"Excuse me, to where is the shops to sell cards for calling international America?"

And you can guess what kind of response I had to that question. My Spanish comprehension skills are slowy inching up to a first grade level.


Anyway, I love Spain so far. I found people in the Santander program in the plane to Santander because it was such a small flight. So we found our luggage together and shared a cab to the hotel we were staying at. As soon as we arrived we checked in, dropped off our luggage in our rooms and went out in search of international calling cards. When we found them, we wanted to try and get rid of our jet-lag so we spend 13 Euros on a bus tour of Santander. Summer is an awesome season for Northern Spain. Everything is so green and humid but cool during the day.


Today I met my host family, and got in several hours practicing Spanish, because I showed them pictures and talked alot. It was kind of frustrating for all of us sometimes because I ruined some of the punch lines of Curro's jokes because I didn't understand. He pretty munch had to say them over again at least twice and sometimes we played a little pictionary to try and understand each other. But all in all I think it was pretty productive. They live in a very small apartment about a mile from the university, and have hosted for like 7 or 8 foreign exchange students before me. They are very nice, and so is mostly everyone else I've met in Spain so far.

Tomorrow I'm going to Pamplona with some of my friends I met on the plane :). We're taking a bus tomorrow evening. Before we leave tomorrow though we are going shopping to a store downtown where another student in the program said he found a white shirt and red scarf to wear to the Running of the Bulls. Apparently this is the proper attire for the Running of the Bulls because every picture I have seen everyone is wearing that. I guess, if I didn't, it would be like wearing a maroon shirt to a UT football game.