Monday, June 12, 2006

Hooooome stretch

Woke up Saturday morning at around 10:30ish, got dressed and ready and read some of "El acero de Madrid" up to act III. Let me tell you, it feels so good to only have to study for ONE exam for once. Wow, that just shows how hellish this week has been. Ah well, it's the home stretch! Almost done, I can do this. Lunch was at 2:30, it was half good and half bad. First we had salmorejo which made me very happy (I heart Maruja's salmorejo), then that really gross pork that I ate last Wednesday. Remember that stuff? Yeah, gross. I only took 2 pieces and put little-to-no sauce on them and ate them as fast as possible. I had to feign being too full to eat another piece (they're really small and thinly sliced). For dessert Maruja put out a bowl of this weird looking fruit I had never seen before. They're small and deep purple and squishy. Maruja told us that you just eat them like a peach or a plum (except there's no pit). They were really good and really sweet! Maruja told us that you shouldn't eat them too often because they're full of sugar and they'd make you fat. Ha. She told us that they're called "brevas". Note to self: look up brevas. After lunch I looked up breva...it's a young fig. Ohhhh! So it's fig, but ya know, before being dried. It all makes sense, they taste like figs minus the whole dry part. They're really good, I may just prefer raw figs to dried figs. Turns out that there's a separate Spanish word for dried figs: higa. So funny that they're completely different words. Ohhhhh Spanish. So I packed up my crap after that and went to Starbucks for another eventful day of studying. I typed up most of my Lope notes, to be very surprised by how good of notes I actually took despite my not paying attention a lot. I guess that it's a testament to how poorly Mercedes de los Reyes (our prof.) teaches and how most of what she says has no relevance. Hehe, oh Mercedes de los Reyes. So I typed up my notes and read half of act III of "El acero de Madrid". I really like that play...ya know, I really like Lope de Vega. He's like the Shakespeare of Spain, and all of his works were written in the Barroque period (like Shakespeare). His works are very similar in terms of theme and content, the only difference being language. Hence, I really do enjoy Lope. Good guy, that Lope. But yeah, I've really enjoyed reading his plays, I must say. I've really enjoyed everything that I've learned in my classes...and I really learned a lot this semester. It's crazy, and I'm not talking Spanish learning, I'm talking legitimate University academic learning! Wow. That's way cool, dude. Anyways, I then went home for dinner, which consisted of fried fish filets (she's been fish filet happy lately), homemade oil/vinegar cole slaw (which I very much enjoy), and then figs and plums for dessert. I'm going to miss these meals at home. I really love Maruja's cooking (which I'm sure you all know) and am reeeeally going to miss it. And her. I'm going to miss this goshdarn apartment. Let's not talk about that, though. I'm in denial about leaving. Anyways, after dinner, despite my complete lack of motivation, I sat down and finished "El acero de Madrid". Yes, I was done reading everything for Lope (except for some random intros and summaries)! Now I really would have to concentrate on studying. I then read some overviews of the plays that Jordi gave us in tutoria, and went to sleep at around 1 or 2. Woo woo.

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