I've officially had a full week of classes now, so I feel like I can now give you all a better idea of what they are like. I'm really enjoying them so far, and have already improved my speaking and grammar by leaps and bounds.
My first class on Monday/Wednesday is my Islam class. I really like my teacher, he's the one who gave us all our Granada tours at the beginning of the semester and is really nice and funny. He loves to emphasis things by saying that they are "Bery bery important...", it's pretty funny. All the teachers have little English phrases they try to use, which is fun for us. Anyway, I've already learned a ton about the beginnings or Islam and how it has shaped what Spain is today. I think we will be able to take some trips in this class as well, so that will be fun.
I also have an Oral/Writing class that is going well, and a Grammar class. These are our two required classes, and they are probably the two that I am learning the most in, in terms of my speaking. So far, we are just going over the basics and correcting commonly made errors, which is a great review for me, since I commonly make a lot of errors.
Tuesday/Thursday I have a Geography class with a you teacher with the thickest Andalusian accent I've come across so far here in Spain. This makes it very difficult to understand him, but he's nice to look at, so that makes up for it. :) I actually really like this class as well, because we are learning all about the landscape and culture of Spain. Pretty useful stuff to learn all about the surroundings I'm in. We will also be able to take some "field trips" in this class to actually see some of the things we are studying, so that will be fun. I don't know if you know, but Granada is in a very interesting part of Spain, in terms of geography. It is very close to the beach, but also surrounded by the Sierra Nevada mountains. We definitely have the best of both worlds!
I am also taking a Spanish literature class, which I'm not overly excited about, but it's required for my Spanish major at Central, so hopefully it goes quickly. I'm sure I will end up liking it, so I'm not too worried.
We also have 3 one day per week classes with my favorite teacher, José. José is employed by Central, is hilarious, incredibly smart, and very fluent in both English and Spanish. He is teaching us "foneticas" to help us with our Spanish pronunciation, a Tutorial class to help us with learn Spanish slang and new phrases we may not have come across in the past, and a Granada Seminar to help explain the reasons and backgrounds for some of the things they do here in Granada, like tapas or flamenco, for example. I really like all of these classes, and have already learned so much from José.
Well, those are my classes...hope this wasn't too boring to read, but I just wanted you to get a taste of what types of classes I'm taking here. Hope all is well back home...Miss you!
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