Making Friends In Another Language

Greetings from Girona in Spain!
This is day 2 of the pre-orientation seminar and as it turns out we´re not allowed to speak in English! At least not when our leaders are around.  We´ve been forced to form covert English Speaking parties but they´re always on our track so we need to change where we congregate.  Otherwise our conversations are strictly Spanish 101
Example: How are you? (¿Como estás?)
               Fine (Bien.)
              It´s cold (Hace frio.)
              Yeah. (Sí)
Kind of difficult to make friends this way which is why we must do it in secret.
So far I´m doing alright with my goals.  I haven´t spent much money or stressed out about grades but I haven´t quite picked up the language.  Of course it doesn´t help that we´re in the Barcelona area so they don´t even speak Spanish here. But I´ve learned many new ways to talk about the weather in my attempt to make friends.

Hasta luego,