This evening I ventured on my own, around 10:00, to a cafe and ordered tea and read a very long letter. It was very enjoyable and I was able to
have several conversations in Spanish with my waiter, including a very awkward one in which I told him he didn't need to open the door for me as I made my way outside with tea and teacup, but really I did need him to open the door because I was enitrely handicapped.
I like journaling, and I spent a bit of time yesterday in the University Library Courtyard (hogwarts) writing and it was also very pleasant. I was interrupted by a friend's phone call and then was drug around the city going to shops. This is another thing
people do here: shop. shop. And they aren't even at unique Spanish shops (I need to find more of these..) they are name-brand-expensive-clothing-shops. I've only bought one dress for what turned out to be 30 American Dollars by the end of it. It was a fairly good deal, and is a pretty dress.
Anyway, I am trying to not necessarily detatch myself from the Americans here, but certainly try and explore on my own more. I am sometimes introverted and don't really have an impulse to look at the pretty fashionable items of apperal in the various tiendas.
This isn't brief, per se.
Right now I am in my room, it's almost midnight here, I have my last day of school tomorrow and on Thursday I embark on a week-long-journey to the south. I will post my itenerary after this.
That's all for now. My photograph for today is the majority of my niche here. Fr
om left to right: Sasha, Kelley (House mate), Me, Janet, Arecelie (Spelling is off, I think.)
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Your story about the waiter made me laugh. I am deeply sympthetic - I can't understand why, if people feel the need to go shopping, they do it at non-Salamanca-unique placfes. I mean, if it's a name brand, you can get it back home too, right? So then what's the point?
ReplyDelete... Maybe I just don't understand the shopping mentality, but I think your method of spending the day sounds much superior.