How Unfortunate

I cannot write everything I want to right now, due to circumstances beyond my control (lack of internet at my house, limited time-frame to use it at the study center, 40 min walk to class and then back home...).

Real quick, here are a few thoughts to leave you with until I share a thorough and detailed post.

It's hot here. Super hot. So hot that after my 40 minute walk to class at the hottest time of the day (while we're supposed to be taking siesta), I am drenched in sweat. How embarrassing! But my justification is that it was 102 F. Enough said.

I started running at night. It's glorious. My host dad really likes this idea. He's very athletic. 

Claire needed her coffee fix on Monday, so we stopped in a Starbucks. While speaking Spanish to one another, a man asked us if we were speaking English. We said that we do speak English, but we currently were not. He told us he was from LA, taught science at a middle school for 18 years, and explained that Mexico was the best place to go to learn Spanish because the people are welcoming and it's only dangerous at the border. When he asked us if we were  traveling, and we explained that we were studying here for a semester, he asked if we were Mormon...What on earth does being Mormon have to do with studying abroad in Spain and taking an intensive grammar course being our regular classes start?! We asked. He said that "Mormons do that. The intensive stuff." We left quickly thereafter. We did not like him. He was ignorant. And obnoxious. We learned our lesson. Don't go to Starbucks in other countries. 

Yesterday, we discovered Sevilla's version of H&M. Did we hit the jackpot? I'd say so. 

I still need shoes. 

I'm still eating well. Perhaps too well.