And with November ending, do you know what that means?¿! YES! You´re right. second semester will almost be finished. And then I can finally publish the 1,000,000,000,000 blog drafts that I need to put finishing touches on before I post them. With my current class schedule I´ve had like zero...ZERO time do do anything besides get lost in sines cosines, trig functions, and titration sodium reactions. So once I wind down things will pick up. Second semester shouldn´t be half as bad as this one.
Looking for a university is a full time job. If anyone is aware of writing/blog scholarships please let me know, it´d be greatly appreciated.
Off topic, I know.
I would like to extend a thank you for all your comments, I am working on replying to everyone, as I hope no one thinks I fell off the side of the Earth. I´m here, yes, just...burried somewhere under my homework.
December break I plan to edit a bunch of videos, so hopefully that will turn out nice. Bonus ones include commentary of myself and Jake while walking around Madrid. You don´t want to miss ém.
Me, myself, and I. I miss speaking Spanish and am trying to find someone to practice with soon before I go nuts. And I have backwards translation problems, as I can´t think of a word in English, as the Spanish word does not translate correctly. This doesn´t happen often, just once in a while.
It´s cold here. Like today, really. Or maybe yesterday. Which brought me to the next topic...
NOVEMBER. If I had any regrets, it was probably just one. That is, that I did not write a single entry in my journal last November. Somehow I put it in my closet and must have forgotten about it until I found it again while searching for my science book, or something. I don´t quite remember.
But I have enough pictures to make up for it. That and videos. So I can remember what went on more or less.
One last note before I head off to study yet again.
Yesterday I was walking from my car into the school. The type of cold brought back a memory. I couldn´t pin point what it was at first. But it was the first time in a long time that I felt that way.
I still don´t know what triggered the memory. Maybe it was the color of the sky and the temperature of the blowing wind. But it reminded me of walking to the local metro stop by my house, or standing outside waiting for a bus.
But it wasn´t the happiest feeling. No. This was rather depressing, chilling, and just...being by myself. Lonely. I walked from my car across campus and felt the same feeling for the first time, in a long time.
Two days ago I wasn´t depressed, definitely not. And I don´t think I was that depressed while being gone. But I just felt a sense of loneliness, being by myself in the cold. Madrid got colder than I expected.
So what is my point of writing? I don´t know. It was a weird realization that reminded me of many of the phases I went through in Madrid. Walking to the metro by myself so many times got a bit lonely. Last year was the first time I had come to terms with what ¨being alone¨ feels like. Even if it is a few minute walk to the metro, it could feel like walking through a world stuck in time.
November was a good month, yes. There were a lot of unknowns last November. Harry Potter, the hike, the American Store, roaming the streets, chillin with friends, that was all great. I really started to connect with the other exchangers. Now school? That´s a tough one. I still had a lot of things I didn´t understand about the school. But I guess some of those still haven´t been answered, so it´s ok.
Have a happy early "day of thanks" as it's called, in Spanish: "día de gracias."
THANK YOUU!(:
You know who you are.
-mb
