Salamanca >>>>> Where you live

The last few days have probably been the best since I got here.

I finally feel I have settled into lessons and got a lot of things sorted such as an appointment to 'matricularme' (hand in my module choice) which was hanging over me for a while but I finally feel we are making progress.

For one of my classes the teacher Javier reminds me of my old Spanish teacher (John) as he is so funny and interesting and every lesson he has the whole class in stitches and he makes the subject really interesting.

I am really enjoying Catalan aswell, Jo sóc Stephen (I am Stephen) as you can see I'm not that good yet but give it time!

I'm really enjoying meeting people from all different places, I feel like I have learnt so much from so many different people, the majority of us get on as if we had known each other all our lives instead of 4/5 weeks. However it is still nice when you walk down the street and hear someone speaking English or hear an English person struggling to ask for something in a bar/shop, and its also so cute when Eva talks Spanish with her hot Italian accent!

On Wednesday after lessons (which finished at 9pm) tom, Rachel and I went for Tapas with Renske (A dutch girl) and Astrid (from Denmark) and watched a bit of the Real Madrid game, however the two girs called it a night quite early so Tom, Ray and I headed up Calle Van dyke (a long street full of tapas bars) and went to some trendy wine bar and met some English girls from the same part of London as Tom, scary.

On Thursday we had lessons during the day and then we went home to prepare for a big night out. Tom came round for Dinner and Julien made some French dish that I cannot spell for the life of me and we headed out about midnight.

The theme of the night was a school girl/teacher theme night which normally would not be my cup of tea, but we were in the VIP area drinking Champagne so it was a very good night.

I also won 3nd place on the sexiest school teacher award, god knows how!

Since we didn't get in till 6am on Friday morning that kind of wiped all of Friday out...or so I thought as Ángela phoned me and woke me up as she wanted to meet up (for those who dont know Ángela she is a girl from Ávila I met when I went on an exchange she has always been lovely with me and when Ray tay and I were here in May she showed us around and stuff) So I gave Tom a bell (Ray was still drunk and couldn't hack it) and we went off for dinner.

At night I cooked fajitas for about 15 people but someone complained about the noise so we had to leave where we went to The British Museum and Paniagua but I called it a night early as I was so tired from Thursday night.

Right now I'm going to have dinner then clean up as my parents, gran and sister arrive tomorrow and yes, I'm very excited!

PS - Caroline and Jack my Dad said you were reading so heres a little Hello for you! Take care.