Walks thru the city

Oh am I tired today. In this area of Spain there is a pilgramge road that is thousands of years old. It goes thru my university so I went for a long long long walk on it up the mountain near here. There was an old town with a church and an amazing view of the city. I didn´t bring my camera with but it was cool. Thousand of people walk this road every year and you can stay in these little hotels for cheap or free. I think I will walk it but probably not until the Spring.

I had to buy a book today for class and it was super cheap only 11 € but everday on CNN they talk about the record lows our US dollar keeps reaching. I only have to buy two books so I think you can assume how difficult my classes are. I wish I could take a real class, because i am only taking Spanish learning. It would help my Spanish a lot more. We are learning about the Spanish culture now and it is getting interesting.

This weekend was fun. We went out as usual, but it wasn´t as amazing. We went to the old part of town which is really cool and saw some hippie dancing around the street. apparently they are usually American so I had to laugh. One american friend of mine rooms with a SPaniard but he is from the south and they are very different from the norther people.

I always meet people and talk with them for a long time. I spoke to a french girl for 2 hours about everything and it was really cool. She was very conservative and was complaing about the 35 hour work week. It is weird how we all live the same "life" but view it so differently. I did happen to get lost very late in the evening and was a half hour in the wrong direction. I guess it is a funny story but i kind of had a cold from it.

I am healthy now and I haven´t had the initial sickness that most have here. I want to plan a trip to see some more of Spain but I haven´t been to active about it. One of my roomates is from Bilboa where the cool art museum is so maybe i will plan that.

I now am getting the whole culture shock thing. The initial excitement really does fade because nothing is the same. I have decided I wont watch any more english TV (even though all we have is CNN international in English). THey have weird TV Though and they get all of our old shows. EVeryone knows Minnesota from the 90210 show.

I have i think 10 minutes of homework today and I don´t know what else I will be doing with my free time. I want to get a bank account here so I can fight off our terrible exhange rate. I will try to get some photos online soon but I don´t know. I haven´t taken to many of scenery so I better get on that before it rains everday.

I don´t know if you guys hear about Spanish news but there was abombing in Madrid and it was really graphic. The ETA is who did it and they are a Basque terrorits group. ALl over the city people have posters and I guess it is really starting to heat up around here. I am safe though because this is basque area and they wont bomb themselves. I am glad we don´t have these particular separation issues cause we were advised not to ever ask anyone on the streets about it.

I am tired of rambiling if you have any questions please ask. There is a lot I am not saying