mid-day recap

Just had a review in our literature class for our test tomorrow, and I have happily discovered that I can still bullshit in Spanish, and that I have absorbed something over the past two weeks. This makes me happy. Or at least satisfied.

We shall see if I feel the same way after reviewing for history, which I am infamously terrible at remembering. Luckily the history test is not in the format of an essay, just 5 short answers. So I think I can manage.
[edit]: i have no concept of how history works. This was proven when I asked a clarifying question and the professor said something about how this was the most basic idea and she was a little afraid that I didn't know the answer.

We leave Granada on Saturday and meet our host families, finally. And then we have a week long orientation to the university in Madrid. Which means that by the time we start real classes it will have been about 2 months since I thought academically. Ech.

Oh--last night a new group of seemingly high school kids moved into the next hall over in our hotel. And they are louder and more obnoxious than us. Because all of them are as noisy as the our noisiest people. Last night a german woman in a nightgown came to the door of the room where we were celebrating Nick's 21st birthday and told us to be quiet, and that some people were slamming doors. (the other kids) and we said that we'd tell them to shut up, and we were sorry. and yadda yadda pacify pacify. And then we hear loud banging on doors, and I go out to investigate because my RA mode suddenly kicks in and it's 2 german men in boxer shorts and tshirts banging VERY VERY loudly on one door and yelling in German, and bursting into this girl's room yelling even louder in German. It was very weird. And we all were slightly freaked out. And it made me realize that a) I didn't have to deal with any of that shit on my hall, THANKS GUYS. and b) it took a lot of self-restraint to not laugh at the german men in boxer shorts yelling angrily. german makes me laugh. a lot. normally.

j