The Aftermath of Paris.

Today is Friday and I consider myself fully recovered from an eventful time in Paris although Tuesday night Sarah and I had multiple (2) encounters with this man (estimated age 65) who kindly asked us if we needed a boyfriend.. while it was a nice offer, Sarah and I decided to lie and say no..he then proceeded to just stand there.. due to his age, we decided to say no once again and he walked off only to look over his shoulder multiple times and look back at us. 7min later, he's back again making sure we are positive and trying to get us to guess his age... we said we didn't have a clue and he stood there again.. and then walked away looking back consistently.. Sarah and I had a good laugh and were a little bit of a lot freaked out, but not to worry.. we were not alone in the plaza.. there were lots of other people walking around (Mom, Dad)

Wednesday was hard to go to class. I always wake up feeling like a rebel, telling myself, "I'm freaking skipping class today!" (fist pump).. but then my brain starts to work and my fist pump hand smacks me in the face. So before the butt crack of dawn, Colleen and I walk to class only to freeze in the mornings, glisten in the afternoon, and begin to freeze in the evenings.... Granada is like a woman with menopause...or a 2008 Katy Perry song (Hot n Cold) you have to prepare for all weather.. it's a lot like Texas, but with a less likely chance of rain.. and zero humidity. When I arrived to Fermin's class (Grammar) he informed us that we would be making up our midterms (they start next week... bleh)... I'm thankful to have pretty much the exact test we will be getting, but now I'm like; making up our tests:

1. Isn't our job.. you lazy Spaniard
2. Makes taking a test pointless...

whatever.. only one other class is making us make up a portion of our test... the one test I'm a little stressed about is dang POE (Speaking and Writing) I have dump truck full load of vocab to learn for that class.. but it's all good.. I'm kind of looking forward to it, and it also helps that Sarah is in that class with me as well... hopefully we can put our sarcasm away for a few hours to memorize some vocab.

Next class, like always, was POE... today was especially unbearable.. why? Smacky McSmackerson was going to town on her Bubble Tape gum (how old are you? 5?) LOL . Looking back now it's really funny because I totally saw it coming.. she whipped that roll out of her purse and then everything turned into a slow motion film... She pulled out about 3-4in. of that stuff.. opened her large trap and let her teeth and salivary glands do the rest. I didn't even have to say anything to Sarah.. she knew.. she knew exactly. Pet Peeve. I don't care to know what you are masticating in your mouth.. keep it to yourself.. unless you have a congested nose.. then it's understandable.. passing out due to oxygen deprivation is much more dangerous than me potentially punching your lights out. :D

The rest of this day was uneventful.

Thursday was different... started off rough, finished wonderfully.. God is good like that. Class today was rather uneventful.. although.. in my Civ. class, we watched this video about women during Franco's reign (Quick history):

During the reign of Franco, there were very strict rules such as:

• No PDA.. at all
• All schools had to be Catholic schools
• Women pretty much had no rights
• Divorce was not allowed
• Men were not punished for abusing their wives
• Women did not get paid the same wages
• Very, very, VERY Conservative.

Men were only expected to work during the week, and women constantly had to work in the house and with the kids while the husband sat on his rear end drinking beer, smoking a cigarette, and playing dominoes. Ridiculous. Be a real man.

With that said, in the movie, a group of old women were interviewed and they told the interviewer that they wished they were still young because:

1. They wouldn't have had to kiss their lovers/bfs in private... but one was very sure to tell the audience that they never kissed with tongue because "it was gross"... ahahahah!
2. One informed the man that she would have slept around more, but now that she is old her bones ache and it is no longer a possibility
3. And another said she would have made her husband help out with the household chores (amen)

Later tonight API took us to an international film festival and it was COOL!!! It was a bunch of short films from all over the world and they were so... just COOL! There were films from (I think) Russia/Czech Repub., Brazil/Portugal, France (this one was my favorite... it was called Vinyl.. Kristian Nichols you would have appreciated it), Turkey, and the UK... the UK one was the funniest. It was called Jenny and the Worm...there was an unexpected funny joke right at the beginning of the movie, which I would like to include,but not sure it's all that appropriate... we'll just say it had to with a girl named Jenny and if her last name was Tulse. The worm's name was Wiggly Woo. I'm considering using that as a term of endearment for Sarah and Evelyn.. we'll see. After the movie, Sarah, Ev, and I intended on going to this bar called Hannigan's to watch some drunk people sing karaoke... that fell through... just couldn't bring ourselves to do it. So we got Shwarmi instead... it's like a pita on crack.. cheap and good. After that, we went and sat in a plaza on a bench and had just a great talk and people watched for a bit. I then proceeded to stay up until 4am ( I wasn't tired), make my self a nice mug of Hot Chocolate, and catch up on my journaling.. so peaceful.

Dos besos,

Courtney