el 20 de junio, 2009
How is it even possible that there’s less than 2 weeks left? I just realized this in culture class yesterday, when we were signing up for presentations and our teacher mentioned that things were starting to wind down. Wind down? But we just got here! I hope that I can do everything that I want to do here before it’s actually time to go – I’m worried that I’ll get back home and think, I should have gone here or there and should have done this or that. I also really need to get started on the project (a research paper) for culture class, as well as the supplemental assignments for Mason. My biggest obstacle with those is not having internet, especially when it comes to the research project, for which I will definitely need internet access. It’s kind of annoying that some of the people here have internet at their homestay that is free and convenient, whereas I will either have to pay for it at a cyber café or walk a half hour to the school (and only when campus isn’t closed) to use the school’s crap internet. Not fair, right? Oh, well. Either way, I’ll have to get the work done, so I’m thinking Sunday will be the day to do that.
Tomorrow (which is actually today – I’m writing this at 2am on Friday night) we’re going to una bodega, a vineyard, for a tour and wine tasting. I paid 17€ and the tour also includes una botella de vino, a bottle of wine, at the end. I’m really excited, since I have yet to visit a vineyard, even back home. That’s at 11:30am, and then we’ll probably come home for lunch and maybe shop or something. I can never get enough shopping here… I seriously want to come home with an entirely new wardrobe; it’s kind of ridiculous, considering I am an unemployed college student, but whatever. I might be an addict, but at least I’ll have super-mega guay ropa!!!
After classes and then lunch earlier, we met up with some friends to do a little shopping (btw, I only bought one thing today and it was cheap) and then out for a drink before dinner. When Lori and I got home, there were three new girls here – two are 13 and one is 14, and they are here for only a few days from France. We only met them briefly, since they are staying in the other room, but we do have to share a bathroom while they’re here. Also, I think we were feeling a little host-sibling rivalry at dinner time, since our mom fed them first and we had to wait until after 10pm for our dinner, which is normally around 9:30pm. We had to eat really fast, too, because we had plans to see a movie at 10:30pm. Of course, we had to walk there and we were about 10 minutes late, but it worked out because the movie happened to start at about the same time.
The movie was called Little Zizou, an Indian movie in English that was playing as part of a film festival currently going on here in Granada. They had a bunch of chairs and tables set up behind the big cathedral, with a huge outdoor movie screen and speakers. Our table was waaaay in the back, so we couldn’t hear much, but we were able to read the subtítulos en español. The movie was really good, and we also got some really yummy desserts and some expensive botellas de vino. After that, we came home, talked to our señora about the movie for a bit, and got ready for bed. I’m glad that we decided to call it a night fairly early, because tomorrow is going to be a long day. First, the wine tasting, then shopping, then we’re going out for Lauren and Allie’s roommate Catherine’s 21st birthday (seriously, you have no idea how many 21st – or younger – birthdays I have participated in since I’ve been here!). But I’ve had a lot of fun at the discotecas, whether it was just our group out on a Tuesday night or a crowded club on the weekend. I went to a discoteca called Granada 10 a couple of times this week, and had a great time – on Wednesday night, there were these hired dancers that performed a dance to Valió la Pena by Marc Anthony, which just so happens to be one of my favorite songs, and they also led the crowd with a few Spanish dances (think Macarena, Electric Slide or more recently, the Cupid Shuffle – that sort of thing, but Spanish!). It was “super divertido” to follow along and learn the dances, and I took a couple of videos so that I could post them at some point.
Anyway, it’s getting pretty late, so I think I’ll call it a night now. Just thinking about going out again is making me tired… keeping up with these 21-year olds is a lot of work sometimes! jajaja…
Entonces, ¡buenas noches!
- LC
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