The Pad and Futbol

Hey everyone!

Just got back from Soccer, man these spaniards are good! Cesar and I are playing well though, keeping up. Boy would I be lost without him. when I need him to translate, he pulls through. I'm not understanding most of the Spanish at practice, but when the drills start I catch on quick. The Spainsh here in Sevilla is weird though, they abbreviate words like buenos dias, they say buen dia; gracias is gracia; adios is adio. One of my teammates said he even has problems understanding his friends sometimes and that his mom can't understand the slang around here.

Today we played on an all dirt field and i'm glad we did, I got to experience playing on what most spaniard grew up playing on. It was really difficult to control the ball and move around, but I did start to get it and actually had a chance to score... it went wide... but all in all i'm learning.

Its a friendly bunch out there!

Talk soon! Hope all is well!
Adios!
1/21/16

 Quick look of our Place

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Comida es buenisimo

In the Beginning

Hello everyone, bear with me now as my writing skill are probably not even above average. I've now spent a little over a week in Sevilla and let me tell you, its a bit warmer than Wisconsin. Surprisingly it gets very cold at night, I wrap myself in blankets and turn on the space heater for the night. Last night I had my first Soccer practice with TRIANA C.F. (http://www.trianaclubdefutbol.es/) look em up. My skill level was around the middle of the pack as there were players who were better and worse than myself.

I've meet some cool people here at SAIIE, from the U.S. My Spanish is lacking slightly, well ok a lot. I'm starting to understand my host mother at all meal times. Boy oh boy is the food good here. The times are different around here, not only are we 7 hours ahead of home, but the day doesn't start till 10, mid day is 2pm and people are out till 2 in the morning normally and if they went to a club, they might not get back till 5 or 7 in the morning. Drinking is a norm around here, they don't drink to get drunk, its more about tasting the drinks. People go to the bars most day and grab a drink and a tappa, which is like an appetizer, some unique to each bar.

School is going well so far, its a little hard to understand the professors english as their native tongue is spanish. Its weird, when your professor doesn't know a word in english they can try to explain it to you in spanish and if you can somewhat understand their point in spanish then you can sometimes give them the word they are looking for in english.

Thats all for now adios,
time for a siesta
1/20/16