A typical day

Hey guys!
I have lots of ideas coming on what it's like to make friends here, and how homesickness has affected me and the other exchange students I know here, but I'm going to wait to write about this, because I'll have a better perspective with time.
For now, I thought I would try to give you guys a good idea of what a typical school day is like.
I wake up every morning at about 7:20, and a neighbor (who happened to work at my school) picks me up at 8. Classes start at 8:20 (the school is about 10 minutes away driving), and I have three 55-minute long classes up until 11, when the 30-minute break starts. We're allowed to go out into Santomera (where my institute is), and I usually go to a café with friends and buy myself a ham & cheese pastry or a sandwich with jamón and tomato, which only costs a euro or two. Then the other 3 classes until 2:15, when we all need to run to catch the school-buses (which kind of look like grey-hound buses). I'm usually home by 2:40, but if my friend's dad isn't there to drive us from the bus stop, It'll usually get home at like 2:55.

I have 9 classes in total, from the Primero Bachillerato social sciences track:
Philosophy - my teacher is really nice, but tends to go on some crazy tangents that are hard to understand
History of the Modern World - so far we've been focusing on European history, and we usually just follow the textbook. This professor is hard to understand, too, if you're not paying 100 percent attention
Science for the Modern World - mostly basic stuff I've already learned in Biology, and the professor is very understandable.
English - very boring. For second trimester I'm going to go to a more advanced class, so that should be a lot better.
Information Technology - I share a computer with another American exchange student, and we just go through the book doing little exercises, and it looks like that's all we're going to do all year.
P.E.- lots of running, and the fitness testing is a lot more competitive here.
Greek- just conjugating ancient verbs.
Lengua Castellana - kind of like Language Arts, but we focus a lot on all the parts of a sentence, too, like types of pronouns and that kind of thing,
Math for Social Sciences - sort of like Algebra 2, or the beginnings of Pre-calculus. I have a friend in the math class for the Science track, and it's much more difficult.

The nine classes are spread out over the whole week, and I have one of them just 2 times a week, and others 3 or 4. It's uneven because even though there are 9 classes (8 for Segundo Bachillerato), there are just 6 periods each day. We get out an hour early on Fridays, too. I didn't know this when I picked my track, but the stereotype is that the kids in the social sciences tracks don't tend to work as hard as those in the Science or Technology tracks. Maybe that's why I was able to pass all my classes (doing about the same amount of homework as at home, maybe even a little less), although I don't know of any other exchange students that passed everything. And most of the Spanish students have failed subjects, too. Right now they're doing recuperation tests for everyone that's failed, and the vast majority of students in my school are taking at least 1 or 2.

I know this blog has been a bit neglected during that past few weeks, and I will definitely try to keep you guys updated better when things settle into a routine from after the break.

Ruby