Let's enjoy ourselves, not study

Hola!
Why is it so easy to sleep in this country? Or maybe I should rephrase that; why is it so easy to sleep long in the mornings – ‘cause ‘morning’ is relative no? My morning usually doesn’t start until well after noon. Lunch around 16-17 and then dinner 21-ish. Is that weird? Especially now I’ve come into a period of sleeping almost too long (when you open your eyes and look at the time and realise it is 2 o’clock in the afternoon, or 3 even, then it is a bit excessive even for me…). Sol and I try to force ourselves to fall asleep earlier and wake up earlier but it is difficult when our friendly kebab-guy starts screaming on the street 3 o’clock at night…

Anyway. We are in a period of studying for our dear exams. The literature exam is more fun to study for than the European Integration one (which we have outbursts about at least once a day). We take way too long breaks – well, one got to have that coffee – and even though we realise it will be easier if we in fact would study, neither of us seem to care enough to say “hey, break’s over. Let’s get back to work”.

Today we were supposed to find out whether we passed the English for Scientific and technical purposes or if we have to do the exam. We couldn’t find the paper. Guessing it’s that whole Spanish ‘mañana, mañana’ attitude that is playing with us. On the way back we went to have a coffee outside just by the cathedral and two tables away from us sits a Spanish couple who whistles. They whistled a good half hour and Sol and I tried to give them angry looks. We tried to make them stop, but they just didn’t get it! Who goes to a café to whistle! I mean seriously!

By the way, I want to tell you all what our European Integration teacher is teaching us here about the Nordic countries and other interesting things; Iceland is a big exporter of potatoes and vegetables, Finland is poor and has Finnish mark as their currency and oh, people want to build a canal in the Arctic from England to Japan as the English people then will be able to go to Japan quicker and then the Arctic would be worth more! Is it understandable that we are frustrated with this course? I mean come on, Iceland – potatoes, vegetables? Isn’t the name Iceland a clue to the fact that there aren’t many things growing there? Isn’t it pretty easy to find out that Finland is in the EU, has the Euro and in fact is not so poor anymore? I miss real university studies where you can rely on what the teachers are saying since they look into the latest facts…

Oh well. Let’s continue to play in air bands, enjoy the sun, decide what we're going to be when we grow up, discuss how to make Sol scary and look for mistakes in the stuff we have to read for our exam in European integration.
Hasta Luego!
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