Me gusta mucho el sol.... (roughly: I really like the sun)

And there's plenty of it. It's been in the 60's everyday and sunny. It's so nice to go and sit in the sun before and between my classes, especially since our house is FREEZING. The house is made for summer living and therefore is completely in the shade. They are putting in a heater but like always in Spain (whose motto is manana, manana, manana [tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow]) it is taking forever and will not be done before I leave. However, it proves a plus that we have people working on our house. Twice when I have come back from class for lunch one of my housemates, Ana, was sitting outside talking to one of the workers. He is very nice and doesn't mind me struggling through my Spanish in order for us to communicate. It helps hearing Spanish everywhere...although sometimes I struggle to get back into English when I am typing and things. Also when I speak English here it is usually with someone from outside Britain or the US, so many of the foreign habits have crept into my English.
Anyway, Malaga has started to win me over. I really enjoy school, although much of it is just a refresher from Spanish all those years ago and I am remembering quickly. In class we speak only Spanish and in the house I try to speak Spanish when I can, but any conversation more complicated than "how are you" or "I'm tired" is usually spoken in English. Most of my house mates are from Switzerland or Sweden. In my class all teh girls are Swedish and I felt like it was hard to fit in with them, although it was fine because the girls in my house were so nice. But one of the girls in the class, Sanna, is very nice and she invited me to go to a movie with her and some of the other people in our class.
There are seven people in my class, 2 boys and 5 girls. The boys are from, well I think the Netherlands but the teacher always says the country in Spanish and I can't figure it out, and the girls are all from Sweden. We have two teachers, Isa and Ramon. They are both very nice as I said in my last post. I am in school 3 hours a day, from 12-3, and then there is culture class, which is from 4-5. I really like the culture class. This week it has been about different places in Spain and the famous places to visit. We learn about the history of Spain as well as the geography and other things. Today we learned about the surrealist art movement. It was cool to learn about it from a teacher from a different culture.
Yesterday was my first trip past the school and the supermarket. Ana invited me to go to the park that is in Malaga to watch the sunset. The park was very nice, although it was up this huge huge mountain. She asked me if I walk fast and I said yes, but I didn't know we would be climbing 50 stairs and a mountain. The girl who is in my class and my house, Magdalena, came with us too. We hiked up up up and finally got to a little park in the woods. We walked down a little trail and stopped to wait for the sun to set and took some pictures. We met two guys who asked if we wanted our picture taken together. We talked with them for a while in Spanish and English. Ana is very good at Spanish and Magdalena is about my level, where we understand it well but have trouble expressing ourselves.
The guys left and we looked around a little and then decided to head back to our house. We got to the entrance of the park and the gate was locked. We stood for a second to take a picture and to assess the situation. We figured we'd have to climb over the gate and luckily there was a wall that went halfway up the gate. We were able to slip through two broken bars (it looks like people have been locked in or out before), put our foot on the bar across the gate and safely jump to the ground. We looked at the sign and realized the park closed at 7:00 and it was 7:15. But everything worked out.
I have not yet been to the ocean. Hopefully I will go tomorrow. We don't have culture class tomorrow and Melanie was talking about going to get coffee at one of the shops near the ocean. Tonight will be my first time to the city center. We are going to a movie at the University in the area. Because of Carnaval they are showing free movies every night about psychology. It is an American film, but we are not sure if the film is dubbed or in English with subtitles. I'll let you know when I update.

Hasta luego,
Jenn