It hasn't been a good week people. Not really at all. I'm not going to spend too much longer dwelling on it because I know a few of you have already received the crying phonecalls, whining skype calls and so on, so forth. So - here it is in summation! My roomate thinks I use excessive utilities because I take 10-15m showers, blowdry for 5 minutes, straigthen for 10 and charge my laptop once a day. Solution? Spend more money and join the gym. I now go to the gym daily (which is actually a very good thing!) and it motivates me to get out of bed because I need to punch in between 7-9am (they do it based on hours here so that you get different prices) and I shower as long as I want until I am clean. Good. Got a ticket on the metro after I actually paid (I know everyone says that - but I ALWAYS pay), but I threw away the 10 pass because it was all used up. Yep. Spanish class - I'm officially the "stupid one" in the class. Can't say I love it but it's motivation to study harder. Grammar is never easy and it's hard not to get discouraged but I'm determined to ace the test next week. It also rains - every day. If you're having a worse week - email me, tell me about it, if I can laugh about your misfortune I'll let you laugh about mine. Enough gloom and doom, it's not really so terrible.
So moving right along! I have been spending a lot of time (in my new found routine) at the Archive and the library near to my house. Biblioteca Sofia Barat is just 3 blocks from my house and it's not too busy - the hours are rediculous, like most public institutions in Spain but they are located in one of the original interior courtyards of the L'Eixample area - have I talked about that? Lets start there. L'Eixample is the large area of the city designed on a perfect grid like a bunch of donuts ( I live here). As the city expanded they started to fill all those courtyards in the middle with more housing to accomodate the population - the city is now in a process of buying back these centers for public use. So yes. This is what my new library looks like.
In addition to the Sofia Barat library I have been coming to my "school" (the CCCB) and working in the archive as well. It's a tiny little space but it's nice, well lit for reading, comfy chairs (something the library isn't great for) and it even has a few books in english which will help with my thesis once I finish the ones I just ordered off of Amazon. I'm becoming much more productive since work is not on my mind all the time and am starting to get really excited about what I'm learning and just hoping that I can do some good work with the people at home in Feb when I return!
Okay, love you all, stay warm!
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