So much for the writing more!

Sorry for my long silence! I suppose I´ve been busy.

Everything is still going really well. Right now I´m studying for a philosophy test over Descartes. It´s interesting and all, but a lil hard to get motivated to study anything right now. I´m am just so excited for the next couple months!! It should be great.

In 17 days we are going to the South!! I cannot wait. It´s a trip that Rotary has organized for all the exchange students here in Spain. We´ll be gone from Feb. 27th (also my mom´s birthday, super important too:D) until March 8th. The best part is that we´ll be missing all that school! And it´s gonna be so gorgeous down there. We´ll get to see Granada, Sevilla, Caceras, and more. Almost all the exchange students are going too.

Then we´ll get back and a couple weeks later we have a break for Semana Santa that lasts until April. Then April 18th my parents and grandma are coming. We are in the process of planning our trip. First they are flying into Pamplona, and we´ll spend 4 days here, and one of those days we´ll pry go to San Sebastian, then to Madrid. We´d like to go to Paris and Rome too while we´re here in Europe. It´s a lil complicated though because trains don´t pass borders. We´re getting it all figured out though. It´ll be awesome.

Then I´ll be coming home before I know it. I´m going to go ahead and just fly back with my parents on May 6th or 7th. I can´t remember. I have mixed feelings about that, of course. I´m ready to be back with my family and christians, honestly. But I´m growing attached to ol Spain. It´s a pretty great place I do believe.

I think I´ll look back at this year and just be in awe, for the rest of my life. First of all that I brought myself over here! Still can´t believe that I didn´t back out. Then just at how amazing it was to be living in a different country, learning spanish, the culture, the people, the city life. I´ve become so much more independent. I know that for a fact. I´ve become a lot better with dirrections too. I know this city fairly well for a small'town kansan.

I don´t know what I¨m going to do when I get back. I´d like to get a job where I can use my spanish a lot. That shouldn´t be too tough since half the population in Ulysses is hispanic. The spanish will be slightly different and I will have to learn how to use Usted and Ustedes more.

I´m still planning on going to ACU. I´m pretty much sold on it from all the good things that I have heard about it from Shasta, Jessica, Lexi, Barry, and whoever else. I want to follow in the path of some of the people that I admire most. It has to be a good school to draw in such great people.

I don´t know what I want to study at this point. Although, I seem to always go back to my dream of working with abandoned babies in like an abandoned baby shelter in a foreign country. That, to me, would be the most rewarding thing I could do in my life. For that reason I want to be a nurse or something in medicine. Even if one of my least favorite subjects is chemistry.

Anyway... we´ll see! I should sign off for now, and try to focus on Descartes. Such fun. Adiós por ahora amigos míos.