Going, going, gone...

Yes, sadly, the amazingly warm (and supposedly unusual) weather that we were experiencing here in Santander appears to be gone for good. :(

Today, instead of being able to run around in shorts, or go lie on the beach, I had to stay bundled up in a sweater.. It was down around 13 degrees Celsius (hang on, let me convert that...) which is a chilly 55 degrees fahrenheit! I don't remember what it normally is back in CT right now, but it was nice to finally feel winter on its way!

Tonight, I went on an "intercambio" with a professor named Maria. An intercambio is basically where two people practice speaking with one another. For one hour, we spoke in English, and for the second we spoke in Spanish. Needless to say, her English was much better than my Spanish, but I learned a whole lot more. And then tonight during dinner, Teresa and I started talking about casinos, and I somehow got to explaining that casinos are not allowed in CT, except on Indian territories. Now try to imagine explaining what a sovereign nation is without using complex words, and without knowing how to say sovereign! After about 5 minutes, I think I had gotten the point across, but it only took 10 seconds after dinner for me to type it into wordreference.com and find out that I should have just said "nacion soberana"! Oh the joys of learning a language by submersion.. ;) Hasta pronto!