Random Excitement...

So... I am thinking about going on a cruise. WHAT?!?! I know!!! See, here´s the thing, it probably won´t happen, but for now I´m just going to be excited while I´m thinking about it. I have the whole month of January off and want to travel around Europe. Stacey is supposed to be coming here and we were going to travel together. However, we need to plan SOON if we are going to do it so that we can book our hostels and all that fun stuff. And, she and I just haven´t been having the best communication about it recently. So, I was thinking, what would help me to see a lot of different places and not have to plan so much? Right, a CRUISE!!! So, I´m just looking right now to see if there are any cheap cruises that I can talk Stacey into going on with me and another friend around Europe or the Mediterranean. Fun, huh?

Another random thing, I get to go get my student card this week from the immigration police! I already had my appointment a month ago to turn in all of my documents and get fingerprinted and stuff, but then I had to wait a month to be able to get my card. So, I´m thinking tomorrow´s agenda will include visiting the bank to pay my 5 euro fee and the immigration police to pick up my card. How exciting!

Okay, now for something weird... yesterday was kind of strange at my apartment. First off, I slept in until 10ish and took a shower. After my shower I could not get warm. I was huddled in a sweatshirt and sweatpants underneath my 3 blankets shivering for about an hour when my host mom walked in to hand me some clean clothes. (Yes, my host mom does my laundry for me, I know, AWESOME!) She asked if I was okay and I just told her I was cold, but that I was fine. Then, the buzzer rang and she was like "Oh, mi hija!" Meaning, once again, I was not informed that the family was coming over for lunch! So her daughter, husband, and two kids came for lunch and while we were eating, my host mom told everyone that I was cold. They had a long discussion about it and decided that I need to start eating breakfast because that is why I was so cold. The son-in-law also decided that I need to start drinking juice with my breakfast because it will help me a lot. So he told my host mom what to buy to make the juice that I should drink every morning. Finally, lunch ended.

I spent pretty much the rest of the day in my room just relaxing, playing war and solitaire with myself, and enjoying not doing anything since I went on a full day trip to a monastery in Girona and out to a club (until 3 AM) the day before. Here is the really awkward part... After dinner was over and we were still sitting at the table, I told my host mom that I was going out to get coffee at 10 with some friends. She then started talking to me about my classes and everything. I told her the classes were okay but that I just didn´t like the subject matter very much. Then, she told me that I was just feeling homesick and that of course I didn´t like my classes because I couldn´t understand. She went on to tell me that I don´t go out with friends enough just because I spent the whole day in the apartment! It was so strange! For about 10 minutes I was told by both my host mom and dad that I would be happier when my friend got here in January to travel with me and that I would be happier if I were to just go out more and not think about home so much. She also told me that I should take some vitamins and they would make me happier... The irony here is that I always feel guilty for spending so much time out and no time in the apartment! On the one day that I decided to just relax and not go out, it is interpreted that I am incredibly homesick!!! WEIRD! So, I guess the moral of the story is that cultural differences really do come out here at times. On the other hand, I won´t feel so bad about spending lots of time out and away from the apartment anymore!

That´s all for today... updates soon to come on the cruise!!!