Back to class

School was about the same as always. Learning a lot and class is always so animated. Our professor is really good at making class enjoyable. I can tell my spanish is getting better but it is difficult to keep the tenses straight. The stories we have been reading are in the past tense and I have caught myself speaking in the past tense when I shouldn´t. I´ll get there eventually! After class and after blogging we went home to eat lunch. My señora made a Mexican dish and it was great. After eating we hurried to meet up with the group of students that were going to the zoo today! At the zoo I got to hold a snake! They draped it over my shoulders and I held the rest of its body in my hands. The snake kept moving its face towards mine and I was a little nervous becaue it was a pretty large snake! I´ll put picture on here when I get back to Tennessee. I waited on two other students and we lost the group. I tried to catch up and the two girls I was waiting with stopped to look at something else. I didn´t catch up to the group and by that time, I lost the two other girls I was with! I was walking through the zoo by myself. It was kinda fun though because I got to go at my own pace. It was a huge zoo. I saw a baby lion, monkeys, turtles, ponnies, etc. My favorite was a parrot that I walked by and it said HOLA to me! When I told Matt I was going to the zoo today he asked me to find out if the animals speak spanish here too and they did! It was so funny. I was by myself standing there saying hola back and forth with the bird. I laughed for a while about my conversation with the parrot. It started to rain so I had to hide under different umbrellas or animal areas that were covered until the rain stopped. When I was walking through the area with the baby animals or smaller animals I saw one of the really big turtles stuck on its back! I was so worried because I could tell she had been struggling for a while. I ran to get help from one of the zoo employees who was inside a room. I told him in spanish that the tortuga was...and I had to do hand motions to show him flipped, because I didn´t know the word. He came and flipped the turtle over. He said the turtles are trying to mate and the male turtle had flipped her over! The zoo was about to close by the time I met back up with the group. They were so excited to see me...they thought I was really lost! I didn´t mind at all though. I saw some animals that the group had missed. After coming home from the zoo, eating, and getting ready to go back out, Kara and I met some of the group at a bar. After hanging out there for a while we headed home.