After 2 very busy weeks I'm back to my "normal life" here in Cádiz. During these weeks my parents have been here to visit. We've had a great time, it felt really good to see them for the first time in 3 months! I've been showing them Cádiz, we've been eating out, been to the beach, walking around, having a spa day at the hotel, been to el Puerto de Santa Maria, Jerez and Torre Tavira. Ofc, during all this time I've also been in school daytime which have made it all a very busy time which I loved!

3 (almost 4) weeks at the school have now passed by. I really like this school, I learn the things that I didn't in Mallorca because it was going to fast there, and now I feel more confident with my spanish. Here in Cádiz it also feels like we're talking more about things outside the classroom since half of the classes is conversation and we can speak about anything. We learn about each other, the spanish culture and we are forced to speak since we the last couple of weeks only been 2-3 students in the class. So be in school 4 hours a day is amazing and during the break we normally sit outside in the sun and having some fruit. I really like it here but since there aren't so many people here I've been missing my boyfriend, friends and family even more than before. 

Here in Spain it's hard to watch TV or go to the cinema if you don't speak spanish. In the cinema here it's most likely english subtitle, but if you're used to watch movies in their original language it'll just be horrible to hear another language and voice all the time. I normally go to the cinema a lot back home, at least one time a month, and I'm actually starting to miss it a lot, especially since there seems to be so many great movies on now! I'm really happy that there was a cinema in Mallorca which showed movies in the original language and that we went to see The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel! The movie was really great! Right now I so wish there was a cinema like that here in Cádiz, I want it even more now when there are not so many people in school... I would want to see The Hunger Games, Mirror Mirror and The Vow, all of them seem to be absolutely amazing!

But with the beach not too far away I should not complain at all. But who wants to go to the beach when it's raining....? Well I don't, I want to be home in bed or the sofa with a blanket and watch a great movie. I will definitely watch a lot of movies when I get home, movie nights with friends, boyfriend and family are amazing. I knew that before, but with not being able to do it for a while, you realize even more what you appreciate the most!

I needed this week to get used to the new place, school and apartment.

When you are reading this I'm on my way to a new location in Spain. I'm looking forward to all the new adventures, the new school and people. I know a lot more spanish now than I did when I first got to Mallorca in february, but I hope to learn sooo much more!

International House in Palma was way different than I thought it would be. In their brochure they had written down things that I was really looking forward to, but it turned out that what was in the brochure was not what the school offered which made me really disappointed.
What I knew was that I was doing a standard course in spanish, but when I got to Mallorca it turned out they didn't have any standard courses, only an intensive course. I really got the wrong information. I've worked hard to be able to go on this trip and it took me a year to decide where to go and all the details about it, and all my decisions, I made specificly because of the information I had gotten. Therefore i hope for a bit more of that in the school I will go to now, from start tomorrow!
Even though I got disappointed of the school I've had a great time here in Mallorca. I have visit places I hadn't been before, spent time with amazing people and been really happy because it has been springtime since february! I will come back, Mallorca has been my second home during the last year and that hasn't changed!

My last weekend before leaving Mallorca turned out to be really good.
We watched the Tintin movie (which was good, I recommend it!), went to Palma Nova and Porto Pi. We had lunch in Pizza Hut one day, played some pool and bowling.
During the sunday it rained a lot, but we were lucky enough to go on the dog walk when the rain stopped for an hour! It was also lots of thunder and lightning during the day, so we ended up playing games and watch some TV series. I'm crazy about The Big Bang Theory and Hawaii 5 0, I mean how can you not be?

The last week of school here in Mallorca started a couple of days ago. They put two groups together and for me who were in the lower one it's more difficult now which I don't really like. It's already a very intense course, which I actually had no idea about when going here, and make it even harder is just not a great idea. But then again, there is a lot of things that have happened which I didn't expect at all, but I guess that's called life. Right now I feel like a need a vacation, but hopefully a change of location will be as good! :)

Today I have finished week number 7 of my weeks of school here in Spain. That week number 7 is over means I only have 1 week left here in Mallorca. Next sunday = another location in Spain, exciting!

This week has been very busy, even though monday was easter and a day off school. That day I was out by the pool trying to get some tan and yes, it actually worked a little bit, so now I don't look at some ghost everytime I look in the mirror.
This week I've been to porto pi, a shopping mall, and found absolutely nothing. To be honest it just felt like a waste of time but I guess it's like that sometimes. At least I saved a lot of money and that means I can have lots of fun now, right? This week we've also been celebrating a birthday, went to the cinema to see The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (which was a great movie, see it!), been to a very good galician restaurante and yesterday we went to the easter fair. I used to go to the tivoli Gröna Lund almost every year back home, until i turned 16 or something, and I used to love it. I loved the easter fair but to be honest, I was so scared of all the big rides, they were absolutely horrible. I think I'm too old for those kind of rides but I don't really mind. I loved the funny one, it reminded me of "Lustiga huset" back home (for all of you who knows about it). What I really loved about this fair was the feeling, the people and of course, the famous churros. Churros is a special snack here in Spain, tastes a bit like donuts but not exactly the same. It's really worth trying and if I would get to chance to have them again I definitely would!

Now the weekend has started and I'm not sure of the plans. I want to relax, spend a lot of time with my other half, maybe watch some movies and try to get some tan if the sun shows.

Here in Spain it's just a bit less than 20 degrees today, it's sunny but it also has been raining a bit. I seriously can't complain at all, especielly since I heard it is going to be snow in Sweden during easter! I feel so lucky to be in Spain right now. I mean I like snow, during wintertime like november-february, not in april.

Yesterday I finished the second book in school and had the second test. It's going really fast, much faster than I ever thought, but it feels like I'm doing okay. I know I'm learning, mostly because I sometimes just answer things in spanish (only easy stuff ofc) but also because I'm not translating everything in my head anymore and someone once told me that when you stop doing that and when you start dreaming in another language, you're actually doing pretty good! There is no school until tuesday because of easter and to be honest, it's feels good. I need to clear my head a bit, go through everything we've done for the past couple of weeks and just get the last things into my head properly.

I'm spending this weekend with my other half, playing games, having lunch/dinner with friends, hopefully see a couple of movies and just relaxing a bit. If it get hot enough I'll go out to the pool in a bikini and trying to get some tan, feels like I really need that!