Tibidabo

Something I was discussing with Laura, one of the girls in my group, is how we feel like we've regressed all of a sudden. For about a week, we felt that our Spanish was steadily improving, and now it's as though we've taken a step back, or possibly we've hit a wall in our knowledge. It's frustrating, because the desire to communicate (and communicate well) is very strong, but our comprehension is limited. I worry that I'll never improve beyond a certain, still very basic point. Of course I'll keep working, listening, and speaking, but I do get down on myself sometimes.

On Saturday, Aimee and I went to Tibidabo, a mountain in Barcelona with some very nice houses and an amusement park sitting on top of it. We took an underground tram and two more trams to the top. Thank goodness for Aimee, or I would have stopped at the third tram. The amusement park is pretty basic, a stripped down kiddy land. What you go for is the views, or the fact that you're on a roller coaster on the side of a mountain. There is a church at the top, which had earlier hosted a wedding and was still covered in rose petals. It was a good trip, not too touristy and very picturesque. Today we had our first classes, which for me was Contemporary Spanish Novels. Tomorrow I have Art and Grammar. Looks like I'm in school again.

I finished The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and I'm starting Cloud Atlas.