Real Latvian Treasure

As I have missed some days of blogging, there are couple of things that I would like to share with you, but I will start with the best moment of today!!! :) ...So, after the lecture which was supposed to end at 17.30 but ended at 16.30 and thus basically took only 30min of my precious time, me and Lizzie thought it would be a good idea to go shopping! ;) What we didn't take into account was that shops open only at 17.30, but the time was well spent in a cafe while drinking Granisado (actually not sure if that is how it is called, cause I forgot again :D anyway, smth like lemon juice with lots of smashed ice and a bit of sugar - very tasty, very refreshing :) anyway, while looking for good shops, at one moment i just felt like buying ice-cream, so we entered the first grocery store on the way. And what do I see there??? Real Latvian treasure - Kārums!!! That just made my day, ate only 1 but will return there for sure.... :) the funny thing, however, was that Lizzie asked the shop-assitant where are all those things in the shop from and the answer was: Russia! Rrrr.... :p but I was happy anyway - got my Kārums and Lithuanian ice-cream! :)
Now back to other important things! Here I would like to share my opinion on shopping opportunities in Elche. The city is not very big, but quite full of shoe-shops and what is more, they are almost all very cheap. The average price of pair of shoes is smth like 10-20 EUR. I have not been so lucky with finding clothing stores, but it seems there are all the big brands: Zara, Mango, Vero Moda, H&M... The prices are lower in Zara, but quite the same in Vero Moda and Mango. maybe a bit lower.
I just couldn't resist of putting this photo... my amazing shoes with my even more amazing sun-glasses ;)What is more, I have finally more or less selected the courses that I am gonna take:

• Spanish Financial System - i think in this course we will study a part of FE that I didn't pay attention to - smth about the work of Financial Institutions and blaa, blaa.. But the professor seems quite interesting and overall not a bad subject!
• Financial Operations - I think it will be basics of FE, just a bit deeper and more mathematics involved. This professor is kind-a a bit strict, but not very - cannot really compare to Peter.
• International Trade or actually I just do not know how to translate it :p - this seems like smth very new for me. We will talk about the international transportations and Customs and the professor is the same as in SFS.
• Commercial Communication - very new for me as it is basically Public Relations. We will have to make quite some tasks/reports there which sounded a bit complicated, but I have Emilie there so we will be fine! :)
• Financial Planning - have not been to this course yet, as I was trying out that Internet Communication, but I guess I will choose this as Lizzie is also taking it and I feel like having a bit more of Finance! :)

So overall these 5 subjects take only a bit of my time... Mondays are free, on Tuesdays I have only 1 lecture in the evening, the same for Wednesdays and on Thursdays there are 2 lectures in the morning and 1 in the evening and the same on Friday - Niiice, see some opportunities for traveling! ;)
Another thing that happened today was that I got to know one Spanish guy from my University who approached me when I was going home. For the first time I was talking to Spanish students and - damn, they speak fast! :p Couldn't understand some parts of what he was saying, but he offered to help me if I need anything! Yeah, we will see about that! :D
But overall my spanish is even better than I thought it will be - during the lectures I understand quite well, but it takes time for me to really get what the professor is saying, as I have to translate AND understand... But the Spanish is definitely improving as I am spending quite some time with Lizzie (who speaks very well as I have already mentioned) and my favorite question to her is "Como se dice esto en Español?"
Vale, I definitely forgot smth, but I will be back here soon! ;)

By the way, I was planning to go to the beach tomorrow, but it is raining and it seems it is gonna rain tomorrow as well...