Making spanish friends is hard work

I've seriously considered starting up smoking just to make Spanish friends during class breaks. Spanish people need their descansos, so every 1.5 of class there is a 10 minute break where everyone gathers outside talking, smoking their cigs. Meanwhile, I'm just chilling and pretending to be vaguely interested in something I can waste 10 minutes on.

Yesterday I had my first day of class at the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC, but not to be confused with Uof I at Chicago). They have a school of architecture, ESARQ (Escole Superior de Arquitectura) at which I am taking one class, Composicio IV.

The first day kinda sucked. I got there early, and everyone is outside the classroom all chatty with their friends. (I think there's some kind of rule where you don't enter the room until the professor gets there.) And here I am, standing all pathetic by myself. Ten minutes is a really long time! But at least I got the classroom right!

I soon found out that this architecture history class was not going to be research paper based. Yay, no boring research papers. Nay, finding a 4-person group! That part has been stressing me out since yesterday, especially since I only exchanged a one word convo with another person.
"Is this seat taken?"
"No."
However, today I made 5 new friends! without having to light up. lol And one of them was a Polish girl, who is studying abroad from London, so we spoke Polish, but she's dropping the class since she can't understand Spanish. 3 more are part of my group. Magda, Eva, and Sergi. I kinda lucked out and picked their names out of a hat because the professors said the foreign students must disperse amongst the groups, so for better or worse, they are stuck with me.

But we're meeting tomorrow to visit and analyze the Mercat de Santa Catarina.

It has a pretty awesome roof.

From there we have to make an architectural exhibition for 8-10 year old kids, write a 4 page paper about it, make a model, and design an educative game. Que chulo, no?