Valentine´s!

For Valentine´s Day my friends and I decided to go to the discoteca, since, for some reason or another, we had not yet been. First, we went out to a bar for one round of tapas aroun 1am. These tapas were very good, mini cheese sticks and french fries with ketchup and mayo (sounds weird, but surprisingly really good!). One thing I love about tapas bars is that you never seem to get the same appetizer twice and you never know which one you will get this time. After the bar we headed to the discoteca Granada 10 ("Granada diez") at abou 2:30am. It´s considered lame if you get to a disco before 2am and they stay open until the sun comes up (literally, 7am). Thankfully Granada 10 had a coat check, because it was a pretty chilly night and I would never have seen my coat again if I had put it down in the midst of the mass of people inside. I was with a group of about 8 girls and we had so much fun dancing! Although there are a few creepers at the disco, but that´s why your friends are there to rescue you when necessary. We stayed dancing for a few hours and left a little after 4am; so many people were just arriving when we were getting our coats! Some day we want to stay until it closes at 7am, but we have all semester to build up to that! Sunday I went to church again, this time the pastor (a different speaker than last time) was easier to understand. It´s very nice that the service doesn´t start until 12pm so I was able to get enough sleep after going out the night before. Although I did take a siesta after church as well! Yesterday was the first day of "real" classes (taking notes and such). We watched a movie on prehistoric cultures and art in my Art History class. Sometimes I have to remind myself to pay attention because it is very easy to zone out in class, especially since it is in another language. This is not good because I should be focussing! During my composition class my program director came in and asked to speak with me outside. I didn´t really know what was going on, but when I got out there she gave me a boquet of roses! David had sent me them for Valentine´s Day, what a great surprise! Then of course I got a little grief from the professor when I walked back into class with roses, but oh well. After class I asked my roommate to carry them home for me since I usually go straight to the pool for swimming and really didn´t want to have to stuff them in a locker. Swimming went well, a very good workout. I am slowly building up endurance for a 50 meter pool, when I get back to swimming in a 25 yard pool it is going to seem so easy! Today I had my grammar class and History of Spain, both of which are good so far and have very interesting professors (which is good when one of them is at 8:30am). My Islamic Culture class was actually canceled so I had a nice break before I had to go to my program meeting.