School's Out

I had my last class and test today at the University of Alicante.  I got a B overall for this section of the course.  Fine by me,  I don't really care about grades, more about the level of Spanish I learned.  My Spanish is good.  You're probably thinking I should, I do, just not as much as the 2 girls in my class from Chicago.  ,Who in no offense to Justin or the Fredin's over yonder, but if I had to live with someone who spoke with that accent, I would kill myself. I am so tired of hearing them pronounce Alicante, as Alic"aaaaaa"nte.  Holy smokes!!! it can get intolerable at times being in a group with Chicagoans, we have about 15 in the USAC group. :)  (all in good fun)

This past week I have hung out with Paula, kept the routine of waking up early, reading scripts, eating a good breakfast.  I love it, it's something I look forward to.  I even took a really long nap one day and stillwas on schedule because I had been doing it for so long.  I know though that it will eventually get out of sync, 30 days makes a habit, making a habit.

We had a going away dinner party for USAC at a local restaurante in Alicante, complete with a Flamenco band.  After dinner the band started to play and I got up, moved some of the chairs and table out of the way and invited some of the students to dance.  We tore it up doing salsa, and later in the night "thriller" etc, eventually the Andrew Fox show. You know I loved it.

I leave Friday for Barcelona and then Germany as mentioned in my previous post.  This week will be full of exercise, reading ( I got a new book "Gang Leader for a Day" I think some of you have read it.  It's about the grad-student sociologist who goes into a Chicago project and get's to know one of the gangs and studies the inner workings of the economy, life, etc.  Interesting book.

Not much else to write about the week, all is well, excited to come home.  I was reading in our re-entry packet about culture shock coming back into the U.S, is that it might be just the same as going to another country, and that it warned me, that my friends and family may not like the "new you" that they'll expect you to be the same.  First, I'm sure that won't happen with not liking, and secondly it'll probably be the other way around.  I can already just look back and see how much stuff we waste.  The huge cars, driving to the Fredins house, to church, come on it's around the corner, I would walk that in 4 minutes top!!! slightly kidding, not really.

Hasta pronto

F