la vida espana

Spanish life is very different and we are learning fast. The people here are very relaxed, absolutely nothing is open on sundays. The most interesting part about the life here is la siesta. Everyday at about 2 everything closes down for about 3 hours. People go home, eat and relax for about 3 hours. My parents work from 9-2 or 10-2 and then come home for siesta n go back to work from like 5-830. Its interesting, no go on portugal is it very difficult to get to lisbon without flying and the flights are all over 200 euro. Which would be about 300 dollars, definitely not worth it for a weekend trip. We had our placement exams today and it went OK. Im actually hoping im in the beginner class. Beginner here is like intermediate or advanced at home i swear lol. We also have 100 hours for our internship and we have to do 50 hours of community service. No one really expected this and some arent very happy because this does not leave much time to relax, experience, and travel. Hopefully something will change, but then again maybe it will add to the experience. The main places i want to travel are Italy, London, Barcelona, and Madrid. Lets hope we get to all those places. London next month i hope! My family is very hard to understand, they only speak spanish to me directly, otherwise they use the local language Gallego when they speak to eachother. It is very hard to understand and i never know what the are saying, hopefully it gets easier! Things are good over here though for the most part!