This apartment has a rooftop terrace?

Today I fully appreciated for the first time not being a blonde. I always thought it would be fun to have blonde hair, it's so pretty and looks better in almost every hair style, but living in Sevilla has made me love having dark hair because it makes me fit in. I can walk to class in peace without getting anyone of the negative attention that Americans, especially blonde's receive here. In fact I am often mistaken for a Sevillano and people ask me for directions, which is flattering  but only lasts until I open my mouth.

It was also my second day of class and I enjoyed it just as much as the first. We spent the day doing activities that helped us practice the many different forms of past tense that exist in the Spanish language, but our professor had us ask and answer funny questions so we got to learn more about each other and bond a little bit too. Our assignment for Thursday is to go see a movie, "La Chispa de Vida", which means "The Spark of Life". It is a dark comedy about the unemployment situation in Spain, which is a very relevant problem, as 30% of people under 40 are unemployed in Sevilla. I am really looking forward to seeing this movie because I will get to experience my first Spanish movie theatre, and I love comedies that have a little something extra behind the laughs.

After class I went home and my Señora made me an awesome lunch and I told her about my classes and trips I had planned. She told me some things I might enjoy doing while I was there and I feel like we really bonded today.  We must have because later she offered to show me how/where she dries the laundry. She took me up to the roof of our building which is how I found out we have a rooftop terrace with a spectacular view of the city. I learned which key opens the door to the roof and she told me I can hangout up there whenever I want, but that I can't take Pantera up there. At first I was just like haha, because it had never occurred to me to take the cat outside, but then she was like no really she is afraid of heights. Which made us both laugh. Later that day I embarrassed myself big time, Pantera came into my room and kept squeak meowing at me, and so I tried to imitate her. Turned out that my door was open and my Señora came in because she thought something was wrong, and I had to explain to her that I had been meowing because I was playing with the cat, AWKWARD...

I also signed up for two weekend trips through my program. I will be going to Cordoba for the day on February 4th, and to Granada for two days the following weekend! I am very excited to experience new parts of Spain and see what new adventures it brings!

P.S. Sorry that this blog was so boring aka had no pictures, it was too dark to get good ones of the terrace so I'll post some later.

Hasta Luego