La lluvia en España...

Yesterday my European plug adapter literally broke off in the socket. Naturally, I did all I could to salvage it, but I just ended up getting electrocuted pretty bad and ruining one of the only two outlets in our classroom... Whoops!

Well, Granada got cold on Friday. Really cold. Like 4-degrees-Celsius cold. This morning I left the apartment all bundled up as usual, and it felt like it might be 90 degrees (Fahrenheit...) outside. I don´t know what´s going on, but I really wish I had Cecily Tynan here in Spain to explain these things to me! Also, I think it´s supposed to rain all weekend. Since it rains here about once a month, I am pretty bummed it has to be on the weekend Kevo is here. Hopefully we´ll be able to dodge most of it by going to Sevilla and Córdoba.

This weekend passed with relative ease. Went to the movies. Went out for tea. Wandered around. On Saturdays, it seems to be a Spanish custom for everyone to exit their homes and slowly amble throughout the streets with no real purpose or direction. Seriously, every Saturday it feels like some fiesta just ended and all the residents of Granada are spilling out onto the streets in all directions. It´s pretty wild, and somewhat unnerving. It takes twice as long to get anywhere, and I would never suggest shopping or going to any sort of cafe on a Saturday. On the other hand, Granada becomes a ghost town on Sunday. Absolutely nothing is open and there is not a soul to be seen on any corner of the city. Here we call this type of behavior a "montaña rusa de emociones".

Yesterday, I registered for my last semester of college. You might expect that after three and a half years and over a hundred credits, I wouldn´t have to worry about getting a seat in the classes I want. I was actually looking forward to my first incident-free registration. In fact, this was too much to hope for. After frantically trying to grab the only available seat left in one of my classes, a ten minute phone call with the UD Honors department, and some last minute re-arranging, I finally got things figured out. As it stands right now, I have class from 9-3 on Tuesday/Thursday and 3:30-5:30 on Wednesday. I am signed up for "Political Sociology", "Inequality, Crime, and Justice", "Intro to Law", and this scary-sounding capstone course for my honors degree called "The Individual in Society". As of now, I´m not signed up for any Spanish classes since I´m finishing the major here. I´d like to take one, but I´m just not motivated in my last semester of college to take yet another boring literature class (especially one called "Cervantes: Don Quixote" that all my friends seem so keen on taking). I might drop Law for an intro level language class, like Chinese or French. Sadly, Meteorology conflicts with one of my other classes. :( This is, of course, tentative. I usually try to avoid Tuesday/Thursday classes, so I´m not too thrilled. On the other hand, I have no class on Monday or Friday, which means I could a) get a somewhat legitimate job, b) travel the world every weekend, or c) get really cheap matinee tickets at the movies. Dad, which option would you pick?

Kevo comes tomorrow! :)