Hola :)

Hola :)

Today was Christopher Columbus day here in Spain, so we didn't have to go to school. My host parents didn't go to work, actually no one had to work today and pretty much all the stores were closed in Vilagarcia. Today was not a free day like a huelga, we went to the church because my host grandpa used to be the police captain of Galicia, I think (?) that's what I understood from him telling me about it, but let's keep in mind my Spanish issn't the greatest

But anyways, we went to the church because they were giving him an award and the current police captain. After the mass, we went to a casino where they had tapas and I tried a lot of new seafood today.
Like squid, and clams. I have to admit, they weren't that bad. After the tapas, we went to a resturant and had Paella. But this one just was not good, I'm not really sure why, but I was looking foward to some really good paella.
For those of you who don't know what paella (pie-a-ah) is, I'll explain.
It's made in a huge skillet. On the bottom it's rice, not white rice, yellow rice because it's made with saffron. Paella can have any type of meat or seafood and veggies in it but the one's I have eaten had shrimp, clams, chicken, onion, squid, octopus and other seafood. It's delish

Hmm what else is going on in my life here?
School is getting easier, I think. Some days I can understand a lot of what is said to me and other days I just can't process Spanish. We don't have a lot of homework but every night Lorenzo and I study, review notes and do practice problems in math. Math is the most difficult subject here for me. Weird, I know. But they do all types of math every year, algebra,geometry,advanced algebra, calculus...
When I took algerbra 2 years ago I was good at it, but algebra here... way more intense. So there's a lot I don't remember or know how to do.
Today, I found out in order to get an 'A' in gym here, at the end of the year we have to run for an hour.
AN HOUR. No walking, no breaks, nothing. Just running. I think I might die.

I have an AFS meeting coming up on October 21st-23rd. I'm excited to see some of the people but I really don't want to be gone for 3 days, on a weekend. Well whatever...

I think my next post is going to be about some of the differences I've been keeping track of here, so keep checking back :)

Adios!