Have a Nice Chair and the Killer Fruit

Aka my first day of school. Actually the day went much better than expected, I´ve heard a lot from different people how the Spanish are slow to warm up to people but that was not my experience. Everyone in my classes was very welcoming (and entertained by my foriegnness and not understanding nearly anything lol). In my class (which I have every subject except with except for Industrial Technology, because some people have Biology and others have technical drawing) there are only 5 other girls! Although that is sort of weird (given that there are other THIRTY people in my class) it´s also nice for me because it means that all the girls stick together. In addition a lot of people are coming to this school for the first time, and its the first time that people seperate themselves out by what they are goin to study in university, so everyone isn´t already farmiliar with themselves. From what I could understand in my classes (not to terribly much lol :) ) they were mostly the same as the first day in the US. Except for last period. Oh man lol, I don´t know what the subject was supposed to be (and neither did any of the kids I asked, something like Social world living or some random thing...I don´t know) but the teacher didn´t seem to either. And I believe she said she didn´t want to be there, and she had absouletely no control over the class (becasue she had nothing interesting to say, no one would listen of course!) finally, after she attempted to start introductions and failed, a Student stood up. I don´t know his name yet, but he was very helpful and kind to me today, he was an exchange student in Michigan last year, so he was able to translate and related to my complete confusion :). So when he stood up, he walked to the front of the class room, nudged the teacher from where she was sitting, and told her to sit down. She obliged, laughing, and took his seat. He then took the roll list from her, went to the front and pretended to be the professor for the last 20minutes fo the period, and through that he actually managed to lead introductions, in addition to providing a lot of entertainment for all. I was laughing nearly all the way home :D.

After school I went shopping with Carmen. At one of the stores called ´Nice Day Nice Things´ there were shirts that said all kinds of things that didn´t really make sense in English using the word nice and lots of fish (your guess is as good as mine about why lots of shirts had fish on them! lol). There were also a lot of shirts with chairs on them that said ´Have a Nice Chair´I found it sound so amusing that I had to buy the button to add to my Rotary jacket. When I got home I organized all the school supplies that I had bought, then Juan decided to go to the Grocery store and I accomanied him. Man was it nice to by some food that seems farmiliar and that will be quick for eating (like SOY MILK :=) and cookies and juice to take as snacks for break at school, Lunch is at home at 2:30 when I get home, School is out at 2, then I have a 25min walk). There are a lot of strange new things here that I have to ask what they are, not only in the prepackaged things, but fruits and vegetables too. In the kitchen I pointed to a bowl of green fruit like things with darker green poky spots and Juan scream ¨DON´T TOUCH THOSE!¨of course I was quite confused. Then he offered me one...which added to my confusion. I accepted and he carefully stabbed it with a fork as he brough it the counter to cut. It turns out that they are not actually poisnouss, and not Killer Fruit either :). They are cactus fruit and have little thorns on them that apperently hurt a lot if they get in your finger.

I´m not sure if that made very much sense, my brain is quite exhausted from all the Spanish today, I hope you enoyed it anyway!
Peace out for now,
Molly