Martes.

What did Tuesday bring for me? Frankly, not much. Another day of class. In Phonetics, we are doing transcriptions--basically taking texts in Spanish and writing out how they are pronounced phonetically.
For example:
"Nunca dejes de sonreír, ni siquiera cuando estés triste, porque nunca sabes quién se puede enamorar de tu sonrisa."
Transcription (more or less--there are a few errors):
[ 'nũŋka 'ðexez̦ ðe sonr̄e'ir | ni si'kjera 'kwan̦do eș'teș 'triște | 'porke 'nũŋka 'saβes kjen se 'pweðe enãmo'rar ðe tu son'r̄isa ]

Then in the afternoon, I had cine. 3 people gave a presentation over the last movie we watched, and then we talked about why Spaniards don't like Spanish movies, and then we started watching another movie "La noche de los girasoles" (Night of the Sunflowers)--it's a little creepy so far.

Now it's time for dinner, then some homework and job application stuff.
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And I guess I haven't really mentioned the Icelandic Volcano. It's big news here, especially with all the flights being cancelled in Northern Europe. One of my friends, Kelsey (also here for the year), was in Norway visiting a family friend when it erupted and spent 2 days driving with people back to Spain...she said it was a nightmare. We have had a boy from Jersey (island--owned by Britain) here at our house--he was supposed to leave on Saturday, but due to the volcano, he is here until Friday--if his plane will leave then. If his flight is cancelled again, he will be traveling by car to northern France and then taking a ferry home. It's craziness...

Hopefully it will all be resolved by the time I come home. I'm lucky though and my flight is from Madrid to Dallas--then Dallas to Des Moines...18 days.