January 28th

So today, we had our last day of class and Matt and I decided to get together to study. As we have found, it is rather difficult to meet one another, so we went to a small pub close to his house. He had been there quite a few times before and the owners were very nice to us. They wanted to see our notes over what we were learning and we had quite a long conversation with them. After a while, an older couple came in a sat right next to us. They didn’t understand Spanish very well, and heard us speaking English. It turned out, they were on vacation and were from Finland. They didn’t speak English very well either, so conversation was very difficult but they were extremely friendly and excited to talk with us. We translated what the waitress was saying to them and after about 45 minutes, the husband tried to buy us drinks. I think we nearly insulted him when we said we didn’t want anything. We knew we had to get out of there if we wanted to get any studying in, although it was nice to talk with the couple and practice our Spanish with the owners.

(I think I have a way with older people because when I was at another restaurant booking our Italy flights on my computer, I met an older couple from Scotland and they talked my ears off! They gave me their website in case I ever wanted to visit them in Scotland….they owned a bed and breakfast.) Anyways, it was an eventful night, as all are here in Granada!