¡Acelera un poco más!

It´s been almost 2 months since I´ve been here in Alcalá de Henares, and everything is going well. Classes are in full-swing now, and I guess now everything is normal. Because I am studying history and humanities, there isn´t an urgent need to go to class, so last week I skipped a lot in order to hang out and basically just do whatever I felt like; but this week will be a "good-student" week (well, except for yesterday because I skipped Translation in order to go to the Thyssen-Bornemiszma Museum- it was worth it). Other than the random trips to Madrid, I´ve not been up to anything really interesting. I´m watching a good bit of fútbol (soccer), and it´s great. Just a good atmosphere, I think.

A couple of weeks ago, I went with 4 German guys to Toledo- we rented a car, and spent the day in the city. Toledo in car has got to be one of the most interesting things ever because of the fact that the streets are designed for people and thus are very VERY narrow. We drove a Seat Leon down streets that were literally as wide as the car, and the streets were packed with people. It was like a sick game of bowling where the car is the ball and the people were the pins- thank goodness we lost that game of bowling.
Me and my friends have booked a trip to Marrakech, Morocco for the end of November (at least I think it´s then.. really not too sure). Also, we are probably going to buy a flight to Lisbon, Portugal soon because they were just as cheap as Marrakech. I really want to travel around Spain, so a trip to Barcelona is probably going to happen soon, but it will be full price which is fine with me.
I almost forgot, last week there was a Medieval Festival here in Alcalá for a few days: food, drinks, hand- things, and different boothes showing how things were made in the Middle Ages- it was quite interesting.
The university here in Spain is a lot different from what I´m used to in the States. I don´t have to go to class because all that happens in the classes are lectures, and we only have one final exam in almost all of my classes with a few exceptions (the exceptions are just one project besides the final exam). So I try to read and keep up, but that hasn´t really worked out as well as I would like. It´s getting easier to follow my professors in class, but still my brain is mush at the end of the day. The hardest part of my days are when I have two hours in one class. I´m not used to that at all. At MSU, I find it almost unbearable to sit and listen for an hour and fifteen minutes- and here, in the 2 hour classes, most of the teachers REALLY lecture for 2 hours solid. Usually we get a break in between the hours, but if a professor is on a roll, we go straight. It was not fun in a straight 2 hour class of Historia de Europa en la Edad Media (History of Europe in the Middle Ages).

"People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson