Sunday February 10, 2008
Today I woke up and did homework for 3 hours and afterwards we had a “going away” lunch that was amazing for/made by Fatima. After lunch I did a little bit more homework and then headed to the Plaza by school to get on the Internet to talk to my family and friends. While in transit I ran into Sara and Josh. After chatting for a couple of minutes Josh ended up coming with me to the Plaza for Internet. When we finally got to the Plaza the Internet didn’t work. I don’t know if they started to realize that the plaza wasn’t password protected or what, but the Internet connection had a password now. So it was already past the time when I talk to my parents and friends, and I was frustrated. We headed to a nearby bar that I thought had WiFi. When we arrived I promptly asked the bartender and they did so we ended up buying a couple of Cola Cao’s and staying. Josh got his Internet to work, but I didn’t have the same luck. I downed my Cola Cao, after moving to 3 different places/tables in the bar, and headed out in search of WiFi. I ended up sitting on the ground in the Alameda next to a huge pillar. I could pick up free WiFi from that place, so it worked for me. I acquired a lot of new friends, all small children, because they all play in the Alameda. The computer amazed them all, it was almost like some sort of freakish force field and I even had one child try to push a few buttons. Afterwards he insisted on showing me his doll and his brother’s truck, all while his mother begged him to move on. After finally making connection, an hour later, thankfully my contacts at home were still around. I checked my e-mail, updated the blog, looked for internships and talked to people from back home. After signing off the computer, I was in search for “victims” for my survey that I was conducting for my 15-minute speech on immigration in class this Wednesday. I thought it would be interesting, and the people, there were four of them, were pretty nice to me and answered my questions. For the record, whenever you ask a Spaniard their opinion be ready for a long and passionate explanation. After feeling successful I headed home and hung out with the roomies for a bit. We play a couple games of Phase 10 and then ate dinner a little later. After dinner Encarna came in and told us that she had news for us. Uh-oh…what did we do? She ended up telling us that she has a friend that has an apartment in Conil, which is a beach near Cadiz on the west coast of Spain, which she is willing to rent to us for 5 days, for 4 people, for only $160 Euros. SIGN US UP! We have a long weekend on February 27-March 2 because of “El Dia de Andalucia” and we are going to take full advantage of that opportunity! Aaron will be here then and for only $10 Euros a night…on the beach…how could you pass that up? The night ended on that high note and now we are planning a 4-night 5-day trip to the beach! HOW EXCITING! (It’s O.K. to be jealous, I understand that a beach is much more appealing than a foot of snow.)
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