Salsa dancing and everything

Well, I haven´t updated this in a little while. I have been doing really well lately. Even last night, the young people from this church we started going to and Kyla, and Andrea, and I went salsa dancing. It was so much fun... we got there a little bit early so there weren´t that many people there but we had a pretty big group so we all just started dancing together. There was a guy who was trying to teach us a few moves, but it was hard to hear and hard to see so we just had fun and danced all around. I love salsa dancing and I would love to take lessons someday and maybe even dance in a competition. I started making a list here of everything I want to do in life and taking salsa lessons and dancing in a competition is one of my goals in life now. Another is to learn how to snowboard... Sierra, if you read this, you can help me with that one. I can´t wait to go snowboarding and stuff when I get back. I could possibly go here in the Sierra Nevada mountains, but since I don´t know what I´m doing at all, that´s kind of intimidating, but we´ll see.

I just finished my intensive month course, which really wasn´t intensive at all. We had class for 4 hours a day, 5 days a week but almost everything we did I had seen before in other Spanish classes multiple times. It was good to see all of it again though because hopefully this time I learned it for good. The test wasn´t too bad or anything, I feel like I did pretty well. Umm.. what else is new. Well, a couple days ago, me and some friends and some intercambios (Spanish girls) went out to lunch and then we got ice cream and just walked around Granada. It was cool to practive my spanish and the girls got to practice their English with us. I think it´s funny that some of the Spanish people get so nervous to speak English with us because I´m like hello, I´m not speaking my native language here either. I definitely feel like my spanish skills have improved. I catch myself listening to people speak spanish but it feels really normal, not like when I´m walking through Ohio State campus and I hear people speak spanish and it sticks out a lot. Spanish is starting to become more normal and easier for me. Maybe that switch that people talk about has started to turn on, when everything becomes easier. I don´t know though because I still speak in English quite a bit to some American friends and when I´m with Kyla and Andrea we don´t speak Spanish all the time. My brain does need a break sometimes.
I feel like I have a new outlook here now after meeting people and not having homesickness nearly as much as I did. I feel like 4 months might not be long enough to really learn everything I want to learn and I could stay longer, but on the other hand I will certainly be ready to come home and spend Christmas with everyone. When I was talking to some people at the church we go to and I told them that we´re staying until the end of December, they all said you´re only staying 4 months, that´s not very long at all. When I first got here, 4 months felt like it was going to be an eternity and I was almost counting down the days I was here just because I missed everything so much, but now I´m having so much fun and I´m getting used to things a lot more I probably won´t want to leave. Well, I have many things to do to get ready for our trip because we´re leaving tonight so this is all I have for now. There will be much more to come after we go to France, Italy, and Switzerland. :)