After such a relaxing weekend, I wasn't looking forward to getting back to classes (especially knowing that everyone in the U.S. was off for Memorial Day)! But it was actually nice to be back in our routine, and classes were very interesting. In my Culture & Medicine class, we learned about La Peste Negra (The Black Death) and watched a really cool video. Did you know that the first evidence of biological warfare comes from the Middle Ages during the plague? Soldiers would catapult the bodies of infected soldiers into enemy camps to spread the disease to their enemies! Cool, right? After lunch on campus, Sam and I opted not to go shopping with some of the others in the group, and she took a nap while I did some reading! Then, we had a really special dinner! Remember my post last week about the Roman style dinner we had at the travel agency, Elit International? Well, dinner was there again, and this time we made our own PAELLA :) Paella is one of my favorite Spanish dishes, so I was really excited to make it for myself! Here is out final product... so awesome!
Today, our class schedule was a little bit different. They often divide all of the students into two groups based on the classes they are taking—a medical and a culture group. I, of course, am in the medical group. Today, the culture group went off on an excursion in town, and the medical group had a “conference” at school. Our university has great practical medical facilities, complete with equipment and dummies to practice all sorts of procedures. Today, we learned the Spanish terms for all kinds of medical equitpment and practiced CPR procedures (in Spanish) on a dummy. Luckily, my partner, Hannah, did everything right and I were able to save our dummy!!!
On Tuesdays, we also have an additional culture class in the afternoon, and today's topic was music! We learned about some popular Spanish artists and got to sing some of their songs. The class ended with a duet, with each half of the class singing one of the parts. It was so funny! And now I've been singing "Mi corazon.... sin tiiiiii" (My heart... without youuuu) stuck in my head all day...
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