MARISCOS... AHHHH

So last week went pretty well. Classes fly by when they end on thursdays. I started my internship and its very difficult mostly due to the language. The spanish words are similar to english words however the pronuncation is very difficult for me to understand. They all speak english which is helpful when I really cant understand what they are saying but hopefully that will get easier. Basically we are trying to identify the gene that determines sex in a small fish. So we are doing different experiments with that. Its been cool so far and the people are very relaxed so i can basically come and go as i please to do my hours. which means i will not ever be there on fridays :). we start our volunteering this tuesday so hopefully that goes well. Classes last week were good varieties of spanish will be the death of me tho I swear, so boring. The kick about that one is that its our elective lol, good choice.
Everyday I come home from class around 2 praying that I'm not gona walk in and smell fish or seafood. Tuesday was that day, when I was called for lunch and walked into the kitchen I about had a heart attack. There was fish, shrimp, and some sort of clam looking thing. I ate the fish somehow, I decided I would try the shrimp. And first let me explain this is not shrimp like in the United States, they are legit the animal. SO I had to pull off the head and then get the meat out and eat it. My dad was showing me how to do it, so I pulled the head off and then I almost cried I think so thats all the further I got. And there was no chance I was going to eat the thing with the shell. So I think its safe to say that they wont be making any of that again soon. My face probably said enough, im guessing it looked like what our program director looks like when she tries to speak english, painful.
Saturday we went to a nearby town called Vigo. It was really sunny out but not very warm. And speaking of sun, one night I left my umbrella at a dance club and its only really rained once since then, Im never going to pick it up, haha. Anyways, back to Vigo, I really liked it. The water was beautiful and the gardens were even better. Next weekend a few of us are going to Ourense another town close to here, there are natural hot springs! So thats going to be awesome. We also booked our flights to Madrid for next month, I cannot wait. My spanish isnt really better yet, we REALLY need to stop speaking english to eachother or A. we will never meet anyone because we are the foreign freaks in the corner speaking their own language and B. we will never get any better. So thats basically everything for the past week. Everyone take care and stay tuned!