Hola!
Since Monday and that rather interesting exam in ‘European integration’ we have mainly been studying for the next exam, writing silly paragraphs for the Dragon and drinking coffee. On Thursday we then wrote the literature exam which at least was in English although still a bit silly considering our teacher asked us to name books that we hadn’t read but which were written by the authors who wrote the books we were supposed to read. I say supposed because in reality we didn’t read much at all. It was a total of 7 books that we were supposed to read, and given our rather generous amount of free time here it shouldn’t have been a problem, but somehow we just didn’t. Anyway, the exam went ok, we think.
The Dragon still hasn’t told me I passed the scientific and technical English and today was the exam. I didn’t go. I was so annoyed that I decided that it was enough now. She can’t think for real that I will do even more work than everyone else. One thing if I do extra paragraphs because she is unable to admit her mistakes, but an exam or even to go there just to hear what are you doing here. No, I decided it was enough. I will try to get a hold of her on Monday and then play dumb.
Thursday evening Sabine, Sol, Jolita, Naomi and I went to the beach here in Valladolid (a constructed one by the canal…) to have a traditional Spanish Botallón. We had wine, beer and sambuca and sat on some benches enjoying the warm summer night. We had originally planned to go to some bars after, but we were all rather tired and decided that going home was the better alternative. On the way home I saw my first live cockroach here in Spain. It was on the street and truly disgusting.
Friday was an incredibly warm day. It was so warm that it was almost impossible to be in the sun for more than 5 minutes. In the shade about 30 degrees. Sol and I concluded that while some people go to saunas, we just stay in Valladolid… Later, after I had exploded with anger towards the Dragon it started raining and there was thunder and lightning and I found myself in the university with Jolita thinking how to get home in the best way, without getting completely wet.
And yesterday it started for real. The goodbyes. Last week we said goodbye to Vaida, but I will most probably see her rather soon anyway. Yesterday it was time for Sabine and Naomi to say byebye. It was a bit surreal the whole evening as we somehow ended up talking about wars, diseases, rapes, dictatorships and other less nice things. Then at one point Sabine and Naomi decided they wanted to sleep for a few hours before having to leave at a stupid hour today in the morning, so there were hugs and kisses and promises to keep in touch and repetition of memories and after a long goodbye they left and we were left with a funny feeling after the discussions on horrible things and having to say goodbye.
Jolita decided that we were to go out and got us all (Sol, Fiona and me) to get ready. After almost falling asleep in one bar we went to Lola – the one bar/club that we all really love and that we only found recently. They were playing reggae when we arrived and then moved on to house/lounge. There were several guys in striped t-shirts and us, as they were showing animal porn – animals ‘doing it’ - on the tv, we found ourselves wondering if we accidentally came there on gay night. We didn’t care, we just sat in the comfortable sofa beds and talked and drank until we decided it was time to sleep.
According to Fiona men are complicated in a simplistic way, Jolita has promised to take care of any future cockroaches for me, Naomi is happy that she’s going home, Sabine is hoping that she will get to see the Alhambra and Sol isn’t feeling the way she thought she would about going home. Me, I’m just happy that I soon won’t have to deal with neither silly classes nor silly teachers in Valladolid.
‘Til next time, hasta luego!
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