I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. - Thomas Jefferson

Last Sunday was my host dad's birthday, any guesses on how we celebrated? If was answer was food, you're catching on to how things work in Spain. :P

Along with a ton of other food, we had a delicious sponge cake with whip cream in the middle and chocolate frosting cover all of the outside... all made from scratch by my dad!


Also last weekend was this 'international motorcycle rally' (that's how that internet describes it...) called Pingüinos (Penguins). Basically it's 25,000 motor-cyclers getting together and partying for a weekend. It's quite a sight. hahaha.

There's a parade, where alll the motorcycles drive through Valladolid, but I didn't get to see it because I had I volleyball game (we won!). I did, however, go to the campsite and see all the motorcycles parked, not quiet as cool, but still. It was something you have to see in order to understand what TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND motorcycles are.
Pingüinos is the largest motorcycles gathering in the world that takes place in the winter. :)


Other than that, life is normal. Today I had volleyball practice and the gym is basically a gigantic freezer! It's literally colder inside the gym than outside. (and it's around 30ºF outside). And it was a really tough practice, but fun at the same time... you have to keep doing something or else you'll freeze. My coach is great, he makes us work hard, and it took me awhile to get used to the way he coaches. But now that I'm used to it, practices are amazing :)



School is school, in my biology class we're learning bio-chem stuff and we have to study it every night in order to have a chance at passing the exam. So guess what I've been doing? Studying, studying, and more studying!! My math class started out really well, and I understood everything more or less perfectly. But now that things are way more complicated, everything I learned jumbled together and I'm once again hopeless lost. (my friend Carlota and another kid in my class, Jorge are trying to help me, I have two weeks until the exam. wish. me. luck. :P)





¡¡FELIZ SUEÑOS!! <sweet dreams>

 (because it's 11:30 and I need to be getting to sleep, Gerda this post was specially for you, I hope you're happy now! hahaha)

ps. Speaking of dreams I've been dreaming Spanish!! (well for a couple of months now, I just kept forgetting to tell everyone!) In the first dream in Spanish that I remember, I was in my freshman year biology class (with Mr. Shifflett) and absolutely nothing spectacular happened, expect for half the people in that class where speaking Spanish and the rest either English, a mixture of the two, or some made-up language.