one of those days

Today was just one of those days.  I was feeling kind of down all day.  No particular reason.

I got up when I wanted to, but it's still really painful getting out of bed when the house is so cold.  My room is cold.  The hallway is cold.  The bathroom is cold.  My towels don't dry in my cold room.  I'm so thankful there is hot water in the shower.  I don't know what I would do if there wasn't.  Except it's painful getting out of the warm shower.  I would be in there a very long time if I wasn't trying so hard to not waste water.  It's also hard putting on clothes that have been in my cold closet for days.  They hardly help to warm me up.  But I'm managing I guess.  I just know I will be very happy to be back home with my own bathroom and a full length mirror in my room.  And heat.  Except it will be warm by then.  Hopefully.  But I don't want to be here without air conditioning either.  I'm sure that's not any more pleasant than the cold.  I just wish that I had the time and the energy and the resources to check my appearance before leaving the house.  I didn't realize that was a luxury.

Moving on from that rather dreary note... I got to school basically right on time.  I should maybe start leaving a few minutes earlier but today R kept making me eat things.  I had part of this I don't even know what that maybe had some kind of fruit in it and was rather slimy.  So in the grammar class we talked about trips some more.  Learned some more vocab.  Not that I actually remember any of it.  Then we practiced telling anecdotes using common spanish phrases and responding to other people's anecdotes with common spanish phrases.  We also did a little more with preterite and imperfect but I think it's our last day with that.  Next week we're moving on to subjunctive and tomorrow we're reviewing por and para.

In the second class we talked about spain and how it's divided and we were assigned different autonomous communities to read about and present to the class.  I did andalucía which is where sevilla is so it was pretty basic.  Then I had one of the tiny granola bars I bought during break.  It was pretty good, not terribly filling though, but still better than paying to eat out everyday.  This afternoon we finished our powerpoint about país vasco and tomorrow we will give a presentation on the information we found.

After classes finished Emily and I walked around to try and find some stores that sold cheap notebooks because I needed one for class.  We walked around some parts of the city we hadn't seen before and found a little shop that sold random things basically.  They were snack type foods and some random toys and cleaning products.  Also some souvenirs and scarves and fans.  After we got our stuff we realized they had some fuzzy socks out front and I was really tempted to get some because I only brought one pair and wear them all the time and will simply not no what to do without them while they are being washed which will eventually have to happen I suppose.  On the subject of laundry, I really don't know how that is going to work.  I think R washed some things for the other girls today but she hasn't discussed laundry with me yet.  I'm supposed to get one load each week though...

After that we walked around some more and were still hungry even having eaten the granola bars during break.  So we tried to find a little cafe that had something that sounded appetizing and also didn't cost very much.  We walked all over before eventually settling on a cafe back by the school where we had some tiny sandwiches that were also not very filling.  But really it's just a long time between lunch and dinner so I think it's going to take my appetite a little while to adjust.  I'm thinking of bringing a peanut butter sandwich with me tomorrow.  Hopefully that will help pass the time until dinner.

I don't know what I'm going to do this weekend for meal times because the other girls are going to Madrid for the weekend and they're leaving early tomorrow morning.  I count on them to carry conversation at dinner and R and J don't usually eat with us so I feel like I might be eating by myself.  But they still stand in the kitchen while we eat, so I'm afraid I might have to try and eat with them watching me and only me and try to carry on a conversation with them at the same time.  They already call me a slow eater I can't imagine what they'll think after this weekend.

Dinner tonight was actually really good.  It was quiet because H was gone, I don't know where, and J was doing something else I think.  But we had this really yummy pasta that I like a lot.  I wasn't crazy about the egg that we had with it and I feel bad but if we leave anything on our plate R is always asking if we don't like it and I can't really lie to people.  And it's not that it was bad, eggs just aren't my favorite. Today I had to mix it up a little for desert and had an apple instead of an orange.  But it was still fruit that I like so it was fine with me.

And now I'm really tired so my goal is to be in bed before 12:30.  Which gives me about 50 minutes.  I think I can do it.

buenas noches