Homebound

Wow 4 months and I am heading home. I can’t believe it. It has just flown by. I will start with what I did this week.

Monday I took my patho/pharm test. I woke up when I had to be at the metro so I rapidly got dressed and ran to the metro. My professor ended up being on the same metro as me. I took it and yeah. I did not do as well as I hoped and it definitely was not what I could have done. But I am glad it is over, I can go home and relax and cuddle with my dog and family and not study for the test. Monday after my test there was a workshop on how to adjust back to the states and how to use study abroad to better your chances of getting a job. Then we went to see the Sant Jordi festival. Sant Jordi is basically the Valentine’s Day of Barcelona/ Cataluña. Sant Jordi is based off an old folklore. This princess was swallowed by a dragon and a prince killed the dragon and cut the princess out and flowers grew from the blood. So on this day men give women roses and women give men books. So there were books and flowers everywhere! There are authors who come in from everywhere to sign books. One of the authors was Carlos Ruiz Zafón who wrote Shadow of the Wind which I had to read for my literature class and I wanted to get my book signed but I got there too late. However the best thing probably happened to me! Christopher Paolini who wrote the Inheritance series was signing books! Me and my roommate found English copies of the 4^th book and we got them signed! Best moment ever, the line was so long and people were pushing, best moment of my life. It was a good Monday. My roommate and I also got roses for our senora. Also there was a Barcelona vs. Chelsea game so some people in my group and I went to go watch it at a bar. It was so intense they could have won! But it was fun to just hang out and see a game.

Tuesday it was a reading day for us to just read our notes. So I shopped for last minute presents. Then I worked on my final for lit which was essays so it wasn’t too bad. They were due Wednesday. My art paper was due Wednesday. Thursday I had my art final and it went better than the midterm. So a lot of us were done Thursday afternoon so we had a movie afternoon at the school. We watched Bridesmaids. It was super fun.  For the evening we went to a bar to just relax and hang out- they had popcorn so I snacked on that.

Friday- last full day in Barcelona. So I slept basically all through the morning. I did more lastlast minute shopping. Then I went to lunch with some people in the group at Bo de B because I was craving more rice in a sandwich. I did more shopping and went home to repack my bags. I have a bad feeling I am going to hit with an over bag fee.  My group and I went to see the Montjuic fountain show. It was so cool, I heard it is better to see at night since you can see the colors. We had a good bye dinner and it was sad but the food was so good. I went to church because I had too. I had to say the lastlast good bye to my new friends there. I am just chilling at my homestay until 4 in the morning and taking a taxi to the airport.

Barcelona has been great and wonderful. To quote Bridesmaids people do grow and do change. When I come back I will have changed and the people at home have changed too. But I am ready to bring the new me home and bring the new me home and put that in affect for what is best for me and my family. I have been on facebook way too much and I have been looking at the people who I knew in high school and I have probable had an experience that may not have- Some have kids, work at jobs, but I go to school and work and I am making the best choices for myself. I have to thank Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship because I could not have had this amazing experience.

I will post over in the next few days on how I have adjusted. The nursing aspect of this experience continues through May with clinicals and labs. It’s going to be an exciting month. I hope you have enjoyed reading my blog!

The Homestretch

Looking at my journal this week was not really interesting and I have to study for my Patho/Pharm test that is tomorrow so this will be another quick post.

           Tuesday for literature class my roommate and I had to cook a meal(Arroz a Banda) from the book that we were reading, Los mares del Sur. Our senora wasn’t opposed to us using the kitchen but she did a lot of the cooking, mainly since we did not know how to cook fish or shrimp and we didn’t want to get people sick. The presentations were good, our Professor invited the senoras to class, and my senora had to be the cutest out of the group- she reminds me of Dora the Explorer. Wednesday I had clinicals and they were a little less exciting since I haven’t really been sleeping and I was just so tired. I ended up taking a nap that afternoon, because I was so exhausted.

           Thursday I had my presentation for my art project. The paper is basically finished I just have to reread through it. Also I had my literature test on Los mares del Sur. Let’s just say it went better than last test but I got lost on the vocabulary.

           Friday, I had lunch with people from my group at Bo de B. It is a sandwich place by the beach and it was pretty tasty. I would have never thought to put rice in a sandwich but it was so good. You may be thinking I have to get rice, no you don’t but it was an option, and a good one at that! Then to celebrate our last full weekend in Barcelona we went to a bar, and they had free popcorn!

           Saturday I didn’t do much besides study for my patho test. I went to lunch with some people in my group but that was basically it. Sunday was super sad. It was my last time going to church. They had a pancake lunch for family that is moving and the put me on stage too to say good bye. They have really made this experience so much better. I got to know local people and they helped me so much with my Spanish. I have a lot of good memories with them.

Okay now patho! Last week in Barcelona.

Playing catch up

I am writing this really late at night so hopefully it makes sense not that some or my earlier posts make sense. This will probably be a short post since I did not do much. I stayed up really late all week and tried to get all my homework and studying done but it is Sunday night/ Monday early morning and I still feel so behind! Well I have had all semester to get this art paper done and I still procrastinated until the end.  It was reduced to 8- 10 pages which I am so happy about I would be freaking out if it had to be 12-15 pages. It would not be too terrible if it wasn’t 1.5 spacing, I am just so used to writing double spaced.

