Jounral 7: Sunday Feb 15, 2009 7:31pm, Spain time
I haven’t written anything in a while. I’ve just been down to the same old thing. I haven’t met with any intercambios in a while, but I have some scheduled for tomorrow and Tuesday. I hope they go well. This past Friday was nuts! We were out forever. I had a blast. I got into the pimpest club in Alicante, Swing, for free. A friend from Ireland, Alex, got like twenty of us in. He’s considered the king of Alicante. It’s good to have connections. I got low! I ended up hanging out with this one American, Robbie, and about four Japanese students. It’s really funny talking to Japanese people in Spanish. I didn’t leave Swing until like after 7am and then watched the sun rise over the Mediterranean. How incredible is that?! I was out till eight and completely dead at the end of the night/beginning of the morning.
I found a Baptist church! Probably the only Baptist church in Alicante, let alone Spain. It was cool. It seemed as if I was at any other Baptist church, except everything was in Spanish. I had a good time. I needed that. I didn’t go today though… sleep seemed too important. I’m pretty sure God’ll forgive me. Other than that, I just have class as usual. I’ve been swimming so much and I’m loving every minute of it. Ha. I was in the shower and I recognized someone… it’s so awkward to recognize someone in the shower. I didn’t realize who it was until later… I didn’t know that person, but I saw him and a few other people speaking English on my bus home once. They weren’t of any English speaking country…I think I’ll ask them next time where they’re from. I really need more international friends.
I’ve been talking to Pepa (program director) about seeing if I can stay here longer. What I’d end up doing would be taking my spring break at the time I would have left, around the 4th of April, and then coming back at the end of the month… like the 22nd…and starting another grammar class. I don’t know if I’ll be able to do that though. Pepa sent an email to the head of the program in Sevilla the other day. I have mixed feelings about that. If I can do it and it not be too expensive, I’ll do it, but at this point I’d really like to go home. I never knew how odd it would be to be this far away from home. I’d love to do something familiar---like eat movie popcorn or sit in my family room and watch House with my sister or walk to the caf at Georgetown and sit in the caf for two hours and be social. We’ll see what happens.
Jacob