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I know it's been awhile (again), but I haven't really known what to write here.  So I guess I'll talk about how I haven't had to do anything the past few days.

Basically, my weekend started on Wednesday at 2 o'clock.  (What?!?)  But seriously, my last class this week was at 1 the day before yesterday.  This is due to the fact that one of my classes doesn't start till March, and the other one was cancelled that day.  This will most certainly not happen every week (what a shame?) because I will eventually have class when I'm supposed to, not to mention I will be tutoring on Thursday in the morning.  I'll get to that later, maybe in a later post.

Anyway, my roommate, Chris, mentioned Wednesday night as we were walking back from dinner out, that Sevilla is a great city because there's so much stuff to do.  And he's right!  There is a whole lot to do.  However, sometimes you just don't wanna do anything.  The past couple days, after I had worn out every idea of things to do, I just went and laid out in the sun on one of the few lawns they have here.  Not exactly the same as Polk Place at UNC, but it served its purpose.  In short, these past few days have been very relaxing and easy-going.

That being said, I miss class.  I miss the hard grind of typical classes at home, when I would have so much to do and not nearly enough time to do it.  But most of all, I miss just having something to do.  That's not to say that I don't, but when I'm here to study, I want to be able to have fun...and study.  Now, I would be the kind of person to complain that the academic system here is lax, but I'm not.  I do enjoy it.  However, when I know that I will enjoy myself in the classes that I'm taking and will enjoy learning about the things that they teach, I want to go.  I really do.  For example, the best class here so far is this linguistics class that I'm taking, dealing with the history of linguistic thought.  The professor, Juan Pablo Mora, is FANTASTIC -- so energetic, speaks at lightning speed (although surprisingly, I can understand pretty much every word he says), and very, very smart.  The subject material is great and sometimes (or most of the time, maybe) in English -- we read a really interesting article by a linguist whose name was only listed as "R Harris" and if I could include it, I would, but I don't know how to do that on Blogger.  AND it's participatory, which isn't common here.  Essentially, it's one of the best classes I've ever had, and I can say that with reasonable certainty after being in it for just 2 days.

My other classes are interesting as well, but the one that I've been to the most (other than linguistics) is early and kind of dry.  And the other two haven't really started yet.

But again, I'm not complaining.  And it's not as though I'm running out of stuff to do.  I just get restless when I don't have obligations to fulfill.  Is that weird?  Well, for now, I will have to deal with it.  Hah!  Because I have two more days of "weekend" left.  Time to party.