Last night I had a dream, in which, I was returning to the U.S...when I woke up this morning, I was confused for about 1 sec. as to why I was still in Spain... but I figured it out. I was happy I wasn't in the U.S. Like I said, 2 weeks is the perfect amount.
Moving on....
As I was walking about the cold streets of Spain yesterday, I realized I forgot to add a very important detail about my trip to Sevilla. So... we are on the bus going to Sevilla and I start to get bored.. I'm looking out the window and I see "Sevilla 70km"... I think to myself, "I wonder how many miles that is." So, I whip out my iPod, tap the calculator app and figure it out (impressed yet?). For some strange reason, I found this to be fun so I decided I would do the speed limit, as well as other cities distances. Right as I'm in the middle of converting kph (kilometers per hour) to mph, I hear a, "Courtney what the [heck] are you doing?" (it was Kevin... the kid with the belt buckle) I turn around slightly embarrassed and explain to him what I'm doing. Surprisingly, he sounded impressed. I then attempted to explain all the different conversions you have to do to get from km--->miles. He told me that he would never have been able to figure that out, and then said something to me that NO ONE has ever said to me in my life. "Courtney, you are just [freaking] good at math" I just about fell out of my seat laughing... ok that was a bit exaggerated, but I did give him a hearty chuckle and explained that I am definitely NOT good/smart at math (people can vouch for that). The only way I would consider myself even remotely smart at math is the fact that I'm smart enough to sucker someone who is good at math to help me. Which may be more beneficial in life than actually knowing math... hmm not sure. LOL . Moral of this story? There's a first time for everything.
....and we're moving....
So this week was officially my last week of school. I have to learn ZERO new material, and all I have to do is attend two classes next thrus. and fri. then it's finals week. (gasp!.. hardly) I have recently found out the following:
- My grammar final is pretty much a take home
- The lowest final grade I can get in my geography class is an 8 (B+)... regardless of how poorly I do on my test
- My art final is a group final (3 people max.).. but I'm actually going to study good for that one.. I don't trust the people in my class to do the same.
- Civ and Cult. will be fine... I also have to turn in a 3-5pg. "research paper".. cake.
- I have no idea about POE.. we shall see. LOL
So as you can see, I'm sitting pretty as far as finals go. I'm very thankful... this will not be the case next semester. Last Wednesday in POE, I was hammin' it up with Sonia during a class exercise, and for some reason or another, she said my name out loud... Mistake. Not even 5 seconds after she said it, Sarah Moe chimes in with an almost perfect imitation of "Cooney"and the rest of the class let out a fairly hearty chuckle. I feel that Sarah's remark was a result of word vomit.. only because she said it so quickly after Sonia. Sonia then looked at me with that, "How the HECK do you say your name?!" look. I repeated it for her, and after going back and forth 2-3 times, she still couldn't nail it. I told her not to worry about it. Honestly, Cooney has really grown on me.
To celebrate the ending of school, we decided to go and have drinks (doesn't necessarily mean alcoholic) and tapas at POE and then hit up a teteria. We had a good convo. at POE.. I'm not really at liberty to say what it was about, but don't worry... it wasn't anything bad. Ha. After POE we decided to go to our teteria, but much to our surprise, the guy told us it was closing. We were so bummed. Magically, we saw another teteria that was open and even had FREE WiFi! (we didn't need the WiFi, but places like that are IMPOSSIBLE to find here) We knew this place was a winner. So we walk in, take a seat, and a perky, little Indian man comes up to us and asks, "Hablan Español?" we replied with, "Si" and he went and got us some menus. After delivering the menus and giving us time to decide, the perky, little Indian came back and took our order... he was just the funniest little thing; he never missed out on an opportunity to make fun of the way we spoke or acted. We liked him. At one point during our time there, he came over to us and asked, "Why are you talking in English? Do you need to practice your English?" We told him "touche" and continued to speak in English. haha. A little while later, perky little Indian started to subtly turn off lights and we took that as our cue to get the heck out. As we were leaving, PLI came over to us and said thank you for coming and then proceeded to ask us our names. Of course he got stuck on my name (thanks Dad... I guess you never really intended on your daughter traveling to a Spanish speaking country... it's ok.. she didn't either. ;) ). PLI eventually did get my name and he said it quite clearly. I was impressed. I then proceeded to ask him his name and he told us it was Eunice.
EUNICE! how freaking amazing is that?! That was the moment I fell in love with this man... we have already decided we were going to be regulars. Homeboy down the road make a BIG mistake closing his shop early... that's all I got to say. Just when we think we've experienced it all, we experience more. It's situations like this that make me glad I still have 2 more weeks.
So... Colleen is gone for 10days... I'm literally sitting here in silence, well.. James Morrison is singing to me, but... you know. I feel so incredibly calm, relaxed, and just flat out good. Not because Colleen was the cause of me not feeling like the three adjectives listed above, but because I am by myself. Ah. I'm sure after a week or so I will be ready for her to come home, but until that time... :D
As far as the Daniel Sanders life lessons go, I have a doozy for you today... I am going to preface this by saying that this is one of his most idiotic statements yet... and had I been back in The States on Redmond street, I probably would have smacked him.... multiple times. I considered withdrawing the title of BD from him.. yep that serious.. This is Daniel Sanders on helmets while riding a motorcycle... I will never stop trying to convince him to wear one every.single.time.:
"If I'm going to get hurt riding a motorcycle, then I'm going to get hurt riding a motorcycle.... but for the sake of convenience and being cool..."
He also redeemed himself with this quote as well... I can't remember the discussion, but apparently it was about fire:
"What happens when you mix fire with fire? You get a big @$$ fire."
Crazy, crazy kid.
My geography professor didn't know what a truck was (makes sense).. the other kid from Texas and I's jaw pretty much dropped to the ground..
Grooveshark was down today... at that moment, I officially deemed this day bad.. then I checked again, and it was back up... this day has been redeemed to good.
Dos besos,
Courtney
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