Day 15 - January 21, 2009

So here is how dinner went Sunday night... Montse (our senora) had a friend over. She has been here before and she is pretty fun. They both talk a million miles an hour together and just get louder and louder and louder every sentences.

So....who knows how this started but they told us that this area of Spain was pretty rich because of all the people who had been successful in the textile business and had settled here with their business. Then it went to how rum was actually from here, not from Cuba. From there, we headed in the Cuban Trade Embargo which then led to US Foreign and Trade policies which led to US government in general...then there was about 5 minutes I stopped listening...THEN out of nowhere they ask us what we thought about September 11.

We were sitting there for over an hour while they talked about this...completely in older lady crazy Spanish. I think I managed to understand roughly....7% of the conversation. So me being the spokesperson for our trio of roommates, they both stared at me when asking about our thoughts on September 11....fantastic. At the moment in time I'm pretty sure I secured my spot in the complete moron category as I frantically tried to figure out how to eloquently express my feelings about Sept 11 to 2 very fired up Spanish women.

It went something like this: uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..... no se?

Awesome Ian....awesome.

So that was great.... in other news.... classes started this week. I think they will be decent for the most part. Kyle and I are going to be switching psych classes because we were told very awkwardly in class that we should be in both cultural and cross cultural psychology. Apparently, they don't tell you these things until you get here. But we will figure it all out. Kyle and I are good at improvising and working the system for the most part.

I am hoping to start looking at and nailing down a couple of trips soon.... Dad, we may want to alert David Schooling that the European union is poised and ready to rain hell on Lawson, Missouri's banking system. Actually, it shouldn't be too bad...on top of all the skimping techniques I had before we left...I have developed about 15 more in the 2 weeks I have been here.

Big birthday tomorrow....Klose has taken on responsibility as party planner....god help me.