I Broke a Spanish Bathroom

Sunday January 27, 2008

Today everyone and their mothers were using Skype in the city of Seville. I have never had any problems with connection, but today was horrible. I look forward to Sundays because Sunday is the day of the week that I set aside a couple of hours dedicated to talking to friends, posting blogs and checking and sending e-mails. Today was not a successful day. It was stressful not being able to talk to people from back home. I think I keep my sanity because of Sundays but today just aided to my insanity. I feel bad for not being able to use the computer much here and when I do get time it is pretty limited. A lot of the other students have WiFi in or around their houses so it’s convenient for them, but for Allison, Sam and I that is not the case. I like it because we aren’t as dependent on the Internet as some of the students are but at the same time it can get frustrating when you have days like today. Enough of that…now lets lighten the mood with a funny story. After waking up around 11am this morning I decided that it would be a good idea to shower. I head into the bathroom and get all ready to go and hop in the shower. I pull the curtain back and CRASH. The entire curtain bar that holds the shower curtain up came crashing down on me, metal rod, plastic rings, shower curtain and all. I had no idea what to do, holy cow I had just broken our host family’s bathroom. So I string the shower curtain back onto the rod, which is still half dangling from the right hand side, and try to stealthily reattach the rod and curtain to the top of the wall. I tend to be vertically challenged so this wasn’t as easy as you’d assume. I somehow managed to balance the curtain on my knee and stand on my tiptoes to put the bathroom back together.