¡¡Se Empiecen Las Clases, Solamente en Español!!

So today was our second day of classes in the University of Sevilla, which means that now four of my five classes are completely in Spanish with professors who do not speak english and are not really used to American students. It has been an interesting first couple days in the university. Yesterday we all got there early in order to find our classrooms and make sure we could see our advisor. The crazy thing about the University of Sevilla is that it is a converted tobacco factory, which if you had ever been into an industrial factory you would know that they structural organization of such buildings does not lend well to creating an organized numbering system of rooms. In addition there is an added floor which is stuffed between the first and second floor, honestly it sounds like and looks like something out of a harry potter book. The ceiling might be seven feet high and the doors are even smaller. Also its interesting that this floor isnt the second floor, its the middle floor between the first and second floors, which to me makes absolutely no logical sense. Until today, I didn't even know that this floor existed or how to access it. Anyways, along with having an extra floor which is not numbered between floors one and two, classes in different sections of the university are numbered differently. In other words there is really no cohesion within this building. The History classes are numbered with roman numberals while all the other departments are numbered in arabic numerals. Which means that there are multiple classroom 6´s and so on and so forth, so you have to be in the right section of the university to ensure that you can find the correct classroom for your class. Needless to say it is a bit confusing as you walk around the university but I think I have it figured out now...We shall see! Classes have gone well so far and I can understand the majority of what is being said in them. There are a ton of people from my program in a couple of my classes, but in one of them I don´t have anyone that I know!! I think that learning in a different system will be really interesting and a ton of fun!! Anyways, enough about school!! This past weekend we took a trip to Ronda which consisted of a two hour bus ride through the mountains. We left Sevilla on Saturday morning and returned on Sunday night. Ronda was FREEZING on Saturday!! We hit up all the tourist sites and the museums. There was a really neat museum callend Museo Lara which was simply a collection of collections which has a private owner but it was really neat. There were collections of watches, cameras, photographs, diving equipment, compasses, weapons, torture devices, witchcraft stuff and a ton more. It was just interesting to see the different collections and realize how much history this one man had collected. Yesterday was Christine's birthday so this weekend was kind of our celebration for her birthday since turning 21 on a monday night just isnt too exciting. We went out for tapas and such and ended up meeting and making friends with the owner of the bar and we got to watch the Sevilla FC vs Real Bettis game (the two fútbol teams from Sevilla). Bettis won at Sevilla FC's field which is the first time in like 15 years or something like that and it was an incredible game. We had a ton of fun just hangin around in Ronda!! Sunday we met up with Paige, Hannah, Maria, and Zhenya and toured some more of the city with them. Ronda is a mountain town which is divided in two parts by a huge gorge which is incredily beautiful!! We toured the bridge and then hiked down and around into the gorge!! It was amazing and it was beautiful!! I got to do a little impromptu rock climing also which was a lot of fun!! I climbed up on this huge archway which was down at the edge of the gorge and it was so much fun!! I also got to climb a tree and get up on top of the ruins of an arabic style house which was a lot of fun also. We had a great time just hangin around Ronda and actually hiking down into the gorge was probably one of the most fun things that I havae done in Spain!! It was beautiful and I actually got to be outside and be active and such which was great. I am hoping that now that have a more normal schedule with classes starting in the mornings that I can get some good runs in here in Sevilla. Anyways, this was our first trip that we planned and executed by ourselves which was a cool feeling and it was a ton of fun to do!! Anyways I miss everyone and I hope all is well!! Hasta Luego!!