Yesterday, my classes both involved getting out of the classroom. We went to the Mercado Central for my culture class where it is a huge indoor market with a ton of booths selling anything and everything. Tons of fresh fruit, veggies, nuts, meat, seafood, and things like that. I bought some strawberries, eggs, veggies, cherries, and dried strawberries and bananas. They all look sooo much better than from the supermarket. But the meat looks really gross, as it all still has the full body including eyes and feet, so I stayed away from that.

In my Dance in Movies class we watched a short film about a bus driver and his gypsy passengers who regularly start dancing flamenco. Then we went to a cafe to discuss the film. I had the Hot Chocolate which was absolutely amazing! Much thinker than hot chocolate at home. It was rich and silky and just overall amazing!

Last night we had a social event to go out and talk with Spanish people. Almost the whole group went to this bar/club where there was a lot of dancing and music and a lot of people. It was a lot of fun. I took pictures with all the people I talked with as proof I actually spoke with Spanish people. They were all friends of the lady who directs all the activities here, so they were all nice people who wanted to help us with our Spanish in exchange for helping them with their English. It was a lot of fun! I love how different Spanish dancing is than American dancing. Spanish is a lot more fun and a lot less... a lot less like ours... It is also interesting how Spanish people greet with a kiss on each cheek if it is a male and a female or 2 females (2 males shake hands). I was taught that you kiss the left cheek then the right in Spain, but the right then the left in Italy. I also learned that saying "Mucho Gusto" as they teach us in school is very proper and way outdated and that we should say "Que Tal" instead. Very interesting and fun night.

Today we had to get up early to go the City of Arts and Sciences (just a few miles away) which has a bunch of really cool looking buildings. We went into the Science Museum with a lot of cool interactive exhibits for a few hours which was fun. They had a lot of digital exibits where you interact with things using greenscreen, 3D imaging, and other fun activities that are similar to the stuff you can do on a WiiFit. Next, we went to the Aquarium which was really cool! They had many different exibits that went through different waters of the world. The beluga whales were definately my favorite. When we walked downstairs to look through the tank window, one of the two belugas stayed right outside the window and made faces at us and waved his fin for about 5 minutes. I have the feeling they are trained to do that. It looked like it was having fun interacting with us, and everyone watching loved it! Afterwards we watched a really cool dolphin show. The dolphins are so smart and it's really neat to see all that they can do. When we left there, I went with a few people to go to a mall accross the street that had a store similar to a Super Walmart because we needed to pick up a few things. Then we took the bus back. It was a really fun day :)