Yesterday I had my first Spanish exam, it was not that bad. We met our new professor, she had taught with FSU before, it sounds like she had just "retired" of sorts but they brought her back for this. She made a point to tell us she was an American citizen, but she was born here and her English is much more understandable. Good things.
Last night Dara, and her friends Amelia and myself went to a language exchange where everyone wanted to speak English. Instead of us going an exchange for us to speak Spanish and them to practice English here everyone needed to practice English, so I could talk and it was great. One woman we talked to was from Chile and the guys were from Poland and Italy, oh, and Amelia is from China studying here, but she speaks English. It was fun. Amelia was getting hit on by a creepy guy and I hadn't been feeling so hot so we left around 10. I got to sleep by 11 and woke up at 6:30 with a great night of rest. Amazing. I went back to sleep afterward, too, no worries.
This morning we woke up and went on a "mountain walk" which was much more of a hike. We traveled by bus for an hour to this castle, that wasn't actually there. We had to hike about a mile uphill to get there, but the only thing still intact was the prison. The castle was destroyed in an earthquake in 1870 something. But the prison stood. It was not worth it, the hike was fun, the castle was not.
We got back to campus around 4 and I worked on my last macro assignment before the 2nd exam. I finished it once I was asked if I wanted to go the Berklee concerts at the City of Arts and Sciences. The Berklee College of Music has a campus in Valencia that is right near the Arts and Science Center. On Friday nights the students perform on the water and a hundred or so people showed up, it was impressive and they were so good! They spoke English and sang in English and the atmosphere was spectacular and I'm sad we didn't go sooner. We will be back though.
Tonight I made banana cake! But, I made banana cake without beaters (to cream the shortening and sugar), without shortening and instead used vegetable margarine, without sour/buttermilk and instead used yogurt, without baking soda and instead doubled my use of baking powder, without vanilla, and without measuring cups or teaspoons, Like before everything needs to be approximated via the measuring cup thing using milliliters, and baking powder here comes in a box filled with 10 packets that all contain 1 or 2 tablespoons of it, maybe, so I had been using some for my cookie things and I just dumped whatever was left into the mix. It looked like enough for both the baking powder and baking soda use, so I left it. Experimenting. The batter tasted like banana cake batter, which is a good sign, and the cake came out deliciously. Seriously, it's amazing. I will be able to make so many recipes without half of the actual ingredients by the time I get home, it'll be great!
Dara and Caitlin came over for a while. Caitlin just wanted to chill with us but Dara and I actually had to plan. Her friend, Amelia, is planning on coming to Rome with us, I think, so we're trying to figure out hostels, but Amelia avoided answering the questions about Rome and Dara was spazzing. She couldn't decide what to do, because we found this great place, that fairly cheap for being a 9.4/10 rating, so I told her to book it, and after more spazzing, she did. It was rough.
It's 2:30 am here, now, and I'm super tired but I figured I would be shunned if I didn't update this soon. I have some photos of the concert, which are very cool, but later, This was a very, very, quickly written blog entry, just so everyone is aware if it is super rough or very run-on-y, that's why. I'll put the pictures on later. I'm so tired. Buenas noches!
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