, which is a beautiful building/monument with beautiful tile bridges and walkways, el parque (park) de maría luis, and the mercadillo in el parque alcosa (marketplace). we have also seen the stadium where the bullfighting occurs, the huge shopping mall in the district i live in, and plenty of statues of bullfighters and saints. i have gone past the famous cathedral, although i have yet to see the inside.
well, classes start tomorrow so wish me luck!!!! hasta luego!
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Please tell me you're going to see a bullfight at some point because that'd be totally sweet.
The parks sound really cool and I'm interested to hear more about hte cathedrals, especially since English and Spanish cathedral architecture styles differ so much.
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I was intrigued by bullfighters and saints in the same context. Perhaps there is something there about spiritual warfare? A bull fight would just make me hungry for hamburger.
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