By Kent Truckor – Guest blogger studying in Valencia, Spain
Today I started my fifth week of classes. Looking at how things are going now I am glad I signed up for a longer duration in comparison to a month or two stay. Many of the students at the school come for 2 orthree weeks and then head back home. It may work ok for them, but I feel that I would have lost everything I learned within a couple of weeks of my return back home. This is not to say that I will have to practice and find ways to use Spanish upon my return otherwise, I will lose the language ability.
A new wave of students has come in today and it is kind of a weird position that I am in at this point. It seems as though I am sitting back and watching the world go by. I have seen quite a few faces at this point come and go, I don't mind it, it is just different.
This past weekend I went out with one of my flat mates and their friends. We went to their house and then the different bars and closed the night off at one of the clubs on the beach. In Spain, the night generally lasts longer than in the United States. Back home, a late night would be 3 or 4 AM. Here, it is normal to get home at 5 or 6 it seems, haha. I don't mind it, it was fun to go out and about and realize that many people feel that it is perfectly fine to be out until the sun rises. The city offers a magnitude of bars and eateries and many of which are very good.
This weekend also marked the beginning of the film festival in Valencia. Each year around the beginning of August through the beginning of September, they have a film festival of which they set up a giant screen outside near the Palacio de Musica and show a wide range of films from all sorts of countries. Whether it is free of not I have yet to find out because I arrived Saturday night after the film had started and the gates were closed so I watched it from outside the barriers, haha. The film was Stephen Spielberg's – Munich. I am a very big fan of Spielberg movies and it was the first time I saw the film, I was impressed with it and thought it was quality work. I also appreciate that Valencia has a little film festival. I think this is something well worth the time because the films slated to play are from a diverse background. I look forward to the films to come.
I have yet to go fishing, which is something high up on my list. This is my first time outside of North America and I think it would be a great experience to fish in another country. I am not expecting to catch a record-breaking fish (although I wouldn't complain if I did), the experience in itself is going to make it worth it. This is something that I know I definitely want to do in Valencia and if possible in other parts of Spain. All in all I feel that things are going well and it seems time goes fast as the weeks build.
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