España 2011: A Beautiful Sunset Amongst Exams!

My apologies! It has been almost two weeks since I last wrote, but do not fret, this is the first of two blog posts to come in the next few days. Therefore, I will do a quick recap of the past two weeks. After finally recovering my half marathon I went paint balling with my intercambio and some of his friends. It was quite a bit of fun because we went up in the mountains. However, I was absolutely horrible and had possibly the worst aim ever. After playing for about two hours one of his friends invited us back to her house in a small town around Granada to have lunch. All of his friends were older than him due to the fact that he knew most of them from his cross-country ski club. Therefore, I spent the afternoon with a bunch of 30 and 40 year olds but it was most definitely very enjoyable. However, my intercambio was the only one that spoke English therefore I got quite a bit of practice that afternoon. That same weekend I also went to the movie theater twice with my friends. The first time I saw The Help and then I saw a Spanish movie named Eva. I would highly recommend Eva. Going to the movies made me feel pretty good about myself because I was actually able to understand the majority of the Spanish! :)

The past few weeks also brought a lot of stress because I had my midterms and I took the DELE. The DELE is a test given by the Spanish government. If you can pass the exam, the Spanish government claims that you are fluent in Spanish at the certain level you took. I will receive my results in February but I am hoping that it went well. One of the best parts about last week is that I went up into the Albyzine with some friends for the sunset overlooking the Alhambra. It was absolutely beautiful and it reminded me of how lucky I am to be having this experience in Spain. Thus far it has very nearly been perfect and I would not change any part of it. Look at my pictures below and be looking out for my next blog entry either tomorrow or Wednesday about this past weekend when I went to Sevilla with my program. Miss you all!