Classes (condensed version)

Had econ this morning.. it was alright. I don't really like the professor that much. He is kind of an asshole at times and at times I get the feeling that he thinks we're less intelligent just because we can't articulate our thoughts very well because of the language barrier. And the one kid who is fluent in the class always asks questions and interjects although his questions and comments are not very educated. After class I had a 3 hours or so to spare before my next class so I got some lunch with some int'l friends and finished up my homework for the next class. Got back home and started planning for the trips we'd go on for the next few months. Got it all figured out and sent out TONS of facebook messages to try to coordinate things and get people to travel with.. I'm very excited to just get things booked. But I want to wait to get at least 1 person to travel with for all of the trips. I'm not going alone unless I know people where I'm going. I didn't have all that much to do that night but was up late planning and doing other things on the computer.. other than blogging.. sorry for letting these pile up to one day. Sometimes it's so easy to procrastinate..
Nothing exciting or novel happened the next few days. Classes went as normal and went to the gym afterward.. it's funny and weird being one of the strongest people at the gym every time I'm there.. I guess Spaniards just don't work out as much as people in the US. There are none of those crazy jacked guys at this gym.. This Wednesday I had my first class with Ana and she simply introduced the class and what we would be doing and then we had a presentation given by a guy representing the Morocco Exchange Program. I think I'm going to go.. it seems like a very cool and unique experience and I'm very excited to go. I think I'm going to be going on the weekend of October 16th. So one other funny thing happened the following morning.. normally my classes begin at 10am but on wednesday my classes used to begin at 11am until Ana's class started at 8:30am on Wednesdays.. so Thursday morning for some reason I thought class began at 11am and that I had a late start that day. So I got up at 9 or so after a great night's sleep and I felt great. Caught up on my sleep and strolled to school very relaxed. I even got there "early" and waited outside of class reading our homework over until about 10 minutes before it "started." So I opened the door and the class was filled with people and the professor was talking.. i was completely confused. Looked at my watch several times and found a spot up in the front right next to the professor... unfortunately. After checking my phone to see if I had the right time.. it hit me that class began at 10am this morning and that I just walked into the 1 hour class.. 50 or more minutes late.. I felt terrible. Very disrespectful. Had I realized it before I would have just stayed outside of class. But fortunately we were discussing a story that I had already read in high school and so I had already gone over it once before although it is all very hazy to me now. Then I had econ again and we went over our homework assignment about GDP which was extremely frustrating and difficult as I mentioned before in another post. Took a long time to do it, but I did a good job with it and it turns out that we're going to be working with what we did in the future and expanding on that and adding a lot to it so fortunately I now have a good foundation to work with. I had to give a presentation to the class about my graph and about the basic economic history of Spain using what I had prepared because he had asked for a couple volunteers. It went really well and he really liked what I had done .."Casi perfecto" just a few minor changes that I needed to make after class.. and I even touched it up some more afterward and it looks great now. I just felt a little bad because I'm a bit of a perfectionist at times and I'm pretty good with excel so it looked really good and hopefully I didn't set the bar too high for everyone else or make them look bad with respect to me... I say this all with the utmost humility.. haha I got back home after class and going to the gym quickly and had a great lunch compliments of Eugenia.. it was the dinner she had prepared for me last night. I had mistakenly eaten the wrong dish from the refrigerator, but it wasn't a big deal. All the food is great! Then I spent hours on the computer doing stuff. Time seems to pass so fast on the computer. I don't know why. Then I tried to take a nap for a bit but wasn't really that tired. It was just that I was going out that night to the Joyeria.. 5 dollar open bar till 12:30am and then to Joy, the discoteca, after. Couldn't sleep really and so I just talked with Eugenia and then Skyped before getting ready and going out to meet up with Perrine and her boyfriend. I got to Sol to meet up 45 minutes late but it turned out that they were 50 or so minutes late and it worked out great. I had actually tried to find la joyeria on my own for a little bit walking.. because I had been there once before but I wasn't paying much attention at the time so I was having a little trouble finding it. But the weather was great.. perfect.. and I was very relaxed and not it any hurry and so all was good. I felt very Spanish.. no rush at all. Then I walked back to sol and ran into Perrine and her boy friend.. Daniel.. I think that's his name though I could be mistaken. We eventually found la Joyeria together although we were a bit late and only had 30 mins or so to drink although that was plenty. Ran into a bunch of friends there. It's great that any thursday I can go there.. alone if I want and I'll run into 20 or 30 people that I know. Had a great time there although it was STEAMING hot inside there. 30 mins was more than enough. I then headed over to Joy with Derise, a friend from my Spanish class and a few of her friends and waited for almost an hour in line to get into Joy. It was crazy but definitely worth it. Just missed the free cut off though by 5 or so minutes but what can you do.. Got 2 free drinks with the 12 euro entrance free which was more than enough for me. Maybe a bit too much. It was the most drunk I've been so far in Spain. I think it's that I normally drink more but it's Sangria and it's in a long period of time. But we danced for hours in there but I left at 3:30 or so because I felt like I was a bit too drunk and didn't want anything to happen or my dancing partner to try to make a move or anything although she already knew that I had a girlfriend and all. I had had a great time already anyways and it was a good time to leave. Walked home.. only took about 15 minutes but that was when I realized that I was actually pretty drunk. You don't really realize it when you're in a club with loud music. But I was fine. Made it back alright and on MAIN ROADS mom. Don't worry about me. Time to sleep in, relax, and get ready for Seville!