My time in Salamanca is coming to an end, and I don't want to leave. We have all been quejándonos that we don't want to go, that we want to stay the entire year here, that it's going to be sad, etc, and it's only been barely 2 weeks! And not even in our main attraction, Madrid! We've made great friendships with our professors and tonight we're going out to dinner with some, and then out out. It's bittersweet to have to leave.
We had more examenes today, in grammar and composition. In grammar especially, we have learned TONS of idioms that Spaniards use every day. And the best part is that studying means saying these wherever we go and impressing the Spaniard we're talking to with our knowledge of the language. For instance, Estar como un tren, literally meaning 'to be like a train' means to be extremely pretty or handsome. As an idiom, that might have the parallel of a phrase in English like 'to be drop-dead gorgeous'. Instead of being scared like a chicken, one of the idioms is being scared like a goose. It's funny.
Además, in our culture classes in the afternoons, we have gone to cafes just to tomar un café and chat (with one of our teachers, who is wayy gracioso). While we chat, outside the confines of the classroom, we learn so much more about how to describe our surroundings and the people we see.
Yesterday, a few of us went to the Museo de Art Nouveau y Art Déco - Casa Lis in Salamanca. Anyone that knows me can affirm that I HATE museums, but this one was so different than any I had ever been to. It was full of Art Deco from the 1920's, with flapper costumes, dolls, vases, fans, sculptures. I enjoyed it bastante.
Anoche, we had dinner at El Corrillo, a great restaurant near the Plaza Mayor with our entire group. The dinner, like always, was too delicious to describe, and we all had trouble walking home, especially with those truffles and cream for dessert.
Here comes the horario for the next days. Tonight some of us are going out for tapas with people from the school, and then out for the night because Thursday is a big party night. Tomorrow we have class, but tomorrow is also the start of the Feria y Fiestas de Salamanca, in which the entire city turns into a fiesta. The streets are full of casetas, which are kiosks that will each specialize in a pincho, or tapa, and a drink, for very little money. Along with these tons of casetas, there will be music from regions, time periods, and different countries on each main street, as well as tons of theatre exhibitions and art galleries. Tomorrow night we're going to a concierto of the popular Spanish Pop-Rock band, Amaral. We bought our tickets today, and we're getting very excited. Then Saturday we move out at 1pm. Unfortunately we will be missing most of the Feria, but maybe we can manage coming back next week. Pictures will come when this internet doesn't APESTAR TANTO!!!! :)
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