Experiences

Ok so this is a little less about what's been happening and more of just something to write, so if you aren't interested this is your warning just to skip over this entry.

Almost everyone here i've talked to throws out the phrase, "I'm here primarily to experience, absorb, and learn the culture!" and recently I realized that we all have extremely different definitions of what that means and how one plans to go about doing it. In fact friend groups seem to be forming based on shared definitions of the phrase, although that is simply a side note and irrelevant.

I can take a class on Cervantes at Bates. I can learn grammar from a textbook. What i can't learn is how Spaniards speak in day to day life. I can't learn what living in Sevilla is really like from any book. And I can't know the people i'm with in a classroom. While I seem to be denying the validity of the other reasons for being here, that is the furthest thing from my intentions. At least now it's clear where I stand. I know a lot of us are in this same boat, and if there are more I don't know come on let's go get it done!