First days

My brother wrote me to tell me that the Colts won the Super Bowl. I had forgotten that the Super Bowl was coming up! All of the things from home seem so far away; this really is another world. I am taking an intensive Spanish language course in the Center for Languages at the university. Things are different here. In Spain, people pay to learn languages. It's not like regular courses like in the US. For me, though, this course (5 hours a day, 5 days) is free, and there is another course (all semster, 45 hours total) that is free for me as an ISEP (the program through which I'm studying in Spain) student as well.

After the night in the hotel, there was a informational meeting at the university, and the people in the office for foreign students found me a family to stay with until Sunday, when a room in my flat would be available. I was happy that one of the girls, Zivle, from Lithuania, helped me find the family's flat and carry one of my little bags up also. I stayed there until Sunday morning, when I walked across the city to my flat. I haven't been able to find a protestant church here yet, but I'm sure that there is one....perhaps only one, but there probably is one. This next Sunday I hope to go to one of the big cathedrals. I can see one of them in the old part of the city from my bedroom window.

I want to write more, because there is so much to tell about the city, the family, my flat mates, and everything I have done so far. I have some pictures to share as well. However, I'm about to meet up with some friends, and I don't like to be late. Pues, I'm already late (15 minutes). So, I will try to write tomorrow.