Alicante

¡Hola!  Estoy en Alicante.  Es una ciudad bonita.
English...
I am in Alicante!  It is amazing and beautiful and perfect.  I stayed with my host family the very first night.  They are wonderful.  Feli is my host mother and Alba is her daughter.  They are so kinda, loving, gracious, and patient.  The first day was very overwelming with all the Spanish.  It was difficult to keep up.  But now we are having actual conversations in Spanish, like around the dinner table for instance.
Life is very different here.  Everyone eats lunch around 2 or 3 and then takes a siesta - even some of the stores close for a bit.  My family eats dinner around 9 or 930.  Very late.  But I am used to it by now.
Tomorrow is my first day of classes at the University of Alicante.  I am taking 3 Spanish classes, a Spanish conversation course, Government and Politics of Spain, and finally, Spanish Culture and Civiliation.  17 credits in all.  Only one class is in English.  But that is the way I prefer it because I am learning so much more just struggling through.
We have done so much already.  We have explored, went to the beach (la playa), and today I went shopping for a bit because I didn´t bring very many warm clothes.  It is in the 50s and 60s here now.  I even bought a hairdryer (un secador) which I like better than my US one!
The food here is wonderful, although it took my stomach a few days to get used to it.  Feli is a wonderful cook and I cannot wait until she teaches me.  Right now I am learning all the ingredients names!  I have a book where I write all the new words I learn in... it is going to be very big by the time I come home in June.
I am going to post a few pictures but if you have facebook that is the best way to view my albums.  I do not have a lot of time to put pictures on both facebook and this blog.  There is SOOOO much to do and so much to learn!  Spain is absolutely wonderful.  I couldn´t ask  for a better atmosphere or a better host family.  They seriously are the best!  Right now they are watching television before bed so I better get going.
Hope this post finds everyone well in the States!
Love,
Sarah


PS Actually I am not going to post pictures because it is taking forever to load... So I will try something different another time... Sorry about the wait.  I am sure you are all in anticipation! haha :)