It's Saturday! Yesterday we had our meetings to discuss which classes we are going to take this semester, starting in February. The University system for picking classes is horrible...literally horrible. I thought UNC had a pretty confusing system, but this one is all over the place. So after many failed attempts at finding classes that were available and would give me credit, I finally came up with a schedule. And better yet, a schedule with no Friday classes!

I'll be taking two classes at EUSA (the international school that we are at now) and two classes at the University of Sevilla. My classes are The History of Modern Spain and Geography of Andalusia (both at the university) and then a Spanish literature class and a class called Spain and Islam at EUSA. 

After our meetings we went home to eat lunch and do some homework and then had our night class. After class we tried to all meet up in the computer lab to buy tickets to go to Ronda today, but the website told us that there weren't any bus tickets available and it became a huge mess! So we ended up not going to Ronda today, but I'm sure we'll go another time when it is warmer and we get our bus tickets in advance. 

Last night we met up with some other students and their Spanish friends and went around town. It was pretty cold outside but it was cool to meet Spanish people our age, because most of them have been busy studying since we got here. The Spanish university has a really strange exam schedule, and they have exams now for their classes that ended in December. The classes that we will be taking have their actual exams in late June and July, so we had to ask permission from the professors to let us take them early before we go back to the US. It's a very different system than at home!

Today we have been hanging out with our family and are going to visit some friends across the river in a few hours when the shops open back up (everything closes from around 2-5 for "siesta"). Maggie has a pretty bad cold so we're thinking some gelato and coffee will be good for her :) 

We spent the entire time at lunch quizzing Luis and Maria on some English words. They ended up being super excited to ask us how to say things in English and it was really fun to practice with them, because it helps our Spanish too! AND we got some very exciting news from Luis. Maggie and I told him that we are planning on going to a Sevilla soccer game while we are here, and we asked him to help us find the schedule online and help us figure out how to get tickets and everything. We soon came to find out that our family actually has season tickets to the game! Even better than that, our host mom has a friend who is a journalist for a team called Villarreal (from her hometown of Valencia), and her friend gets them press passes to that game so that they can sit up closer. So Luis told us that if his parents get the better seats then we can take their season tickets and go to that game for free! He said it is a really fun game to watch and their season ticket seats are much closer than the seats we would buy for ourselves. We're very excited to go watch a Sevilla game because soccer is almost a religion over here, and the atmosphere is supposed to be so fun to be in.

Tonight is the Sevilla vs. Betis game, which are the two local teams in Sevilla, and it is a huge deal here. We are all going to meet up somewhere to watch the game later on. Hasta luego!