did i mention i booked my flight home? it's for july 14. i know that's kind of random, but i checked every date from the middle of june until the end of july. it was either july 14 or july 21. from june until july 14 they are in the thousands! i thought i wouldn't be able to afford it home. i'd have to buy a head scarf and sit on the streets with a piece of cardboard saying i have family in uganda that i can't afford to feed, with a wrinkled picture of them to top it off...
(i have no sympathy for those women because on the next street over there's another with the same exact sign and picture)
so anyways, i have less than three months here, but the good times are still raging! spring semester is way way different from fall. i think if i only came here for spring it'd be different. i also think since i was like the only american in the fall it was super weird. but now over half the classes are american and they are all friends so they don't experience as much. maybe that's just my opinion though. but i'm glad i came here early and had to figure things out for myself and got to make friends with the spanish kids first. is that selfish? haha. i don't mean that i'm glad i got to do everything first, like i'm not bragging, i just mean i'm glad i didn't have 150 other americans (or many other study abroad kids) to lean on the whole way. they are all inseparable, and i feel like it's a different experience that way.
plus, spring semester is ALWAYS faster than fall, even at home. maybe because of spring break? i don't really know. but i know that one semester here would not give me enough time to soak everything up! especially with traveling to all the other places. i am actually used to the way things are around here, and when i go back to the states i feel that i will have a hard time adjusting again! it's mostly just the simple things, like when you greet someone you give them two kisses on the cheek instead of shaking their hand. or the siesta in the middle of the day when you can do whatever you want, and sundays are the days off for everyone. or how you can walk down the street and pick any one person out and go up and start a conversation, and it's normal, and you will most likely end up meeting them at a cafe one day again. or getting together with your friends at 11pm to cook a huge feast and drink cava and it goes on for hours and hours. the differences are endless!
monday night was a friend from UCF's birthday, 21! so we had to go out of course. we went to this place called Otto Zutz which is right across the street from me! how perfect. it's one of my favorite places. not a lot of tourists, and really good music. some nights they play like 90's rock and it's awesome haha. but monday was so much fun because we met about 30 kids from school and we took over! it's always more fun when you know more people.
yesterday i had a presentation in marketing plan and that is really my favorite class. the teacher is the best. he always says, "i know this might be boring, but..." and he tries so hard to make it more interesting. i like it when a teacher is really passionate because they really make the class better. i actually want to go! the presentation was easy, and he always compliments us and tells us what we did right and wrong. he talks with us about the spanish economy and differences between "us and them." and how businesses are run differently. and then he says, well it's getting nice out here in barcelona, the beach is right there, i completely understand if you "can't make it to class" one day because you are stuck at the beach.
i mean, really?? is this real life?
i have another presentation tonight but i'm dreading it because i hate the teacher! okay hate is a very strong word, but i really don't like that class. he belittles us everyday and all the other presentations that have been made have just been torn apart. but i guess if no one can please him then i shouldn't feel too bad if he tears me apart too! but the presentation is a group so atleast i don't have to go by myself :)
yesterday was a barca game and it's getting to the end so competition is fierce! they played milan and lost 3-1, so everyone is in a huff about it. we ended class early last night so everyone could go watch. but they still have a chance to make it to the finals! i really really hope they do because i want to see what this city is like with their beloved futbol team in the finals. last night i was walking to a friend's apartment and the whole way there i would hear random shouts and screams and glasses clinking because the game had just started. i love it.
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