Long Time No Talk
So just to do a little shout out, my best friend Beth is pretty much the most awesome person ever. I got home today to discover a package from her FILLED with candy, PEANUT BUTTER, mad lips, gum, socks that have aromatheraphy in them, and just to say the least she is the coolest person in the world. It was the BEST suprise ever!
Anyways, I realize it has been QUITE a long time since I last wrote on this and so much has happened. You would all be proud to know that in my spanish content classes (cinema y historia) I did well on my midterms! What a surprise for me and probably for all of you, if you remember my first entry of not even knowing Hola, and now I am writing about the history of Espana....IN SPANISH! so I got a 90% on historia, and a 92.5% on my cinema....SWEET! TO bad these grades don't go to my GPA!
But then after my exams were donezo, my friend Jen and I went to Paris for about 4 days and it was fabulous! Her family friends live in Paris, but they were at their country home for the week and told us we could use their apartment. SO we had a AMAZING apt. in Paris, for a week and right next to the metro. And let me just say that I am in LOVEEEE with Paris! Everyone gives the parisans a bad rap, but I could not remember a single word of the 3 years of French I took and spoke pretty poor French, but they were all so nice! But Paris is EXPENSIVE! I spent a romantic night with Jen atop the EIffel Tower and we saw the Mona Lisa and went to Versailles because the old neighbor's daughter took us around Paris the first day we were there and she was so nice!
ah Paris!
Paris at night
ALso I probably gained about 75 pounds because all we ate was Brie (she ate goat cheese) and baguettes for 5 days and probably for every meal because there was a little supermarche around the corner from our apartment!
And of course when I returned to Spain I was bitter and refused to realize I had to leave Paris! It was so nice to have an apt with a good friend and it made me wanna learn French allll over again! Which is a BIG.....no no...HUGE deal because my mother could not even get me to learn, especially want to learn, a language my entire life.
Tambien (also) yesterday was my best friend Jen's 21st birthday.....needless to say class was not fun today. But it was a fun night. We went to a little Italiano place for dinner and then to Calle Betis (where everyone hangs out and drinks before the discotecas) and I bought her a crown and a magic wand....the wand was a bad idea....it became a weapon by the end of the night. But all in all we had a pretty awesome night....danced the night away and I warned Carmen, my host senorita that Jen would probably be coming home with me....which she did and we proceeded to spoon (another word for cuddle for you old people) for the rest of the night, until I went to class and she stayed in my bed while Carmen and I made fun of her for being barracha(wasted in espanol). So needless to say, it was a fun fun night AND my friend Kate and I had a HUGE presentation earlier that day, and clearly I did it on discotecas because she and I kinda have that down to an artform and it went really well! SO all in all....its been a pretty good time AND my novio (boyfriend) and madre are coming to Sevilla in a week or so which will be amazzzing!
Hasta la vista baby, and I promise to actually update next week because the whole reason we were in Paris was that we had days off cause of Nov. 1 ....all saints day for you good christians
peace out
stay cool
and more to come asap!
Anyways, I realize it has been QUITE a long time since I last wrote on this and so much has happened. You would all be proud to know that in my spanish content classes (cinema y historia) I did well on my midterms! What a surprise for me and probably for all of you, if you remember my first entry of not even knowing Hola, and now I am writing about the history of Espana....IN SPANISH! so I got a 90% on historia, and a 92.5% on my cinema....SWEET! TO bad these grades don't go to my GPA!
But then after my exams were donezo, my friend Jen and I went to Paris for about 4 days and it was fabulous! Her family friends live in Paris, but they were at their country home for the week and told us we could use their apartment. SO we had a AMAZING apt. in Paris, for a week and right next to the metro. And let me just say that I am in LOVEEEE with Paris! Everyone gives the parisans a bad rap, but I could not remember a single word of the 3 years of French I took and spoke pretty poor French, but they were all so nice! But Paris is EXPENSIVE! I spent a romantic night with Jen atop the EIffel Tower and we saw the Mona Lisa and went to Versailles because the old neighbor's daughter took us around Paris the first day we were there and she was so nice!
ah Paris!
Paris at nightALso I probably gained about 75 pounds because all we ate was Brie (she ate goat cheese) and baguettes for 5 days and probably for every meal because there was a little supermarche around the corner from our apartment!
And of course when I returned to Spain I was bitter and refused to realize I had to leave Paris! It was so nice to have an apt with a good friend and it made me wanna learn French allll over again! Which is a BIG.....no no...HUGE deal because my mother could not even get me to learn, especially want to learn, a language my entire life.
Tambien (also) yesterday was my best friend Jen's 21st birthday.....needless to say class was not fun today. But it was a fun night. We went to a little Italiano place for dinner and then to Calle Betis (where everyone hangs out and drinks before the discotecas) and I bought her a crown and a magic wand....the wand was a bad idea....it became a weapon by the end of the night. But all in all we had a pretty awesome night....danced the night away and I warned Carmen, my host senorita that Jen would probably be coming home with me....which she did and we proceeded to spoon (another word for cuddle for you old people) for the rest of the night, until I went to class and she stayed in my bed while Carmen and I made fun of her for being barracha(wasted in espanol). So needless to say, it was a fun fun night AND my friend Kate and I had a HUGE presentation earlier that day, and clearly I did it on discotecas because she and I kinda have that down to an artform and it went really well! SO all in all....its been a pretty good time AND my novio (boyfriend) and madre are coming to Sevilla in a week or so which will be amazzzing!
Hasta la vista baby, and I promise to actually update next week because the whole reason we were in Paris was that we had days off cause of Nov. 1 ....all saints day for you good christians
peace out
stay cool
and more to come asap!
posted by Deirdre at 11:17 PM
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