1)Questions that used to plague me back home have yet to be raised: "When are you going to shower?", "When was the last time you showered?" and "Are you planning on showering soon?" are questions that have yet to be asked of me. Yes, I'm sticking with my usual showering schedule of every 2-4 days, but here, my timeframe is completely normal and I LOVE IT!
2a)Twins are more common than single babies around these parts.
2b)Asian babies are just as common.
2c)It's very common for young people to live with their parents until their 30s, so thus more fertility drugs and adoptions which means more cute twins and Asians for me to scope out :)
3) My gaydar is all sorts of skewed as all European men dress so well
4) It's true what they say, 90 degrees without humidity here is nowhere near as bad as the heat back in the Mitten
5) I could now serve in a branch of the armed forces, or at least on clock duty. I'm becoming quite the pro at military time.
... more later
Yesterday (Tuesday) I booked a trip with 4 other WMUers to Santander. We have bus tickets that leave Burgos @ 4:15 on Saturday morning (which is fine as all of the noise outside my window has been keeping me up until at least 5 AM every night) and to arrive in Santander around 7. We're spending the day at the beach and meeting up with WMU's summer study abroad program kids who are there right now, before turning into a hostel for the night. Our bus is scheduled do have us safely delivered back in Burgos @ 10:00 PM Sunday night. Our 10 day break is also rapidly approaching, thus I've been doing a lot of work to get flights/trains/buses lined up for our EuroTour. Currently, Paris, Milan, Venice, Rome, Athens and an island in Greece are on the schedule. We're packing those days full of culture and countries. All I can think is Holy Full Passport. I'm also becoming a lot more comfortable conversing with my family over dinner or while watching TV. I spent an hour Tuesday night talking to my mom about great places to visit and things to see without struggling at all to communicate. I need to try and remember these milestones when I'm caught up in moments of frustration.
Today, I gave up my siesta to venture to a river with the previously mentioned Burgosians that befriended us (and every group of WMUers for the past 5 years) and a few other kids from my program. The river had a few waterfalls, caves and rock formations, and a solid platform to do some mellow "cliff jumping" (verrrrry small compared to anything up north).
Feel free to score my dive. I give it a 6.
My one attempt failed miserably. I have bruises on the right side of my body from my armpit to my knee from entering the water without proper form. Painful... yes. Regretted? Not a bit. On the return trip home, we stopped at a small pueblo to look at the sights a the view. Pictures do not do this place justice. The houses in the country are so rustic with the tile roofs, and the mountains here are covered in greenery and trees. At sunset, some clouds were rising up over the mountain, creating an amazing scene. Add that to the list of blessed moments I've had while overseas.
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