Things Are Looking Up

Picture 1: Meaghan, Myself, our 65 year old dancing machine, and another guy who was trying to get in on the action. He's just a wannabe

Picture 2: All the girls from the Bucknell group @ Granada 10

It turns out that Julia, the other exchange student is really helpful when I cannot speak to my host mother. Despite the fact that my host mother favors talking to her rather than me (rightfully so- I wouldn't want to talk to me either when I'm this incompetent), she helps me a great deal. Unfortunately she's only here for two weeks- what a tease.

I finally had the nerve to mention to my host mother that I cannot eat this much fried food. Last night we were served a chicken and potato tortilla which is like a fried pancake. When I didn't eat much of it she asked "no quieres? ( you don't like?) " in which I replied that my stomach was very sensitive to fried food. Hopefully she understood me, with my abilities you never know.

Last night was our first night out on the town as a group which was quite exciting! See pictures above! Although it was Tuesday we managed to make it fun. We first went to the bar Hannigan and Son which is owned by an Australian and his wife. When we arrived and they said "hello" all of our faces lit up like kids on Christmas morning. It was so weird having someone speak to us in English; we felt like we were home. Next we went to a discoteca (club) called Granada 10. We arrived at about 1:30 assuming the place would be packed and awesome, but to our surprised, when we walked in, there was only a handful of americans on the dance floor who were MUCH too drunk given the time of night. By 3:30 though (yes 3:30, when normal spanish students start their night) there was a ton of people and we had a great time. Meaghan managed to make the DJ fall in love with her and she and I had a wonderful dance party with a 65 year old man (don't worry he was the only man above 24 in the club). He simply just wanted to dance and we joined it. This was the first night I went to bed without being incredibly homesick.

The adjustment is still rough but once I get into a better routine and am able to sleep at an appropriate hour (I woke up at 12 in the after noon today - but it was the first time I got more than 4 hours of sleep), hopefully things will get easier.

I tried to run for the first time today! Woohoo. My efforts were slightly pathetic given I haven't run in weeks, but hopefully I was able to burn some of this fried food off. Surprisingly there are a decent amount of runners here. My one problem here is that I couldnt fit a lot of running clothes in my suitcase, so I'm going to have to recycle them before I wash them (I know so gross). This should be interesting...

Uh oh I hear the frying pan...got to go!