If you are special and you know it

Que Tal, 

I realize I've been slackin hardcore on the blog, ma dus, and for that I do apologize. I realize my words are a regular part of ya daily routine. So I got a decent amount to update you upon over the last 6 or 7 days. 

I've found myself really getting into Granada living, and having a fantastic time. I completely didn't realize we would have to take classes here. I have continued to have a great time with the IES Crew as well as the Spanish neighbors who we have continually gotten friendly with. 

I think the last time I updated I spoke about my new nickname in the Colegio, which is Chavo. I would like to tell all of you reading at home how special the Colegio is. These kids take about 12 classes with the expectation to fail around 5 or 6. This doesn't make them special, because they can take the exams again if they fail. Really great system I know. Anyway they are all taking exams and are incredibly bored. So bored that they resort to, as people walk into the dining hall, getting quiet, everyone staring at the people walking with trays and uniformly saying shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I thought that they were targeting me until I heard them shshhhiiing other members of the Colegio. One time I walked in with my tray and I cupped my ear a little bit, as to say, make some noise....think Allen Iverson back in the day. I think that this could have been detrimental to my cause. I have a new nickname, that is Dimbo. I went from Chavo, or Chavito like tiny D, to Dimbo, the Spanish equivalent of Dumbo. Which is apparently interpreted as I got a Big Ass D****  like an elephant. Anyway moving on, my neighbors who are really cool but equally as bored thought it would be a fun prank to take my roomates bed out of the room while we were in Sevilla for the weekend. I thought it was really funny and so did he, we still have no idea how they broke into the room. A cultural observation of the Colegio students is that friends, or atleast neighbors all go to lunch together every time. Or atleast make sure they have asked everyone in their area. And at lunch, everyone at the table gets up together when they leave, no one leaves before the other. It is very different from an American dining hall. 

Last tuesday my roommate and I played basketball with some Colegio ballers in an outdoor park. I was excited to see some differences, some Euro ball being played. Noticeable differences were that they never checked the ball in, but I would always forget and they would resume playing. Also when the ball went out of bounds rather then starting the ball at the top of the key they would do inbounds passes. I thought that they would be all about the three pointer, but rather they tried to make some ridiculous cuts and passes all the time. My roommate was pretty good, and it was a pretty competitive and fun game. One du could jump out of the building, which is weird for the Spanish. 

Thats it for Colegio discussion