One week! I can't believe the first week has already gone by! After our 2 hour walking tour Saturday we had a little competitive scavenger hunt. We were given a list of 20 things to find and take pictures of around Sevilla. It was super fun-my group (including my new friends Kat, Emily, Daniel, Andy, and Elizabeth) took a bus to church first-which was an interesting experience since I don't know how to use a bus in the US...we eventually got to the church about half an hour late and realized when we got there that the door entered into the very front of the sanctuary next to the stage and all the chairs of the congregation faced it-hola! haha. The person speaking kind of just stopped in the middle of what he was saying and asked if we spoke Spanish and where we were from and then afterwards the pastor and some other members of the congregation came and talked to us. And then they started helping us find places on our map for our scavenger hunt! So we set off to find our first location-and we walked and walked and walked all over for the whole day finding places (and some that weren't on the list too!). My feet have never been so sore...

I have almost finished my first week of classes here-I'm really hoping that I'm not signed up for too many, but we'll see how it goes. I am taking to literature classes (one is Don Quijote, and the other is Hispanic-American lit) and a grammar class, and art history. The school also offers a class called Accion Solidaria-which is a volunteer/service kind of class, so I'm going to be working with some other Spaniards and people from the program with homeless people (or gente sin hogar).

Here's some pictures from the scavenger hunt:

Trying to figure out how to take the bus to get to church.

Getting help and directions from our amigos nuevos.

The whole team in La Plaza de Espana.

We've also found a couple playgrounds in some of the parks, and the play equipment is different! We're not quite sure how to use it all, so we've been trying to observe Spanish children at play. After watching a boy on this spinning thing, we figured out how to use it: