So I've basically disappeared this week - exams, exams, books, and more books...
Who would have thought I actually go to school right?
Yeah, well this week was kind of my hell week. Last Thursday my literature professor said something in class about making sure that we were ready to discuss the book on Tuesday...translation - "Oh shit - what book?" Well, it turns out when the syllabus says "start" the book, it really means "have the book completely read and be ready to start the discussion of the book". Basically, I spend a whole weekend of my life reading 200 pages of classic Spanish theater about a prostitute giving love advice to young Romeo and Juliet type couple and in the end there's people jumping out windows and getting their heads chopped off - perfecto right?
And then the story continues...Tuesday my spanish language professor says "Don't forget your final is in 2 days and you have to read this book" - translation, "Are you f-ing kidding me?" So all of Tuesday and Wednesday was spent frantically reading a book about a cat teaching a bird to fly - cute book I have to say, I will be reading it to my future children.
Then Thursday afternoon rolls around - and my literature professor springs on us the "oh I scheduled the play we're gonna go see and it's the 29th of November at 8pm" - translation, "Ahhhhh! I have a flight to the canary islands that night at 9" - oh and by the way, the play is mandatory... So after explaining the situation to the prof and arguing with him about not telling us about it before so we didn't have plans and then saying that 30% of the class wasn't gonna be there (that's 3/10 - small class) he agreed to move the play to the weekend before.
Friday - took a little viaje to La Mancha to fight some windmills with mi amigo Don Quijote - pretty epic. Windmills were pretty and went exploring some ruins of an old castle - got eaten alive by some kind of insect in the process, don't worry, nail polish works the same as Chigerid.
Watched the movie "The Way" until about 3:30am Friday/Saturday night. (Awesome movie - everyone go watch it right now!) And then about 5am woke up with what I'm assuming was a mild case of food poisoning - 4 others had it too - who knows.
Saturday went well, got some fake Mexican food (the first thing that has had any flavor here) and got lost looking for a mall (which was really small and totally not worth my time)...
So yes, that is my life. I'm still on a quest to use my Spanish more and find some people that don't just want to speak English all the freaking time. I really just need to get it in my head that I can only speak Spanish, regardless of what others are doing. Sigh. Story of my life...
On the other side of things - I think this weekend I will be going to Galicia and Portugal con mi familia española. Not sure where, but there's some kind of family party and I'm going along for the free vacation and to have some fun doing Spanish things - thankfully the family all speaks Castellano and not Galego...that would have been miserable. Don't know if I'll have wifi (pronounced wee-fee by the way) but it'll be an adventure. (Here's to spending 7 hours driving in my host mom's baby sized Toyota squeezed in the backseat between my 2 host brothers...oh boy)
Ok, I need to go learn about the Camino de Santiago and write a paper about a frog...
'ta luego :)
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