Our greatest is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall. -Confucius

It's finals again, this makes me realize a couple of things:

One word: crap! finals again! Where did they came from? And where did the time go?! I only have FOUR months left! Time is going by crazy fast, and it's only going faster.

Two: Classwise, things haven't changed too much... My grades are still really bad. I only have two exams left.. Computers and philosophy (which I'm supposed to be studying right now.. opps). My biology test went horribly despite the fact I put endless hour of studying into it... I get the feeling bio isn't my forte. CMC, went alright, I think I passed. I took the same test as everyone else (my teacher wanted to 'push me' a little harder in the Spanish department) and I was alright with that... but don't blame me for running out of time on the test, writing in Spanish takes a lot of work and they were all 'thinking' questions which doesn't help either. Other than that my exams are same old same old.


Now, what have I been up to this past week?

Last weekend I went to the exchange student that lives in Valladolid house and spent the weekend there. Malte is from Germany and honestly other than the orientations we've barely hung out. But he's pretty cool and his host mom (whose from Argentina)  is probably one of the nicest people I know. We didn't do much, mostly sit around, chilled, and ate a lot of food (apart from the food, it was sometime I really needed).




Tomorrow I have a volleyball game and Friday I leave for Sevilla!!!


I feel like there's something to write about that I'm forgetting... but I not having any luck in remembering it so bye for now!!

-Back to studying philosophy

Carnival and Noelle

Two weekends ago was Carnival, which was a lot of fun. My friends and I dressed up like nerds and the Americans I talked about in the last post went with us.

After going out we all slept over at a friend's house.. there were 13 of us. And then we did the natural thing teenagers everywhere do, pigged out. Pizza, ice cream, cookies, chips, pop, popcorn... it was great :)


The Americans turned out to pretty cool, and they also loved me just for no other reason than that I understood and talked English perfectly.
It was really funny because at first they didn't realize I was from the States too. Then I started to speak flawless English with them. Their faces were priceless.


This weekend Noelle, my friend from Sevilla, came and visited me. It was a lot of fun! :)

Noelle in front of the Castle

On Saturday my family took us a Castle close to Valladolid, in a town called Cuéllar. The Castle did a play to explain how people lived in the castle and stuff. It was aimed more for kids, but nonetheless was really cool and interesting.

Me in the castle

On Sunday we went to look at Roman ruins that are outside of Valladolid. This was really fascinating, the only thing left from the house were the floor, but they were from the 4th century!!

a floor made in the 4th century

After the ruins we went to this park that downscaled all the castles and famous churches in Castilla and Leon (the province I'm living in).

Noelle and I in a mini castle

On Monday I had a chemistry exam (which I failed) then I left school early and me and Noelle went and hung out in Valladolid. We walked a lot. First we went shopping in the center and checked out the park (which has peacockss). Then for lunch we met up with Malte at the mall.

It was a 3.5 km walk, but the weather is amazing! Warm, t-shirt weather! I hope it's here to stay!! On the walk, Noelle were talking in English and these two girls our age came up to us and were like: 'wohoo, you guys talk english! what are you guys doing in Spain?' To which we explained the whole exchange student thing . They were really impressed with our Spanish. They were really nice, after we went our ways me and Noelle just laughed about how only in Spain you could befriend random strangers in the street.

After eating we found out that Malte likes to shop, which worked out perfectly with our plan to shopping in the mall.

After going into almost every store and having numerous 'interesting' conversations we walked back to the center of Valladolid so Malte could buy a pair of Vans (which ended up to be pretty hard to find). And to top it off, there was a two-story carousel in Plaza Mayor that me and Noelle couldn't resist to go on. :)

Tuesday I went back to school and Noelle left.


Next week finals start, wish me luck! I'll be needing it!