only 10 days 'til I make a wild adventure in Barcelona

It’s one of those really delicious October days. An agreeably light rain this morning brought in rolling clouds, their color varying from deep gray to blinding white. The sun had been peeking through for the past hour at least, maybe longer, but I napped for over two hours and only woke up about an hour ago.

Last night Florient and I ran again, I’m not sure how far. We were gone about an hour, and fifteen minutes of that was walking and ten minutes was stretching. It was probably about four miles.

Today I got my library card at DEFLE and checked out two grammar workbooks. Before my nap I did a couple dozen exercises, corrected them, and then looked up the words I didn’t know. I think this is going to be a successful study regime.

Right now I’m sitting at Surtaki, one of the restaurants universitaires, trying to profit from free Internet and utterly failing. No one else seems to have a problem with it. It’s free for me to access the Internet here and doesn’t subtract from the hours I pay for in my dorm. I only have ten hours remaining there for the rest of October—yikes! I need to lay off the Daily Show. Anyway, usually there are about ten bazillion people with computers here who could help me connect, but today the only person is an Asian student having a very intense video conference on his laptop in a language I don’t understand. I’m not even going to try to get him to help me; I’ll just have to post this later.

I’m waiting for Ethan. He’s supposed to meet me here to give me my absentee ballot (which finally arrived at his host family’s house this week) in exchange for a borrowed copy of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Ethan’s desperate for books, and I managed to track down the British edition of the book from Amandine. She obviously speaks English at a very advanced level if she can understand Harry Potter (she’s currently reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows), though I’ve never spoken with her in English.

On a side note, I’m afraid I’m a boring blogger. My classes seem a dull subject, and the really quotidian things never come to mind. It’s also probably really annoying to be reading about my friends all the time. The problem is that lately I have had an utter lack of adventure, something I hope to change soon, and especially on our trip to Barcelona. If there’s something you want to ask me, or something you want to hear about, send me a word by commenting on this post. As I said in an earlier post, I did change the setting so that everyone can comment, whether or not one has a Google account.

To turn the tables, what’s new with all of you? I’m bored lately and a bit homesick, and I would love a note or a comment on what’s happening on that side of the pond.