Yesterday and today I had my first classes here in Madrid! Yesterday at 9 a.m. I had Contemporary Spanish History. My professor looked a little intimidating at first. He was a big man and was wearing a cardigan. However, he seemed very nice and put lots of notes on the board. I'm not used to my professors doing that anymore but it was helpful as he was speaking a mile a minute in Spanish. I had general background knowledge of many of the things he covered in class which was reassuring! At 10:25 I had my Spanish Grammar & Usage class. I will have this class everyday, Monday through Thursday. I think this class is going to be extremely useful as we will go back over all of the grammar we have already learned and learn a lot of new vocab and slang. At 11:50 I have History of Spanish Painting. I had heard of other people in the program being in two other art history classes that actually have class in a museum and was starting to think maybe I'd picked the wrong class as I had not heard that about mine. However, I was excited to find out that every Monday my class will be at IES and every Wednesday we will go to a museum. We will have 4 units and will study in 4 different museums in Madrid.
Today I had Spanish Models of Management & Organization at 9:00. When our professor handed us the syllabus we noticed it listed about thirteen books under class materials. We were all glancing at each other and I'm sure a lot of people were thinking the same thing as I was, "How am I going to get out of this class?!" Luckily though, our professor clarified that we did not in fact have to buy these books, but that he would be giving us photocopies of articles to read from them. Phew. Finally, at 1:15 I had History of Women in Spain. I think this class will be my least favorite as the professor was a bit long winded and was definitely losing our attention when she was still talking about ten minutes after class was supposed to be over. Maybe she was just excited because it was the first day. Here's hoping!
Tonight I got to meet Cristina's granddaughter, Celia. She is 3 and is precious! After she met me and Jessica she kept asking her mom if she could "go talk to Abuela's girls." So Celia would periodically come into my room and wave to me, sing out "Holaaa", get a new toy from her stash that's kept in here, and then go back into the hall to chase Greta around.
Off to Barcelona this weekend to see my girls!!
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