Feeling old and wise

Tuesday...and hell week continues. Woke up at 9:30 and walked to Starbucks by the University to meet up with Courtney to study for Historia del Cine (our exam was the next day...yeah, hell week). We studied there for three and a half hours and then I went home for lunch which turned out to be one of the best lunches Maruja´s made in a loooong time (thank god). It was bacalao dorado (one of my favorite dishes!), and a really good seafood, corn, and artichoke salad. Yummmmm. Then for dessert we had this homemade yogurt that Maruja made: it has a creamy vanilla-y taste with a hint of lemon, and you mix in chocolate sprinkles. Hey, remember Dannon Sprinklins? Those little kid yogurt things with an attached sprinkle pack? Oh man, memories. Thanks for sparking that, Maruja. But anyways, the yogurt was absolutely delicious. I was very, very happy with that meal. After lunch I went straight to Starbucks in los Remedios where I studied my brains out for Cine. While studying this group of American girls approached me and asked if I spoke English. Then they told me that they had just gotten to Sevilla for a 3-week study abroad program and they wanted to know where any good bars were in los Remedios and where they could buy jeans. I told them that I was not the right person to ask about jeans, but I told them about Cadillac and La Quesería in los Remedios, but that they should just go to Alfalfa. They told me that they had gone, but they were sketched out by it and didn´t know what to do there. Aw, I remember when I was like that back in January. I told them that they just need to go later at night when it picks up and people are friendlier. Then they told me that they went to Lehigh and they were very surprised by my familiarity with their college. They then asked me how long I had been there and I said since January, and they all gave me looks of absolute shock and went, "Whooooooooa". In retrospect, January does seem like a long time ago, but at the same time it doesn´t feel like I´ve been here that long. It´s so crazy. Then they asked me if I had any advice for them. Oh man! I´m not yet prepared for that question! I didn´t know what to say! I felt like I was back at UofM giving prospective abroad students some adivising or something. It was so surreal. I feel like an oldie now. How weird...I´m basically a study abroad vet. Wow. I guess I´m just old and wise now...sigh. Anyways, I continued studying until 9 when I walked home for dinner. For dinner which was a tuna, olive, tomato, egg and olive oil salad, grilled pork slices which actually wasn´t too bad, baked potatoes, and that good yogurt again for dessert. Then I went to my room and studied Cine until 1:30 when I called it a night. Oh yeah, and our hallway reaked of shoe polish and our bathroom door was closed with the light on for awhile. At first we found it strange that Maruja would shine her shoes in our bathroom, but then she didn´t come out for awhile. We couldn´t hear any noise coming from the bathroom and started getting concerned after awhile. After a bit Stacey investigated and it turned out that nobody was in the bathroom, the light was just left on. Oh man. It would have been bad if we had to deal with an unconscious Spanish lady at 1am...especially since I had to be up at 6am for an exam. Hehe. Well, life was good and fine. And I went to bed nervous, of course for my exam the next day. Consequently, I slept terribly. Damn hell week.