Well my first few days have been interesting. On my first day, my brothers friend Kevin met me at the airport and we took a taxi to my Senoras house (host family). In my email, my school only gave me her name so I figured that it would just be her. So when I got to her house, she explained most things to Kevin because he speaks fluent spanish so things would go quicker. I also thought I had a room to myself but I am sharing with another kid from the Saint Louis home campus (I go to the SLU campus here). His name is Eric, and theres another kid here named Ben who is here on an internship and they both speak fluent spanish and he shares a room with my senora's son, Alejandro. And whenever my senora calls his name all I can think of is Lady Gaga. ALE ALEJANDRO! My senoras brother is also named Leo and he has brown hair, hes short, and has black hair so its a running joke around here about how opposite we are. The first day, i'm pretty sure my senora thought I was like the dumbest person alive because she explained a few things to me in spanish but she speaks at like 900 words per minute so I didn't catch everything! So I guess I wasn't supposed to close the bathroom door all of the way, so I locked myself in there for about 10 minutes, I couldn't open the front door, and I didn't pray at the dinner dinner table before we ate with everyone so she also thinks i'm the son of the devil. And because I know the least amount of spanish out of the three of us, she doesn't even bother to explain things to me anymore because she thinks i'm a retard and it was frustrating for a while. But after the past couple days I think i'm growing on her after talking to me more. The second day, I had my first classes, and my first professor seems real nice, he's my international advertising teacher and he will be good. And my photography teacher didn't show up the first day so I'm not quite sure what she'll be like. After classes, I went exploring and I took their metro system which is really clean and nice and it is my first picture below. One ride on the train is 1 euro, so its pretty similar to how much a ride is in Chicago with the exchange rate. Any more questions, I would sign up on this site and just post me questions, and I will probably be able to respond fairly quickly.
Adios!
Leo
Metro train system---
My street!
My school, located in a very "old money" neighborhood
Chueca, their version of boystown. Of course, the gays got one of the prettiest parts of the city, and most of the pics below are in and around Chueca.
Haha this is a typical store in Chueca, surprisingly, there were a lot of woman's shoe stores and clothing stores, maybe the lesbians in other cities outside the US actually dress up.
