Catch-up time

Warning: this is going to be a very long, yet vague post since I haven't posted anything in almost a month. Okay, so let's begin updating whoever is reading this on my life.

Classes:
Since my last post my intensive class has ended and my regular class session has started, which I am grateful for because I haven't felt like I have had the opportunity to settle down since I got here and the few weeks prior to coming here were also extremely crazy. So basically what I am trying to say that is that I am extremely glad to have some type of consistent schedule.
My classes are okay. I am taking two language classes that are required by my program that I enjoy and a class about the gastronomy of Spain, which I love even though we don't get to eat in every class. I still find it really interesting to learn about the food here. As for my fourth class, I am not a fan of which is why I am not really enjoying my class. It's a class about the economy and society of contemporary Spain, which is extremely interesting except for my professor. He lectures for two hours straight, which isn't good for someone who has a hard time concentrating in a 50-minute class in English. Definitely going to be a challenge to keep up with what's going on.

Planning trips:
During my time here in Spain I am hoping to travel and explore other countries in the area. Luckily I have planned three trips. The first one starts tonight and is to Lisbon, Portugal for the weekend. The second trip is in three weeks with some friends from another program to Stuttgart, Germany and Strasbourg, France. A really exciting part about this trip is that I get to see my brother in Germany for the weekend because he only lives 2 hours away from Stuttgart and is going to come down for the weekend. He is also coming out the weekend before to Sevilla and I am extremely excited to see him and show him around my new home :) Then in April I signed up to go on a trip to Morocco for 6 days and 5 nights. It is a little bit longer than I wanted to spend in one country, because there is so many places to see, but it is through a travel agency and not too expensive for everything that we are doing and plus I get to see a lot of Morocco and don't know when I will have to opportunity to go to Morocco again.

Places visited:
So far I have not gone anywhere for more than a day trip, which is going to change tonight but I will talk about that trip in my next post. I have gotten to travel to Carmona and Osuna, which are two small towns in the providence of Sevilla. Both trips were only for half of the day and I really enjoyed both of them, except for the fact that it rained the entire time I was in Osuna. They are both extremely pretty towns and I am so glad that my program organized trips to these cities (the fact that I didn't have to pay anything since it was a part of my program fee is also a great aspect).
I also got to go to Gibraltar for the day through a travel agency. Gibraltar is located on the coast of southern Spain and is owned by England. I had been there before on a family vacation a few years ago but wanted to go again because I absolutely loved the city- there are wild monkeys that roam the city but mainly stay on this big rock/cliff and you can go and see them. They are so cute but there was no way I was getting close to one when I found out that they can bite; not a souvenir I want to bring back with me.

Okay, so this was an extremely vague post but I promise that I will post more often and with more details and pictures in the near future! Still need to finish packing for my Portugal trip :/

¡Hasta luego!