I am writing on the first snow day in the history of my life. Congratulations Minnesota for having such crap-tastic weather. I've been spending this wonderful day trying to think of things to make myself feel better that i'm not getting to experience my first snow day, and this is what i've come up with. Y'all are probably going to get sick. Apparently only good things follow me around (like, for example, the weather). I am still able to walk outside in a t-shirt. My boogers don't freeze. No one's dying in snow related accidents. I don't have to wear boots to school (that's a really good thing because i keep forgetting to get a locker). I can see living things such as plants and people on the street. Things like that.
Well i'm writing today because, as some of you know, i'm deathly ill once again. Here's what happened:
Thursday, i came home from school feeling a little tired and disoriented, so i took MY FIRST SIESTA (look how spanish i am) and then after that i stayed up until 12 or so trying to complete the ungodly amount of homework i had, which included a 6 page written opinion paper about a book for philosophy (yes, i did that) 2 thorough explanations of graphs for geography, and to study for a biology test on friday. You can imagine that i was a little stressed out, so i didnt listen to my body (as cousin karen would say) and ended up getting sick. Friday was awful. I got up for school, and actually went even though i felt like crap, because i had my biology test. But i couldn't even manage doing that, because somewhere between question 3 about cells mutations and question 4 about mitosis, i fell asleep. After about 15 minutes, i woke up and went home. And slept. Today is monday, and i am still feeling a bit down, so i don't know how long this one's going to last. Curse you european viruses.
BUT while i was at home all weekend, sleeping and doing other exciting things like that, i figured out that i understand spanish movies now. I was at my neighbors house yesterday watching movies with her mother. We bonded over a corny christmas film, tea and nail polish. It was weirdly fun. The only thing of substance i've really eaten this weekend is crackers and soup, and ive also managed to loose some of the massive ton of weight i gained here, so really his weekend hasn't been bad at all. It could definitely have been worse.
Let me just talk here for a second, more in detail, about what i said about not having a lot of time left. Yes, everyone, i KNOW i still have 7 months, but just listen. This weekend, im going to alecante to have 'christmas' with my spanish grandparents. The weekend after that is REAL christmas which is where im going to the mountains. The weekend after that is New years which i will be spending with friends and family, The weekend after that is the 3 kings holiday (the epiphany?), Somewhere in january i will be going to both madrid and barcelona. February i have italian people in my house (i think)... This like that. Between march and july, i don't know EXACTLY what im doing, but i'm going to italy (hopefully france too) Las fallas, my sisters coming, finals, camino de santiago, and then a week of summer. See how jam pack i'm talking here? I know it's going to go so fast, and i'm kind of sad.
Having said that, the spaniards are not seeming any more normal to me. I'm am not fully accustomed to their ways or anything like that, that does not mean i don't like their way of life, i just don't understand it real well. They surprise me everyday, for example(s): They always wear shoes in the house... soon i'm going to start sleeping in my shoes. They always dress nicely. They are not fat. They clean a lot. They study all day, everyday. The new broadcast people seem very friendly (more about that later). I haven't met anyone who dries their clothes in a dryer, they all have hang racks. but the thing that most surprised me about them is that no one knows how Helen Keller is. I was fascinated. We have jokes and books and plays and everything, but here, no one knows her. It's so weird!!!
Just a little side comment about the new broadcast people. They start every section saying hello and asking each other how they are and talking about their day and all that, like it's a normal conversation. At first i thought it was cute and friendly, but now i'm just like, really... no one really cares if you've had a fantastic day or not because we're just here to see what happened in the world today. So please, just give me the news report. That might just be me, but it's fine.
Other than that nothing much has happened. I'm starting to pass random things in school that i didn't think i would pass (like that 6 pages philosophy paper i wrote... i passed it) and other random assignments. Its a good feeling. Expect for the fact that i had an English test today, and i think someone forgot to teach me grammar because i had a fairly hard time deciding what teh Present simple, past simple, present blah blah blah is. i hope it's what i put because it would be really embarrassing if it isnt.
On the contrary, I would like to say that one of my rather proud moments of this week would be that i finally learned the words to La Bamba. :]
Sorry i don't have any pictures to put up, but i would like to share this.
I watch this show every single night.
I don't actually know if i've seen this one before, but i just searched it on youtube, and it's the first one that came up. So yeah.
Soo long!
Jane
