Oficial students of University of Zaragoza!

The third week has started and we finally seem to get into a routine. Moreover, we are now officially matriculated and have chosen our final subjects, yaaaay! However, we are still not able to access all our subjects on Blackboard (here called Moodle); only one is accessible, which makes life a little harder. Especially, when you need to hand in assignments or make presentations and you do not even have the most basic information about it. Moreover, nobody showed us how to use the Blackboard or the email account and Marie remembers that at Stenden she did an introduction to Blackboard and all that with the new Erasmus students....ANYWAY we managed to do so, but it would be nice if there was a little help sometimes, but so far we are doing well! Also, we must correct one of our statements, as we mentioned that Spanish people tend to be a little slow...Our Spanish statistics teacher is very fast!!! The exercises are not difficult, but she simply runs through them and it is difficult to keep up, especially as it is in Spanish.... Usually she talks for 20 minutes, "Preguntas? No? Vale!" and then she goes on... meaning, if you sleep for 2 minutes, you won't be able to catch up! But she is very nice, we introduced us to her and she told us about extra tutor hours twice a week, which is a great opportunity, as we have our first test coming up soon. We will make use of it next week, as this week we still have our Curso Intensivo de Español.

Here are some photos from our university...

Hallway

Typical class rooms, projector for PPTs, blackboards for additional information

Enjoying the sun ;)

Before the weekend started, we gathered at Marie's place to have some drinks and to go out afterwards. The Spanish people definitely know how to party, they start late and finish even later... Meaning, we start pre-drinking at 10/11, go to the club at 1/2 and come home at 4/5/6. The typical drink here before going out is Sangria, occasionally beer or other mix drinks, but Sangria seems to be the favorite of everyone (also because it is really cheap!) (Comment by Dawe: That counts usually for all Erasmus students; the Spaniards as flatmates prefer Ambar (beer from Zaragoza) and hard liquor, whereby the chicas living one level beneath use to drink wine)

On the weekend, we did another trip to IKEA and the shopping centre, together with 5 roommates from Marie. It was like a small family trip and in total we spend 6 hours there. In the end, we were all exhausted and were looking to come home!

(PS: In the shopping centre, there is a NIKE FACTORY!!!! YES!! Marie and Dawe (especially Dawe *lol*) spent like over an hour in there and bought new shoes (and Dawe a running shirt)... Shoes €75 reduced to €52 minus 30%, Running Shirt €20 minus 50%, totalling up to around €46... We are definitely going back there to check out new collections. Dawe: "I'm not gonna leave this country without buying at least 4 new pairs of shoes!")

Somehow this picture seems familiar... ;)

On Sunday, Marie's roommates gathered again in the living room and they spend most of the day together, talking about the weekend, what everybody had been up to, watching tv and just relaxing. In the evening they ordered Chinese food and watched a movie together. 

On Wednesday we have an exam from our intensive Spanish course, thus we wanted to spend most of the days preparing for the test; however, unfortunately we had so much homework to do that we couldn't prepare anything. However, we still ended up with 59% (Dawe) and 54% (Marie), which is pretty good! So far the course has been really great, our group is very nice and it is INTENSE. We learn a lot every day, but we are also looking forward to finish it and maybe use the time to have a look around the city and other great places around here.... 

... or doing some other activities like chilling ;)