Life in Bilbao
Wow! I said I was going to update more often, but apparently that is just not the case. I seem too busy to even get to the computer, let alone take the time to relate my resent acctivity. Not that I´m complaining, life is good, life is crazy, and I love the Basque Country. It feels like I´ve been here for three months already, even though it has only been a few weeks.
Lets see now what have I done since I´ve been here... lots... I´ll start with buying my costume for carnival, which is this weekend. There was a large ERASMUS party last night, it consisted on a whole bunch of the foriegn students from university having a great time dancing and getting the chance to meet one another. Italians are my favorite... or mabye Brazilians... French people are cool too... and Germans... okay I liked everybody ;)
I´ve gone to the beach, which is about a thirty minute metro ride away, and that was amazing and beautiful, everything a beach should be. Including the acward, lone, nude man and lots of surfers. Another day I got to go climbing outside for the first time. The place is one of the many incredible places to climb withing 45 minutes of Bilbao. My friend David and I met up with a Danish girl, a German guy, and two Finish folk who climb often and had ropes and harnises. It was so much fun! I loved it and didn´t do as badly as I thought I would, considering I haven´t been climbing in many months.
The group of Americans in my program went on a day trip to Guernika. It is a smallish village about 45 minutes away with loads of history some great musuems and great archetecture. I stayed after everyone else left and took a bunch of photos and wandered the streets.
My spainish is improving very quickly. Though it is still way easier to understand it than speak it. Classes have been interesting it is difficult to understand the profesors when the lecture, because they use so many idioms and obscure words with multiple meanings. All of them, however, have been extremely nice about explaining things again, more slowely to the forgein kids. The photo department and UPV is incredible. I couldn´t believe my eyes when one of my profesors gave Emilia and I the grand tour, after discovering we are foreign. I´ve done alot of waiting for buses, they are never on time and show up at any one of three different stops in Erandio. It is slightly confusing. It´s okay though because spanish people, including the profesors, don´t take time so seriously. Alot of the profesors didn´t even show up this first week.
Well I should probably cut this off, I have to go get ready for carnival towmarrow and work on my first art project. I hope everyong is well, I miss everyong So much.
Auel (Basque for bye)
Lets see now what have I done since I´ve been here... lots... I´ll start with buying my costume for carnival, which is this weekend. There was a large ERASMUS party last night, it consisted on a whole bunch of the foriegn students from university having a great time dancing and getting the chance to meet one another. Italians are my favorite... or mabye Brazilians... French people are cool too... and Germans... okay I liked everybody ;)
I´ve gone to the beach, which is about a thirty minute metro ride away, and that was amazing and beautiful, everything a beach should be. Including the acward, lone, nude man and lots of surfers. Another day I got to go climbing outside for the first time. The place is one of the many incredible places to climb withing 45 minutes of Bilbao. My friend David and I met up with a Danish girl, a German guy, and two Finish folk who climb often and had ropes and harnises. It was so much fun! I loved it and didn´t do as badly as I thought I would, considering I haven´t been climbing in many months.
The group of Americans in my program went on a day trip to Guernika. It is a smallish village about 45 minutes away with loads of history some great musuems and great archetecture. I stayed after everyone else left and took a bunch of photos and wandered the streets.
My spainish is improving very quickly. Though it is still way easier to understand it than speak it. Classes have been interesting it is difficult to understand the profesors when the lecture, because they use so many idioms and obscure words with multiple meanings. All of them, however, have been extremely nice about explaining things again, more slowely to the forgein kids. The photo department and UPV is incredible. I couldn´t believe my eyes when one of my profesors gave Emilia and I the grand tour, after discovering we are foreign. I´ve done alot of waiting for buses, they are never on time and show up at any one of three different stops in Erandio. It is slightly confusing. It´s okay though because spanish people, including the profesors, don´t take time so seriously. Alot of the profesors didn´t even show up this first week.
Well I should probably cut this off, I have to go get ready for carnival towmarrow and work on my first art project. I hope everyong is well, I miss everyong So much.
Auel (Basque for bye)