It´s Friday?!?!

Word of the Day: enchufe=wall socket (a plug in the wall); can also mean something along the lines of brown-noser
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Um, yeah.

So I am quite mixed up with the days. I keep on thinking that today is Thursday for some reason and I also keep on wanting to write in Spanish...heh. I´m already picking up the language.

I must say that I seem to be adjusting to this Euro keyboard and am very proud of myself for not making as may errors as yesterday (well, at least so far...!)

It´s so weird to think that back in OR everyone is probably sleeping and I have been up since 8:30 my time (approx 11:30 PST). Crazy I tell you.

Today has been neat so far. Very low key that´s for sure. Since it´s a national holiday not very many shops are open (but the internet cafe is-woohoo!) and we didn´t have anything planned as a group but we had to do this walking tour of the city on our own in small groups. So a few of us went on our excursion through the city to become more familiar with our surroundings. It was kinda neat. I am starting to recognize and piece together different parts of the city. Everything is very close to where I live which is AWESOME and the city really isn´t that big. You walk everywhere. I think I´ll come home about 10 pounds lighter, that´s for sure! Heh.

It rained on us as we were doing our tour so we ducked into one of Granada´s many cafe bars and I had my first Spanish cafe experience. I had chocolate a la taza (hot chocolate basically) but this was not your Swiss Miss hot cocoa. No way. This was like pure melted chocolate. It was so rich and creamy and warm (which was nice after getting wet and cold from the rain!) Wow. Delicious. I must say that I was quite impressed with it and well, maybe I won´t come back 10 pounds lighter if I keep on going to cafes and ordering that! :)

In other news, I had another very refreshing shower this morning. I am constantly amazed at how cold it is here. Really, there is no central heating at all and the little space heater that Feliciana has in my room does well, not a whole lot to warm things up. Plus, we can´t keep them on at night because there are a lot of power surges and it is a fire hazard. Not cool. Anyway, I am getting used to the cold (I think!) and I am trying to keep a positive attitude by thinking that I remember reading somewhere that cold water is good for making pores smaller or something. Yeah, this is all for beauty folks. I will have non-existant pores when I return that´s for sure! It´s just really cold. Like today when we went on our excursion I wore jeans, a long sleeved shirt, my fleece, my heavy grey jacket, a scarf, super warm socks and gloves and I was still cold. Even sitting here now I am slightly chilly. I just hope that I don´t catch pnumonia. That would not be cool. Think happy thoughts and don´t think about the cold. Easier said than done! Heh.

What else? Um, not a whole lot. I found a neat little internet cafe near the house that has a great schedule and am sooo happy that I will be able to stay in touch with the world for a fairly reasonable price. Way cool.

I think that we are going to go out tonight to check out some of the bars. I am going to take things cautiously because well, it´s the beginning and I don´t quite feel comfortable with everything. But it should be a good time whether or not I drink. My roommate and I are to meet up with a group this evening and it should be a good time.