These are the days of my life...

               Two week language class is almost over! Can you believe it!? Because I don't. I feel like at any moment I could wake up and it'd all be a dream. The coolest part though is it's not! I am here and it is real.

So we were allowed to miss only two days of the language class and we hadn't missed a day up until wednesday. Let me set the scene for you...

It was a beautiful day on wednesday. The sun was out, the birds were chirping and it was around 60 degrees (not trying to rub it in). We had just succesfully located the nearest post office and retrieved a package that was sent to Meredith. This has been our regular routine so far. We go before class to accomplish one thing off of our list and then head to class. Well on this particular day, wednesday, we successfully located the post office and headed towards our metro. We were walking down the stairs into the Metro stop and it clicked. We haven't missed a class AND it's a wednesday! We more then likely weren't going to miss anything to important on a wednesday that we couldn't get caught up on the next day! Yup we ditched. We turned right back around. The feeling was liberating. We turned and looked at eachother, "What do we do now!?" We have the whole day to do whatever we want. What did we do first? We went and bought peanut butter (another item on our list of things to accomplish).

Oh peanut butter how I miss thee. Peanut butter is not very popular here. It makes me sad because I LOVE peanut butter. We found some at a supermarket and it was 4 euros and yes we bought it. That jar could of been 10 euros and we would of still bought it!

After the very successful purchase we headed to Retiro Park. For those of you that are just now tuning in to my blog...Retiro is the equivalent to Central Park in New York. I haven't ever been to central park but I imagine Retiro is much much prettier. Okay I might be biased so I'll let you judge for yourself....

The sky is blue, the sun is bright, and everything is beautiful...what a life.

I wish I had better photography skills. The pictures I take are no where near how beautiful everything actually is.

This was a huge empty glass building. It glistened ever so brightly in the sun. It's called the Glass Palace, go figure. 

This was a random art exhibit in the park. It was in the Crystal Palace. Meredith took this picture.

Another picture of the park....The park is by far my favorite place to be.

Once the sun started to retire we headed towards the Prado Museum.

(I borrowed this picture from google.)

The Prado Museum’s permanent collection is one of the largest in the world. It consists of about 9,000 paintings, 5,000 drawings, 2,000 prints, 1,000 coins and medals, and approximately 2,000 decorative objects.

(Another picture borrowed from google. We weren't allowed to take pictures in the museum, but obviously someone was sneaky enough to take this picture.)

This museum houses some of the most famous artists in the world. Just to name a few off the top of my head there was Greco,Velazquez, Goya, Murillo, Ruben, Bosch, Raphael, Durer, and Titian. 

Today was back to reality. I'm here in spain for school. We had our usual routine today of checking something off the list and finishing the day with class. We found the Sal y Ven office and got the key to our apartment mailbox and away to class we went. Today our professor informed meredith and me that our spanish were very good (her spanish is alot better then mine), however the class we were thinking of enrolling in we might not be able to. The professors may tell us that the class is way to over our heads because we don't speak spanish at the same level as a native speaker. SAY WHAT?! My heart sank. How are we going to get enrolled in 12 hours worth of classes and the classes still be to the standard of what OSU telling us take!? OSU says we have to take such and such classes for our degrees/majors but Complutense is saying those classes might be to advanced and that we will not be allowed to enroll in!!! Ugh, this is frustrating.

We ran home after class put two pizzas in the oven and e-mailed as many people for help as we could. I personally have just consumed a whole pizza and 5 cookies topped with nutella! Stress eating, yup, this is exactly what I'm doing. I know in the back of my mind that everything will work out in the end, but it's the uncertainty that is killing me.

Tomorrow is a new day with new opportunities and the ability to find out more information. Our college is having a meeting about how to get enrolled and things of this nature. Hopefully we will get some answers.

Eating everything in sight,

Kimee Paige

Is everything as urgent as your stress would imply?  ~Carrie Latet

Stress is an ignorant state.  It believes that everything is an emergency.  ~Natalie Goldberg, Wild Mind

These have helped me find some peace...Maybe they will help you too.