Yes i know..that is a long title, but it really sums up my Tuesday :) Today was just..hum...a nice day :) I can't believe how they fly, but i've really just decided i have to soak this ALL up. Classes went very well today. I don't like my grammar class as much anymore,,,it just doesn't help me the way i need it to, but i'm studying it extra hard for this,,and then we presented our huge project in Civ/Culture class that we've been working on for 1 month. I thought that we did great!-and it feels nice to have it done with. Now we will get a new professor (graduate student) on Friday, since maria, the one we've had is done now. There are two students splitting teaching our class..but i really liked Maria !! Hopefully Beatriz is great too. Anyhow, after that i went to the library and studied until 2pm or so. It was good to continue to review these stupid confusing pronouns haha,,however i'm happy to say while studyingthem this afternoon they were coming right along. Today for lunch we kindof just had left-overs, but that was ok with me b/c i just cant eat so much all the time..so Julia gives me a hard time that i cause her to have left-overs..but i'd rather it be that way! Ha i still feel like i eat a ton! anyway, i least when i stood on the scale on Monday, it said i'd lost some weight, so that was a huge surprise since i'm eating more than i ever have it feels like haha..!! It's gotta be the walking, dancing, and running. Anyhow, i took a rest this afternoon on my bed that consisted of covering up with my wonderful blanket Julia's givenme here, my lovey, and my book. That lasted about 10 min and then i was out :) I got about 15 min of shut-eye b/4 my alarm went for dance.
Tonight was fun at Dance..Gosh i just love that i know i say it every time but i really do. im gonna say again, Nerea is SO AWESOME. Tonight my partner was gone :( but i had a blast anyway dancing with Nerea. We worked on the ChaChaCha, and then we started the Salsa! Ok..so ive finally found one reason it's great that my ass is so big...and that is b/c dancing the salsa with it is SO much fun! It's like you WANT your curves to be able to move your body to the music,etc. so i just love what i've got when i dance this hehehe..I guess maybe i need to dance salsa everyday so i can feel this way hehe :) Anyhow, it was great! Thursday i am excited to go back. I just wish i had it every day! We laugh so hard too, and it was funny b/c they were making fun of me that they thought i'd had something to drink last time b/c i was just smiling all the time and then i was like..absolutely not hah! Kristen and KRisten too,,,we all just smile! It's so awesome..the best medicine for anything. I forget about everything and just dance. Plus the music Nerea has is awesome. I'm so excited for Friday night to go to her performance! i"ll tel you more about that later!
Tonight it was so much fun when i got home. I love my host family SO much! Tonight, Maria Josefa is staying with us again b/c she had another checkup for her breast cancer today. I"m so happy b/c everything is good for her. She is the neatest women, and we enjoy talking alot. She was here for 3 nights last week as she was doctoring in pamplona, and she gave me the most beautiful crucifix with Jesus that she got from Jerusalem: her sister is there. It meant SO much to me. Now, every time i pray i holdit in my hands and i have it with me all the time. It's like he's with me then all the time. I even hold it all through church :) Anyway, it's so special to me and i will cherish it for the rest of my life in so many moments. Inaki (Julia's 10 year old grandson) was here too, with his Mom Maribel. Maribel was dropping him off to stay since she was going to her tennis team tonight. I love Inaki...This is so funny so i have to tel you what happened.
