So nothing too exciting has really happened since I posted on Tuesday. However, I have had closer to 99% days since then, which is a good thing. I don´t know if I have mentioned it yet, but I am taking a Catalan class through the University on Monday and Wednesday nights. Catalan is the other language spoken in Catalunya, which is where Barcelona is located. It sounds very strange, sort of like a mixture of french, spanish, and latin? I´m not sure... anyway, my reason for telling you that I am in this class is because of something funny that happened at dinner lastnight. My host mom speaks Catalan and Castillano (Spanish), but my host dad only speaks Castillano. They know I am in this class and it makes me late to dinner on Monday and Wednesday nights. Lastnight when I came in, my host mom asked me how class went, and I said three things to her: "Em dic Melissa. Soc dels Estats Units. Estudio psicologia." Now, though this looks very similar to spanish, it sounds like "Om deek Melissa. Soak dehls Ehstots Uneets. Ehstudeeu seekulujiya." When you´ve been working on getting the spanish accent down for over a month, it is sort of difficult to forget it and pronounce things completely differently! Anyway, after I said my three basic phrases in Catalan, my host mom got so excited and couldn´t stop telling me for the next half hour that I had such great pronunciation and that she was very proud of me for learning those phrases. (Did I mention that this is after 4 classes, and all I can really say is "My name is Melissa. I am from the United States. I am studying Psychology."?!?!) Meanwhile, my host dad just looked at me like I was crazy because I was trying to learn a new language when I am not yet really great at Spanish... but, I was happy to make my host mom happy. And now, she has decided that it is a good idea to speak to me only in Catalan... which is not so much fun. Hmm, lunch today should be interesting...