Tableta de chocolate

My second week of class was a lot more enjoyable than the first, we have moved on from syllabus reading to actually learning interesting things. I think that my favorite class so far is probably 'Spanish for the health professional', I really like the professor. He keeps things interesting and really tries to improve our grasp of the Spanish language while teaching us things relevant to the course like the parts of the body and how to make a doctors appointment. What I like the most though is when he teaches us Spanish phrases, two of my favorites so far have been "soltero y entero" or "single and ready to mingle" and "tableta de chocolate" or "six-pack abs", he taught us both of these on Valentine's day, how useful.

The other class that I like a lot is 'Culture and Cuisine of Spain', we spent ALL of last week learning about 'aceite de oliva' or 'olive oil'. Which is fitting because Spain is the largest producer of olive oil in all of Europe, which according to my professor, makes the Mediterranean angry, so they hate Spain. On Thursday, we spent the class period sampling different types of olive oil with some delicious freshly baked bread. It was interesting because they all did taste a little different, I could mostly tell them apart based on how much "picado" or "bite/sting" they had in the back of my throat.

On Thursday I went to a play with my interest group called "Por los pelos", which is an interactive play. The general premise is that there are four people in a beauty shop, when their annoying, piano playing, upstairs neighbor gets killed. The police arrive and investigate the murder and the audience gets to ask questions and in the end decides who the murderer was. Although I didn't understand a lot of the words, I understood what was going on and it was still a very funny play.

After the play Allison, Kate and I went out looking for a place to eat because the play started at 8 PM and didn't get over until 11 PM, which meant we had missed dinner at home. The only problem was there weren't a lot of choices of places to eat dinner at 11:30 on a Thursday, unless we wanted McDonalds. We were all so hungry this was tempting for a moment, but we finally stumbled upon an Italian restaurant, which sounded good to us all so we looked no further. We enjoyed some really great pizza and pasta and then called it a night.

This weekend I am not traveling anywhere, and am just relaxing in Sevilla. I spent a lot of time sleeping on Friday, catching up from my busy week and today I went for a run and sat by the river for a few hours soaking up the sun.

I am planning on doing some site-seeing later, maybe some plazas or museums and fitting in some time to drink some cafe and do my mountains of homework.