Oops

Oops...didn't get too much homework done today. I went to the river and wrote about half an essay, then got a text from Alberto saying they were at the river, so I spent the rest of the day trying to keep up with all the bromas (jokes) and accents in their conversations. That's totally a form of studying since I spoke/listened to Spanish all day. One of the fun parts is that a few of the people I was hanging out with barely speak English at all, so sometimes they ask me to speak in English to see if they can understand me, and usually they can't! So i don't feel so bad when I can't understand certain things in Spanish, because I can still communicate much better than they can in another language. It's a small triumph for me. One of the guys who asked me to speak English got this completely blank look on his face when I started talking, which I'm sure is a look that occurs all too often on my face here. Now back to warky-wark. I have to analyze a poem by Rosalia de Castro, a Galician poet known for beautiful, but depressing poetry. I also have to write a very short "autobiography" of myself based one the themes of Antonio Machado's Retrato. Not so bad...now I'm just procrastinating.