Daily Adventures

For over one month now I have lived in the city of Vic. Within this short time, one month later, I have come to realize I have very little sense of time. I have a routine I follow for the most part, yet each day I am still learning new things, stumbling across new places, stumbling across a place I already found and lost, and overall taking in what's surrounding me inside and outside of the house.

My adventures this past week:

• Enrolling in a Catalán class which will begin next week.
• Taking up Pilates with Maria Carme (my host mom)
• Getting a library card (and informing the man at the front desk that the book he read which stated girls from Des Moines, IA are beautiful is correct)
• Doing my homework (Don Quijote has some strange adventures, math is relief, Art History is way over my head, and I now have a strange and slightly impulsive internal desire to study grammar)
• Meeting new people and meeting people again whose names I forgot, as well as just going about being friendly in general.
• Buying and ordering things in broken Spanish
• Going to a Discotech (no explanation)
• Falling in love with the shoes here even more
• Going through the process of getting (more!) identification to, yet again, work with the visa process.
• Learning that I cannot download certain items since they are not within Spain's domain

There's been a lot more going on, but these are the everyday sort of things that have been keeping me occupied. Four very nice girls are now helping me learn Catalán one day a week, and I´ve been keeping up with my cello. I've also been going on a lot of walks around Vic, and tomorrow I plan on seeing an exhibit of a local artist's work in the museum located above the library. I've had a couple of requests to write more about food, so you can guess what my next blog will be about :) I have a couple of exams coming up on Monday, so I should probably study ...

Sidenote: My ability to understand and/or speak in a foreign language varies day by day. Today was a bit more difficult. I still don't know if the feeling in my head is from translating or from something else altogether. I've gotten into the habit of now listening to a local Catalán station when I go walking with Stick. My first Rotary presentation is coming up on October 26th: first order of business, establishing that a vast majority of Americans are not representatives of NYC.