Penultimate day in Spain

Hello!

Today was the penultimate day of school! We didn’t do much. In grammar we did por versus para, which I have done a thousand times before. We chatted it up a bit in between exercises. I am so excited to go home! In history we talked more about Franco and almost finished the Franco era. He was one messed up dude. To him women were the property of men. They could not buy or sell anything without their husband’s signature. It was disgusting. In literature we discussed the text. It was slightly more interesting than the other texts if only because the narrator was crazy. I also convinced our teacher to give us a party tomorrow. Well, not really a party but just no literature discussion in class. I bought cookies for 50 cents today for the pah-tay! In culture we began watching a movie; Primos. My teacher was going to put on English subtitles because Primos is a comedy and has a lot of colloquial language. A kid in my class disagreed and insisted she put it on Spanish subtitles so we can all practice. This lasted for about 5 minutes into the movie when the same kid requested she pause the movie to explain a term that the kid didn’t understand. I called for a revote, and won English subtitles! But, alas, my teacher is technologically incompetent and she managed to turn on the blind people narration, so every single action in the film was not only shown to us but described in Spanish. Woohoo! At least the movie is funny.

Lunch was the potato stew and we actually had red meat for the first time. It was a little piece of steak, but very yummy with garlic on top. I then met Patti and we went and saw the Leonardi DaVinci exposition. It was super cool. They basically took all his sketches and made models of all of them. Amazing! That guy was a genius. Then we went back to Casa Lis to see the museum of Art Deco and Art Noveau again. Well, Patti had never seen it. The dolls were even more creepy this time. I may have nightmares tonight.

Dinner was chicken with carrots and bell peppers on top plus a salad. I brought my camera and took pictures of me with my host parents to share. They are amazing host parents and I couldn’t have asked for anyone better.

Tonight is my very last night in Salamanca. We are leaving at 1 am tomorrow night, or really Saturday morning. That makes it 4 pm on Friday California time. 24 hours! I cannot wait to go home. =D I will update before I get on the bus tomorrow night and let you all know how my very last full day in Spain went.