Just got out of Intro. to Lit. and probably understood about 30% of the entire hour. I hate that class. He speaks so fast and goes on too many tangents. He writes a random word on the board every 10 minutes or so and I copy it into my notebook having no idea what it means. About thirty of these words on one page makes up my notes for each class. Wow.

Yesterday, we had to finalize our schedules so there's a slight change to mine. I dropped Art History and picked up an Independent Study of Literature. Alex, Hannah, and I make up the entire class. Our professor is young and really laid back. We only meet once a week (10am Monday) for less than an hour. All we have to do is read a Spanish novel and write a 10-page paper by the end of the term. De puta madre! While this means that I now have 4 classes on Monday (yuck), this also means that I only have 1 class at 5pm on Thursday, and only 1 class at 1pm on Fridays. Beautiful. 

I cannot believe I've been here for a month! It's finally stopped being rainy and cold (at least for a few days) and I am just starting to get the hang of pushing doors to go in and pulling to go out (I've had way too many embarrassing moments with this). I know I'm going to have such a hard time returning to the States since I really feel so at home here. I can honestly say I've never been so happy in all my life. 

I went for my third run of the entire trip today and my legs are killing me. Running through the city is so frustrating since there's so much construction going on everywhere right now. Also, it's like Spanish people don't know they're supposed to move to the side of the walkway because they've never seen a runner before (once again, exposing how obviously foreign I am). 

We had our first healthy siesta today (this is BIG). All thanks to Allison too, who flat-out asked our madre to make us less meat and more veggies. She's my hero. Today we had salmon, salad, and cooked carrots. YUM. For dessert, madre made us arroz con leche because we had mentioned how much we liked it. She is a precious woman. 

After class, Allison and I are going shopping. Rebajas (twice-annual sales) are almost over and Allison always peer pressures me into stores. 

Right now, I'm listening to Nena Daconte (new fav Spanish artist) and am wishing American iTunes had even one of her songs for sale. C'mon, USA.