So I left off with Mondays in Spain which aren't getting much better. Except now, I always remember that Mondays mean I'm exactly x amount of weeks from being home, so that helps. Don't get me wrong, I'm loving Spain and I'm loving being here, but I'm pretty homesick. I think I had to get over a homesick hump this week, but now I'm doing much better.
Last week we finished our culture class, and though I wish we could have learned more, it's really nice to have one less class. I got 100% on my presentation and the only other grade is from our final exam, so I'm sure I'll be set in that class. And now that we're finished with classes this week, we only have 11 more class periods left. Isn't that crazy? I can't even believe how slowly and quickly this has gone. I love figuring out all the weeks and days. It makes it easier to not be homesick and easier to make sure I do everything here that I want to.
Today is day #37
Starting week #5
Weeks left in Santander: 3
Days left in Spain: 24
We had a lot of changes happen in our group once the end of July got here. We took our last excursion (details soon) as a whole group, the grad students left, and so did our director, Pablo. Pablo had told us (and reassured our parents) that we wouldn't need him after the first month because we would be pros at living in Spain by then. He was pretty much right! ;) We can get around on our own, we want to make our own plans now, and almost everybody is traveling for the last 3 weekends. So far we have a few things planned for our weekends. Today we're taking the bus to go to the mall which we haven't been to before. My goals for today and tomorrow are to start finishing up buying gifts to bring home! Tomorrow we're headed back to a little town called Liérganes about 40 minutes away from here by train. It's a super cute little town that has different kinds of tourist shops than we've been seeing, and there are some mini-mountains we want to climb.
This mini-mountain!
I have to go eat some lunch now, but I'll try to get a post up about our trip to Santiago de Compostela this weekend before I forget all of the cool things.
Love & hugs!
