Two days in school!

I´ve been in school for two days now and I´m loving it!  The school works on a 4 week schedule and I came during week 4, so everyone here (almost everyone) is in a set class already and is leaving in a few days.  Since I´m here at an off time, I´m doing one on one classes for the week and then I start in with a new group of students in a class next week.

The classes are great.  My teacher (Sylvia) is super cool and a great teacher.  Because it´s one-one and I have specific goals, she is catering the entire course to my needs, which is awesome.  I have 4 hours of one on one each day, where we do a lot of talking, some writing, some reading, and some listening to CDs of news, etc...  I definitely have a long way to go to where I want to be language wise, but my Spanish has come back pretty well so far.

After the 4 hours of class, we have 1.5 hours for lunch at one of two restaurants - one is a vegi restaurant and the other is a mexican buffet.  The buffet was okay, but the vegi place is awesome!  It basically has vegi versions of all of the regular mex foods that you can think of plus many that I´ve never heard of.

After lunch we all go to the Zocalo (the main square) and meet up with "guides" who are college students from the nearby university.  Each student is assigned to a guide for the week and you can do anything you want with them.  Yesterday, my guide and I just walked around the city and saw all of the main churches, etc...  Today we we a bit more focused and went to an ex-convent and a crazy church...  It´s a great time because you just get to chat for 2 hours without worry AND you get a guide around the town, whcih is really nice.

And then I have homework each night, which is tiring, but great as well - I certainly need more practice, so homework helps.

Anyway, that´s all for now, but more later!