And the work begins.

Today was the first day of classes. Can't say that i like to go from lazing around and doing whatever to 4 hours of intensive spanish followed by a test. That if it was graded I know i would have made about a 20%. maybe. But today the test was just to see what level our spanish was. Needless to say, I will be on the bottom. All of the students here have had at least two if not three more spanish classes than I have, because with nursing I have only been able to take two. O well, i'll learn.
So we took care of our student Visas and then had our first day of class. The spanish they teach you in school is crap by the way. It is completely different here. The verbs and the vocab are all the same, but they pronounce and spell them very differently.
For example, we learned to say "como te llamas?" in the states which means what is your name. Here they say "como te llamás". They use vos instead of tu and the two ll's are pronounced with a deep j sound instead of a y sound like we were taught. and the accent added means that you emphasize the second syllable.  So needless to say, without seeing the words it is sometimes hard to know what they are saying.
After class we went into the city and walked around the shops again. The biggest event of the day was when we were able to get home on the bus without a native speaker! True I did have Jonathan and Kyle with me, but still.
Now my mom is making me dinner and I think she said she is making chips and salsa. Or salsa and cake. not sure. (tarta can be used for both) Lets hope for the former.