I am beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Another mid-term knocked off my to-do-list. Today, I took my mid-term in my Modern Democratic State class. I thought my essay was thorough and tetered on the brink of genius/masterpiece. Let's only hope that my professor agrees with me. With my fourth mid-term out of the way, I only have two left. Naturally, the one I dread the most is on Thursday, so I will either have a good weekend, a bad weekend, or will be too tired to care. Let's hope it's the first one.
It seemed like the majority of people at the university decided to travel this weekend and take their own puente. However, I was the "perfect" student and showed up today. In December, I'm going to take my own puente the week of my birthday when I go to Italy, so I'm going to attend classes so when I do miss in December, it's not a big deal. After tomorrow, we have another holiday coming up on November 1st. (I will be slaving away for MTV Europe on this day) and another one on November 9th, a Tuesday, which means there will be a puente on November 8th. I was told today by the father of two of my students that outside of Spain, puentes don't exist. I think he's right. I mean, what's going to happen when (and if) I come back to the states. I'm going to be programmed to ovserve puentes. I can see it now - telling my boss at work, "I'm not going to come in on Monday because we have a holiday on Tuesday." Not a good idea. I saw on msn.com this morning an article for the ten things to say that will surely get you fired from your job. I'm pretty sure this would be one of the ten things to say.
Why is it that when you are looking for something, it's never available??!! It's so frustrating to me! Tonight after class, I walked with my friend to El Corte Ingles (the super megastore of Spain), in hunt of a Real Madrid hoodie. We walked to the one near school and I must say, their selection was a bare minimum. They only had a few Real Madrid jerseys and not a single Spanish national team jersey. Quite depressing. So, I'm going to get up in the morning and traipse over to the stadium and go to the Real Madrid store. I'm sure they will have a hoodie. Still shaking my head at myself for leaving one at home, but fifty pounds is fifty pounds. Especially when I was already paying an extra fifty dollars to check the second suitcase....The reason I'm in such a hurry to buy this is because, believe it or not, but it's getting chilly here. (Yes, this is coming from the person who would probably complain about it being hot even in Antartica.) It's only 65 degrees, but just the other day, we had temperatures in the high 80's. Such a drastic change.
So it looks like I'm going to be doing the majority of my traveling during Semana Santa, which is Easter Week here in Spain. I will have the entire week off, so it will be a perfect time to travel. Guess I need to start saving now! Speaking of saving, I have decided to limit myself to one trip per month to the American store. Today I walked in and discovered they had brought in ginger ale, cherry coke, and bleu cheese dressing. Oh, and they also had 3 Musketeers bars! So, I bought a few cans of ginger ale, cherry coke, and a 3 musketeer. No bleu cheese dressing for me. I also passed up the bag of jolly ranchers they had sitting on the counter. And the double stuffed oreos. I couldn't bring myself to pay nine euros for them. Somehow, paying twelve dollars for a pack of oreos doesn't seem logical nor economical. That's robbery!
Well, tomorrow is officially my holiday. I have absolutely nothing to do. Well except for studying, buying my sweatshirt, and trying to save the world. Not necessarily in that order :)
Quote of the Day: "It's really hard to walk in a single woman's shoes - that's why you sometimes need really special shoes!" -Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City (I have to agree with her wholeheartedly....yet, for me, the word sometimes is completely stricken from this quote....)
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