Greetings from Barcelona

Today is our 11th day in here, in Barcelona. And today was also our first school day in here. We go on the local nursing school and visit the classes, because our Spanish is not good enough to go to the hospital. In this way we can hear a lot of Spanish. In my mind it is a really good opportunity how to learn the Spanish more quickerly. And also it is very interesting to see, which the lessons are in here. Today we should have three classes, but we had only one. Our classes were canceled, because of the bad weather. Here is snowing!!! It is the first snow over the many-many years when it’s snowing in here. It is really uncommon. Firstly it wasn't like a real snow, it was something between snow and rain. In Estonia we call it "lörts". But after some minutes it really started snowing. It is really incredible. Autonoma de Universitat was evacuated. All the schools are closed There is a lot of people on the streets, who are acting like crazy ones. They are taking pictures, playing the snow ward etc. All the people are so happy, they are like young children, because I think most of them haven’t never seen the snow. And my room mates have been singing the Christmas songs all the day.

In Estonia, this is totally normal weather, but not in here. When our coordinator came and said that the classes are cancelled because of the weather, then she also said that certainly we laugh at it. We are used to with snow. :P Yes, of course we are!

Here is real panic at the moment. The public transport is stopped, trains traffic is interfered, Internet connection is gone. Everything is out of order because of snow. Tomorrow nobody don’t have classes also.

The one lesson what we had, was anatomy and physiology. It was the first year nursing student lesson and we went to there because it was in Spanish. Here are a lot of classes in Catalan, not in Spanish, because here, in Barcelona, are two official languages – Catalan and Spanish. Usually the local people can speak both of this language, but unfortunately not all of them. We try to learn only Spanish, because it is easier and more common in the word.

This is the reason why we visit a lot of different classes - some are the first year classes, some are the third year ones. It is interesting. Fortunately, there was quite easy to understand the point of the lesson, because a lot of words where similar to Estonian. As you know, all the medicine language is based on the Latin. That is really good.


We will write soon again,
Adios!

Kertu ja Maarjo