Hola! Como esta?

Hola los Estados Unidos!

So i still don't know alot of Spanish, but I'm starting to pick up on some things.  Today's class was pretty interesting...we learned how to say the days, months, food items, and the various areas of the house during today's Spanish class.  The only thing is that I found out that we have an exam next Wednesday in Spanish...aaahh!!!  That's a bit nerve wracking, but I'm hoping that it won't be too bad!

We also had our first "official" taxonomy quiz today for Biology.  I think that I did well, so I'm not too worried...I'm just hoping that I'll be able to remember all of the names we have to know for the various phyla!!!

Also, I just want to make a correction to yesterday's blog...it was brought to my attention by Meaghan Lupinacci (did I spell that right?) Reid that I used "Maria" and "Martha" in my blog.  If I'm being completely honest, I had thought that my house-mom's name was Maria, but then as I was finishing it, I remembered that its Martha, so I thought I changed them, but I guess I didnt...sorry!! :-D

So today, we had to wake up at 6:30 because we were late to school yesterday and we couldnt be late for our quiz today!  After Allison and I got ready for school, we had breakfast, which was this chicken sandwich with some sort of spread on it and potatoes, I think...but I'm not really sure.  We also had strawberry yogurt, which was amazing, by the way...haha.  I still couldnt finish my whole breakfast though, so Martha packed it for me, along with a banana and this Quaker snack pack for a little snack at school. 

We then got on the bus and went to school to take our quiz and have Spanish class.  After Spanish, we had culture class, in which we learned about the origin of chocolate.  It first originated by the Aztecs in Mexico, but it was very bitter.  They also started the idea of "chocolate caliente" and, after we learned about it, Roger took us to a small shop where they made it.  Amanda and I shared a cup of it, and it was seriously awesome.  Remind me again why we use stupid "Swiss Miss" powder...we should totally make it like the Aztecs!  haha

We then came back from school and had lunch with Martha.  After this, we met up with Amanda and Jessie at two of the malls that are about a 15 minute walk from the house.  It was interesting seeing all of the different Mexican stores!  Following this, we met with everyone from Ursinus for dinner.  We ended up going to a small restaurant, which was really nice and had a great atmosphere!

I'll update again tomorrow!  Love you all!

-Ashley