Llamadas

I started Spanish classes this week.  It's going to be very hard!  But it'll be good (hopefully)  She doesn't talk in English at all and I have a hard time understanding her most of the time...but she says that I'll understand better soon.  Hopefully!  The classes are interesting though (when I can understand what's going on that is.)

Earlier this week we had a Candombe workshop.  Candombe is a type of dancing here.  It's roots are in the slaves that came from Africa.  Well we learned (or tried to learn) Candombe and learned a lot about it.  Thursday we got to go to a parade where all the groups were Candombe groups.  It's called Llamadas and is a part of the Carnaval celebrations here in Uruguay.  It was a cool parade but I was sure tired after it was done.

I'm not sure what all super interesting has been going on other than that.  I mean they're school and homework and friends.  We did have a movie night last night!  I mean we're getting to know each other better all the time.  We had a very interesting discussion the other day about whether we would do Sing Song or not.  Sing Song is a show that the university puts on every year and study abroad groups can send in a video.  At the beginning we were a bit more excited about it, had it written, and were going to film it in the airport.  Well sleeping seemed like a better idea than filming a video and since we've been here that's not what we've wanted to do.  Lyrics were due so we had to decide if we would do it and let's say not everyone wants to do it.  So there was an interesting split between the ones who wanted to and who didn't and it was quite funny.  I mean all in good fun.  I don't think we'll do it.  We have to have the video sent in by the 11th and I don't think we're going to get on that.

Today is going to be homework day for me.  I want to get caught up and don't really have anything to do until tonight.  Most people are needing to catch up on homework anyway.

I guess that's it for now.