Just for U.G. (Class synopsis)

Classes in Barcelona, as requested by my Uncle Gil.

I attend classes every day here, Monday through Friday.  My subject classes are held Monday through Thursday and Spanish is my only class on Friday.  My two most interesting classes are Catalan Cultural Perspective and Politics and Regionalism.  They're both helping me understand how Catalan culture works.



I am really enjoying my Spanish class.  It's long (three hours, three times a week) but in each class I feel like I'm learning things that are useful.  My vocabulary is getting bigger and I am learning a lot of language rules that I hadn't known.

Today I went to the post office and was able to communicate easily with the post office worker.  This was pretty cool.  Even though going to the post office at home is no big deal, here I have to figure out how to say what I want to say and on top of that, there are all kinds of little rules in Barcelona that I just don't know about.  For example, when I walked into the post office, there were a lot of people standing and sitting around but there was no line.  I stood there figuring it was just a kind of makeshift thing until a woman came in and took a ticket from a machine.  It turns out that the post office is run like a deli and you have to pick a number to get service.  One thing about the post office here and in the U.S. is the same though: the line takes a very long time to get through!!