¡Hola mi familia y mis amigos!
I hope all is well wherever you might be reading this blog. Spain is amazing. Today the weather was beautiful. It was probably in the 60s but warm enough to go hang out on the beach, which is what a bunch of us did! We sprawled out on blankets, stuck our toes in the sand, and relaxed on a beautiful Sunday afternoon. Two guys played guitars so we sang along to tunes like Bon Jovi´s Living on a Prayer and some other popular tunes (for Americans).
I don´t remember if I posted this but on Friday a group of us climbed way up in the skies to the castle (El Castillo de Santa Bárbara) that overlooks Alicante. It was beautiful!! Pictures should be loaded.
Anoche, I hung out with some people from a church in Alicante - I think it was a Baptist church, I´ll come up with the name eventually. It was SO much fun. This is the first time that I have really met Spaniards and been able to hang out/converse with them. It was a wonderful opportunity to practice my Spanish!! It was actually quite comical. Some of them spoke a few words of English but I made many mistakes. Sometimes they corrected me and other times we just had a good laugh. The people here are so friendly! The students at the Church were from many places such as Ecuador, Peru, and even Germany. It is amazing how much travelling they are able to do because everything is so close. Some have even lived in the States for awhile!
Anyways then this morning I went to the actual service at the same church. It was very similar to the churches I attend back in the States (except in Spanish, of course). The singing was very similar and I could understand the songs. The sermon was hard to understand because the pastor spoke so rapidly but they had the Bible verses on the screen so I could translate that easily. I think I got the general ¨gist¨ of the message. I will definitely go back again.
Tomorrow starts my first full week of school. I am excited to go and learn more but nervous because I am still not very strong in my Spanish. But as the saying goes... Practice makes Perfect (or close to it, in my case).
Well I´m off to watch some news with my host family. ¡Adios! ¡Hasta luego!
Con todo mi cariño,
Sarah
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