01.10.2008

hola. today was my second day of real classes. i have a clase de gramatica, una clase de conversación y una clase de arte y la cultura de España. my grammar teacher es de puta madre (he´s really cool). today we had to write about our first kiss. mine was when i was seven years old with a girl on our street. i said that i did it because my brothers paid me twenty five cents to do it and Manolo, my teacher, said ¡aha, prostitución! class is really run. the teachers are a lot of fun especially manolo. he´s always telling jokes and making everyone laugh. tomorrow in my conversation class i have to sit in front of the class for five minutes and speak in spanish on a topic of my choice. ithink im going to start out by syaing "hola. my name is gabriel and i am single." because im the only guy in the class. this trip is awesome because im one of only four guys in a group of twenty four...so twenty girls. ¡very nice, as my friend borat would say!

i don´t really know what ill talk about tomorrow for my presentation in class, but ill think of something tonight and tell you all about it tomorrow. tonight im going to a party at one of the bars being thrown by ERASMUS students who are all international students from around europe so i should get to meet some nice new people.

i have an upcoming four day weekend and my friend and i are thinking about going to the canary islands.

something funny: the other day i was running across the street to meet some friends and an old man said ¡Estás jodido! which means, more or less, "You are fucked". Over here it´s kind of like England in that vulgarity when speaking is pretty well accepted. it isn´t really considered vulgar. the old man was´t trying to be mean or anything he was probably just telling me i shouldn´t be running like a crazy person. In america we really are prudes. what we consider vulgar isn´t considered vulgar by the rest of the world. anyway, ill say more tomorrow. hasta mañana.