Hey.

Random thoughts

Yo, bars and restaurants need to chill with their choices of pictures to clarify which bathroom is which. Fuckin everywhere its a picture or a vague like drawing that they think is fun but in real life its fucking confusing. Especially when I’m drunk. Like one bar has a like weird Andy Warhol drawing of Mick Jagger with long hair, which looks like a girl, and the other is another weird picture of Marilyn Monroe. Like, chill out. Just do the normal block figure dude and the girl with the dress and stop trying to confuse me.

Fucking shit is going down in Red Sox Nation right now  and I have absolutely no idea what is happening. I need Sportscenter. Seriously when I get home I am going to watch Sportscenter for like 4 days straight.

Ok so I was in legitimate sports withdrawl on Monday. Like I was actually depressed because I had not/could not watch Sportscenter. Tkac told me to download the PTI podcast, which I didn’t know existed, and I proceeded to get four days worth of that, two of The Scott Van Pelt Show and Bill Simmons podcasts each. I listened to three hours of sports analysis and legitimately felt better. I didn’t know sports could be an addictive substance.

Tuesday we all went to see a movie called “No Habra Paz Para Los Malvados” (there will not be peace for the bad guys). It was a pretty sweet movie, a rogue cop tracking down drug dealers/terrorists. I understood the story, not quite all the dialogue, but enough to know what was happening which was really cool. So the news is that Kegger is coming to visit me tomorrow (wed) and I haven’t heard from her since last week sooooo don’t really know what’s happening. Don’t have internet so I won’t know until tomorrow morning. Good luck Keggz!

10/7

Kegger did actually show up, she was traveling with her two friends from Australia/New Zealand. It was pretty fun, I had class both days so I couldn’t hang out with them much during the day, feel kinda bad about that, but I think they had fun both nights. It was cool to see her all the way over here in Europe. I booked the flights for my week off, $231 for 3 flights, not too bad I guess, still need to get hostels but whatever its going to be awesome. Madrid-Barcelona-Amsterdam for a week. I’ll take it. So basically I am just waiting for it to be Wednesday, yeah sure Segovia could be cool on Saturday whatever, but next week I only have 2 days of classes and then a week of travel and baller status. The trips we go on as a group are so fun I am vurry excited.

It’s crazy how I am used to life here now, like I have been here over a month (what? How?). It is going pretty fast and that scares me. I am not really anywhere close to fluent, it probably isn’t going to happen, I still freeze up talking sometimes (when I’m sober) and I don’t like that. My problem is I think too much about past tenses and that is bad. But overall I am pretty sure that I am improving with Spanish, which is an awesome feeling. I have a feeling that October is going to go so fast, which I do not want, but oh well. I need to remind myself to look around more, slow things down, really appreciate stuff. Like, every day we walk past a gigantic, intricately detailed, amazing church and I don’t even look at it anymore. That’s just silly. I remember this feeling during West Coast, that I am having such a good time that I take almost everything for granted just because it is all so awesome. I need to remember that I may not ever get a chance to have an experience like this ever again. I need to take more pictures too. My camera is so bad though haha it is pathetic. I got it in 2007 and literally haven’t used it since like August 07 sooo yeah. Haha so I have been playing Tyler the Creator and OFWGKTA for people and everyone is like What. The Fuck. Is wrong with you. 

Week of 25th-1st

9/25-10/1

Pretty standard week of school and such this week. Watched football at that bar again, we went just in time to see the Pats lose to the fucking Bills. Fuck that I was so mad. Oh I think I forgot to mention this the whole time, but every day here it has been perfect. It is currently October 2^nd, I have been here for a month (holy shit) and it has not rained once in Salamanca. It has been somewhere between 70-90 and sunny legitimately every day. It is so great here. So yeah we have been having class every day, and now we have homework. I hate homework normally, but when it is in another language its so much worse. When it comes time to like write papers and study for tests I am going to be fuuuuhhuhuhuhuuuuuucked. I can’t even write papers in English. Seriously I am so fucked for that its not even funny. Ummm trying to think of what stands out from this week. Oh, I am glad I dropped that Cinema class because they have so much to do for that class, and I switched into Tkac’s class which will be helpful as far as grammar goes so that is good. A couple of us went out Wednesday night, nothing crazy just went to a couple small local bars and talked with some Spanish people. Some dude Carlos said I spoke Spanish really well, which sounds lame, but I was pumped, I still am, he was like surprised that I could speak Spanish. So in Spanish like in Spain they lisp C’s and Z’s and I started doing it and now I do it like 75% of the time and it really helps people trying to understand me. Una thervetha por favor. Yeah that’s right bitch. You heard my beer order. Fucked that sentence up. Lo siento I’m not lo siento. Friday was fun, went to Salas Bajas, the university outdoor like sport area, theres a big running track around the whole thing, theres a rugby field, dirt soccer field, basketball courts, tennis courts, ping pong tables etc. AJ played bball with some Spanish dudes and me and Kelsey W ran around and shit. People here have fucking awesome NBA jerseys. I have seen a D-Rose, Kobe (8 and 24), Cleveland Lebron, green Dirk, two Vince Carter, Jose Calderon, and a Michael Jordan All-Star game jersey. Shoulda brought my KG jersey. Damn. Then that night we went out and promptly got super drunk. There are a couple places that only serve shots, have I mentioned that already? Whatever its cool, gets people purty druhnk. Can’t really remember anything note-worthy, it was definitely fun though. And then Saturday we were trying to piece the night together and everyone is missing the same like 45 mins to an hour period. Woops. Saturday night was awesome, we found a bar that looks like a submarine inside. And there were these two dudes rapping in Spanish on a stage there, it was fuckin awesome. I had no idea what they were saying but they were flowing super hard. Went to another place called Peter’s and its like Peter Pan themed, which I know sounds gay but its actually pretty sick. And of course we all got up on the stage and danced. We always end up somewhere high up making fools of ourselves. Whatever, when in Spain. Oh and we were telling every bartender everywhere that it was Kelsey A’s birthday because it sort of is, its on Tuesday, and we got a flaming shot of something awful and one bar and a shot of Jager at another, for free. We should do that more often, tell them it’s someone’s birthday every day. Oh ok, so fucking this weekend, on the 8^th, is Sensation White in Barcelona, which is a crazy fuckin huge techno dance party, and every single person I know who is studying abroad in Europe is going to this. But guess what? We have a scheduled trip JUST FOR THAT DAY in Segovia. For like 5 hours. Cool. And Jesus wont let us reschedule it. Fuck. Whatever I just need to get through this week quick, because the next week, we have class Monday and Tuesday, then Wednesday is a yearly Salamanca fiesta so we don’t have class and thennn Thurs-Sun we are going to Andalucía, south of Spain, which is going to be awesome. And Gee, Meaghan Mooney, Leah, and Caitlin are all studying there so I hopefull will see some of them. Alright, time for more homework. Ew.

Peace, Love, and Can’t believe I have been here for a month,

Tim