"firsts"

Since being in Sevilla, me and my lovely roommate Kayla have decided that we want to do something new every day... something that we´ve never done before. It has been really cool and now that I´ve been here almost a month, I´ve done lots of new things! Every day, I write down what "firsts" I had that day. Lots of them have now become normal, everyday activities, but there was a point in time when they were all new things! I won´t go into ALL of them, but here are a few:

1. I have gotten used to having a PAUSE in the middle of my day for approximately 2 or 3 hours. Everyone is at home, stores are closed, and it is a wonderful time to take a break or a nap.
2. I drink whole milk daily - warm! (not something I do at home). Along with that, I have had exactly the same thing for breakfast for about 26 days in a row, not counting when I was traveling to places besides Sevilla.
3. This morning I had to hold the hairdryer plug-in into the wall outlet while Kayla was drying her hair and she had to do the same for me. I can´t say I´ve ever done that before!
4. I now have, for the first time ever, a staightener with a name. Me and Kayla´s shared straightener is fondly known as Hannah Montana.
5. I walk about a mile to get to school. (or pretty much anywhere else I need to go, for that matter)
6. I am in a class with a total of 10 students. That is about half as many students as any other class I´ve taken, and it´s great!
7. My professor and the woman I live with both don´t know English. I´ve never experienced anything like that before. It makes for some interesting conversations...
8. I have now learned how to dodge people really well while I´m running. The big streets are pretty crowded, and the narrow streets are, well... narrow. Unless I run at 7 am, running pretty much always involves a lot of dodging.
9. I have never had a specified "laundry day" before coming here. Now Mondays are for clothes, and Wednesdays are for sheets! Also, my clothes dry on a clothesline on the roof. That´s new.
10. I took my nose ring out and let it close. No more nose ring!
11. For the first time in my life, I am living in a carpet-less and heat-less house. Needless to say, slippers are a necessity!
12. I have booked airplane tickets, hotels, and hostels on my own. Previously in my life, I relied on my parents for all that kind of stuff. Now I know how to do it myself!
13. Along with number 12, I have now stayed in a hostel for the first time ever and it was quite the experience...
14. On the way to school the other day, I got hit by a car for the first time in my life. Ok, so it was probably more like a nudge and hit my bag more so than me but it definitely counts.
15. I missed my family´s annual ski and snowboard trip. :(
16. I wrote a Valentine´s day card in Spanish.
17. This past Sunday I played two on two soccer in the park in shorts and a t-shirt. I have never done that before in the middle of February!
18. I went to a Catholic mass completely in Spanish.
19. I´ve seen SO many things for the first time since I´ve been here. Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, ruins in Cordoba, etc...
20. I have a BLOG!