...not a lot.
Expect little and you will still feel disappointed.
I am now officially enrolled at university. Happy days, right? Wrong. Well, it's not all quite as bad as I may make it out to be sometimes, I like to over exaggerate these things.
So, enrollment didn't come without it's problems. It's looking likely that I'm gonna have to drop translation as they enrolled me to the wrong class which clashes with something else. I have to wait until Monday to be able to try and change the class, and if it's full by then (which it is likely to be) I'm gonna be stuck with 4 modules when I'm supposed to be doing 5. I am just really not willing to start a new course 6 weeks after university has started, imagine how hard it'd be to catch up on that work in England, let alone here?! It's not something I am going to do because of their crap organisation. Luckily my tutor says given the circumstances it should be fine. Maybe all will for once go in my favour and I can do it. We'll see!
I have also enrolled into a Spanish course. I got sick of being in Spain and not actually be able to study and Spanish as an Erasmus student. Turns out you can but it comes with a price tag. These classes were ideal as they only started a week or so before I went to take the test so I wouldn't have missed 5 weeks worth like in the uni. Although it is part of Universidad de Granada, it's in the Centro de Lenguas Modernas. The building is beautiful, it's in the Jewish area of the city so maybe the building is an old Jewish one. It's certainly nicer than Cartuja. You have to take a test to find out your level and the level you get determines how much you pay. Level 1-5 pay 140 euros (i think) and level 6-9 pay 350 euros. I got a level 6 so it's a lot of money for only 3 months teaching but it's what I actually enjoy and that classes are SO much better. It counts as 6 credits too so it's just like any other module (but better). Hopefully I'll be able to do it next term too.
In my Catalan class we also have a potential trip to Frankfurt in March. The Catalan Association of Teachers and Students (I made that up, it's something like that though) holds 3 different conventions a year throughout Europe and we've been invited to the one in Frankfurt. It's only for a few days and they take us on tours of the city and cultural exhibitions and all that sort of stuff. I'd like to go but it depends how much it costs to whether I put my name down for it. It'd be nice to go to Germany and visit my helga roots. I was born in Germany so I basically AM German.
This week I also finally met up with my UGR buddy (we get assigned one to help us with whatever we need). She took us to the coolest bar/cafe. Untypically Spanish, but an extremely cool jazz bar. It's not possible to describe how good it is. I'll definitely be taking my next visitors there. It was nice to finally meet and get to know each other.
So apart from a few ever occurring mishaps at UGR all is well. Every time I think the weather is cooling down it suddenly surprises me the next day and hits mid 20s. When is it actually going to get cold? Soon, I hope. I want to buy my new winter coat and boots (and jumpers and scarves)! My weeks feel like they have been less busy recently, I don't have a trip planned which makes me sad. That said, I do have 2 visitors coming in the next month. Emily comes in 2 weeks, then Tara 2 weeks after! Yippee. More visitors are welcome. There is a new requirement though, thanks to my Nan bringing me enough tea bags to last a whole year, all I require now is more porridge and sweet chilli sauce. I'm also hoping to do a few language intercambios with Spanish people next week so hopefully that goes well.
Tonight I'm off out for Japanese food. When in Spain, try sushi (obviously).
Chao for now,
Ellie
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