"Enjoy The Little Things"

So the first few days back in school just flat out sucked. Getting up early, sitting for long periods of time, listening to lectures on things that-to be honest-I have absolutely no interest in. For example, I just cannot bring myself to be interested in psychology since I had a hard enough time paying attention when it was in English! Ugh.

Speaking of school, I had to give my presentation in philosophy the other day. I can honestly say that was the most nervous I have ever been in my life. My whole body was shaking. It is best if we did not speak of it although I was able to successfully defend my ideas through the whole class debate so it was not a total disaster.

So apparently it has been decided by my host parents that I have to pass all my classes this trimester. Now that may appear fairly easy, but you have to realize that there is a difference in the difficulty between American and Spanish schools. Thus, passing all your classes in Spain is about like getting better than a B in all your classes in America. With the whole foreign language complication thrown in there, it just flat out sucks.

As you may remember I was feeling a little down because my English was getting worse and my Spanish was not improving much either. The upside is that I now able to understand basic Italian and French as a result of the fact that they are very similar to Spanish. I find this awesome.

(Warning: Contains awkward metaphors)
Another grand achievement is the realization about my feelings about Spanish. Before coming here, Spanish was like the hot girl in class. It was a lot of new, exciting, and just all around awesome. However, a couple weeks after arriving my feelings about it had shifted so that it was like the clingy ex. I wanted nothing more than to escape it back into the (relative) sanity and familiarity of English. But now it is like a best friend. Sure it pisses me off at times, but we know each other so it is all good. If these metaphors made no sense, I apologize.

I had a lot more to write, but I lack motivation to actually do it. So that is all. Good Night World.