Five Weeks

After I warned my host brother today that he'd better put is books in his backpack before running off, or else he'll forget to bring them to school again, he shot me a sassy look, saying, "It doesn't matter. Tomorrow's Saturday."

Tomorrow is Saturday. Yet another week has gone by. Making it a total of five weeks that have passed already. Wow.

I think I can say that I've settled down here pretty well. I've something of a schedule going. Which is a good thing and a bad thing. It means that I actually do stuff. But it also feels like my time is rapidly filling up.

A month has passed by so quickly. If I were still in high school I would have already gone to the Home Coming dance, already have been to several senior night sports games. If I was at camp, I would have already come home with yet another inspirational experience under my belt.

It's been a month rich with new experiences. And while I know that I'm not even halfway through my time here in Spain, I still feel like my time here is slipping through my hands like water. I want to explore the city more, I want more time to grow some roots here, and instead of feeling like this is a place I am visiting, I want to feel like this is a place where I am living.

And I feel like I should be traveling more because I'm in Europe and everything is closer. But then I remember that I actually AM going to travel places--trips to Ireland, Portugal, France and Italy are in various stages of planning. In fact, I leave for Ireland with three of my friends here a week from Saturday. So that's kind of exciting.

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Now before you ask me where the video was on Thursday, I'm planning to upload one on Saturday or Sunday, ok? It's been a very busy week and it took me a while to think of what I wanted to do.