So normally during the week, Julia goes over to there piso (Maribel's) and helps with laundry, cooking, etc.. (i love this idea...hint hint hey mom maybe you could live just down the street for me to babysit my kids and cook and do laundry hehe) Anyway, so a few weeks ago, i'm sitting in the kitchen in our piso, and i see this pack of cigarettes sitting on the radiator. Im thinking..ok, what the heck,,first of all, Julia doesn't smoke, and 2nd of all, Why are there wet cigarrettes in a box drying in our kitchen on the radiator hahahah!!!!???!!! Anyhow, so i ask Julia, and she tells me that when she's at Maribels house during the day and she's cleaning or tidying, she will often times find these wet boxes of cigarrettes in the garbage. She knows that it's either Inoa (the 14yrold girl) or Inaki b/c they don't want their mom to smoke. Maribel smokes some times, and so she will have them on hand. So when this happened he first time i laughed. But then 1.5 weeks later, when i came home and saw another pack drying on the radiator again, i really had to laugh. But Julia just shakes her head. So ...where im going with this is today,,when i came home from school there was another box drying on the radiator, so tonight, as i walk in the door from dance and i'm standing in the living room listening to Julia, Maribel, and Maria Josefa talk, and Inaki sits at the table working on is homework, Julia says to me, "Lauren, ask Inaki if he's the one who puts the cigarrettes in water!?" And she says this to me IN FRONT OF MARIBEL!!!! I was thinking o god...and Inaki got this funny look/smirk on his face. He smiled and looked down and said well "yes Inoa and I both do it". Julia was mad at him b/c she was trying to explain how expensive cigarrettes are and how instead he should just give them to her and she will give them to her other son Carlos and his wife Eva since they smoke all the time. Oh my goodness!!!..so we have this argument going on..!!! Anyhow, i wish i could have had a tape recorder b/c it really was quite hilarious, however, Maribel had to leave, and the talking hushed down, and the i went to Inaki and in English (b/c no one else understands english sufficiently except for the grandkids snce they're learning it),,i told him good job and that it was good he was wetting the cigarrettes. I kindof felt like a bad-guy, going against Julia and Maribel, but really Maribel i think inside is thankful they do it, b/c she didn't seem to be nearly as mad as Julia. I don't think she does anything/punishes the kids for doing that. It might actually help her. Who knows..but anyway, he just smiled and said yes i know..he said he will catch her in the dark sometimes smoking..and then he'll flip the light and see her standing there...it's a little sad, but i'm glad they're tryng to eliminate it.oh wat a funny saga! I wonder how many more packages will be drying on our kitchen radiator over the course of my time here living with Julia heheheh! Oh how i love this drama, b/c it is just so different from what i'm used to in such a refreshing way.
Another i want to make note of..is that the people here are just so beautiful. I'm not kidding you i don't think i've ever seen as many beautiful people in my life as i have while being here in Europe. I just want to stay so i can somehow 'transform' hehe :) hopefully i take some back with me hehe!!
Tonight, i am all clean and ready for bed. by the end ofmy days i am SO tired, but i love my bed here. I've been sleeping so good now, so that is nice. If anything, i just am reminding myself to live in the moment. It's SO hard sometimes, but it's really what you have to do. I am such a dreamer, and i love to think about the future and what my life has in store for me, but i'm really realizing that you can't seek happiness in anything or in any place but only within the moment that you have right then and there. (Easier said than done) but i will keep up this :)
My new favorite (sinful) indulgence: Crema de cocoa: it's probably the fattiest, thing i could eat, but it's like pb here but choc. It's better..i don't need peanut butter anymore guys! haha. I eat this with a sppoon &or put it on crackers and i'm telling you it's so amazing. God i'm crazy. As long as i'm exercising heheh.
Julia made this amazing dessert for me today too..it was so good it was called Torrijas. It's Inaki's favorite thing too. You take dry bread (from the good long sticks of bread we eat here), and then cut it in some pieces, and soak it in milk and honey. Then she frys it in olive oil and an egg so that it gets a little crunch to it after it's soaked in the honey. Then she puts oodles of cinnamon and sugar on top of it. I'm telling you..So amazing with my cup of hot green tea after lunch today :) I'm a lucky girl. HOw did i get so lucky again to live with her. I can't count how many lucky stars i've been blessed with, and for all the rough, unfortunate things i've dealt with thus far, it's days or even moments like this that make up for it 10 times...and i really see first had what is most important.
I know this was a long one, but i hope you enjoyed it! I"ll cherish these blogs forever..it's my fast way of keeping a diary and i can type everything.
All my love to you,
Love Lauren
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