Museos

I've decided to take a break from my reading for World Civilizations and document some of what I have been doing. School has been going great, I like all of my classes- especially Spanish. I have an amazing teacher who really wants to help us learn the language. For example, today she spent almost the whole two hours of class reviewing and giving several examples of a few confusing concepts that I've been struggling with for so long! I am definitely going to learn so much this semester. Yesterday after lunch a group of us went to Madrid to visit Reina Sofia Museum of Modern Art. It was such a neat place, so abstract, but so awesome. My favorite by far was Picasso's Guernica, it is massive and so expressive. I also loved Picasso's statue of Mujer en el Jardin because it reminded me of my mom out in the garden during the summer. Salvador Dali's paintings were also some of my favorites, I've never seen such abstract art in my life, but I loved it. The museum containes some interesting pieces of art such as a canvas with a huge smear of blue paint and one black dot, or a white canvas with thirteen black dots and one red one. A group of friends and I had a fun time analyzing what the artists' intents were. Today after school a group of us went to Madrid to visit the Museo de las Americas museum. It was pretty neat seeing ancient artifacts from the Aztecs and Incas. The museum helped bring some of the reading I've been doing for class to life. I talked with Ana quite a bit yesterday and I just love talking with her, well I just love talking in Spanish. I asked her about her thoughts on Franco and that itself was a good thirty minute conversation. We leave for Toledo tomorrow on the bullet train at 9:00am, I'm excited!