Oh but Wednesday I had clinicals and it was probably the best day of my life! I was in the pediatric unit and oh my gosh babies! I had a different nurse and she spoke a little English but we spoke Spanish because she said it is a good language learning time and I was like definitely. We first saw a toddler and she was super cute she had a combined appointment with her older brother and they were taking an eye exam and they had to use their hands to demonstrate the way the E is facing and the little girl went first and her brother went and she was showing him the way the E was facing but he wasn’t looking at her, cutest thing ever! Then the baby parade started: we had a 17 day old baby, 4 months, 8 months and others but man so cute. With each of the babies they took measurements and it was interesting oh important the nurse made it seem that the baby should be near the 50 percentile. If I have not been obvious enough I think I want to do be in the pediatric unit and it is super cool that I am in this room, it will toughen me up to the crying. All the babies were good until they got the shot. But I still have at least 2 more years until I decide what I want to do.

Friday was another Conocer Barcelona. They stopped making them mandatory which means we want to go now. In the morning we went to Camp Nou! I have not been there yet, well only from the outside I may have gotten lost trying to find my church which was in the opposite direction. It was fun we had a guided tour from one of the professors from the school who teaches Sports and Society. We saw the trophies from not only their soccer team but their basketball, hockey, and racecar team.  Then we got to sit in the bleachers for a little bit. Then we got to go near the field and take pictures unfortunately the soccer team was at an away game. It was also my señoras birthday so my roommate and I bought her a Messi Mug because she is in love with him! She liked it and we wrote her a card in Spanish. It was good. Then in the afternoon we had a Conocer Barcelona at the Sagrada Familia. It was still marvelous even though I have been there before. It was a guided tour so I got to learn more things. Also we got to go up the towers probably the coolest thing ever. However you take the elevator up then you have to walk all the way down a winding staircase that is poorly lit! I went super slow down the stairs with my hands griping the walls since some of the way down did not have a railing! About half way down there was a couple and the guy told the women to look down and I was like it is probably a bad idea to look down. It was funny because I was talking to them in Spanish and I had no idea who they were.

On Saturday I was walking around and I was like why are my legs killing me! Well it was all those stairs! I also went to a baptism on Saturday and Sunday church. Not an amazing week but it was a good week.

Springbreak 2012

Oh Springbreak, Some people might imagine beach, tanning, relaxing. Well I got plenty of relaxation. I slept so much, it was nice. I also ate so much ice cream/ gelato.  I did not get to do as much as I would have like too though since it was raining basically Tuesday- Friday. For a country that never rains it had to pick Spring Break to be rainy.

Casa Batllo roof

                Well Monday I had a fabulous day. I have been waiting all semester to go to Casa Batlló and the Pedrera by Gaudí. I woke up and the line for the Pedrera was huge so I went to Casa Batlló first and wow was it amazing! There are no straight lines in the building; it kinda looks like a dragon, especially on the roof. Oh you get to go on the roof, and I am a chicken when it comes to heights but I had to just suck it up and head up. I loved all the colors in the building! There was an audio guide on the tour and I liked what it says, that Gaudí was able to respect the forces of nature, religion, and put it into his building which put him above all architects. Then I got some lunch and went to look at the line for the Pedrera which still had not gone down. So I went to buy some peach rings and waited in line. The first thing you do when you go in is go up to the roof. I did not have time to prepare but I still went up but I did not stay long but the roof is basically the best thing about the Pedrera. The Pedrera is a building the Gaudí built to be used as apartments, so there was a level that displayed what an apartment would have looked like during his time. There was a level dedicated to the architecture plans for his other buildings. It may have been nicer with an audio tour but it was a letdown after Casa Batlló.  

                Tuesday was the first day of the crazy rain so I went to school to print out things I would need and I worked on some homework. I wrote a lot of postcards which I have failed to do all semester. Wednesday it was still raining so I went to find the aquarium, well tourists and parents alike were trying to keep their kids busy so the line to wait to go in was an hour long and I did not feel like waiting. There was a mall next to it so looked in there for a while. I got onto the metro to see the movie times for anything just to get out of the rain. It was still too early for them to open and The Vow wasn’t until 4 and it was 1. I went and got lunch and I was already wet (Lucky I did bring an umbrella from home but my pants and shoes were all wet). I walked around waiting for the movie to start. It was me and a bunch of old ladies in the theater to watch Todos los dias de mi vida. I swear Spanish is more romantic. It was so good!

Monjuic Castle

                Thursday it wasn’t raining yet so I was like I am going to go to Monjuic which is a mountain in Barcelona and it holds all the 1992 Olympics. Well once I got up the mountain it started to rain! I made my way to the Miró Museum. Miró makes no sence! But I had to go for my art class and I wanted to get out of the rain. Then I went and got lunch then went to the CaixaForum which I had to go for my art class to since it had an exhibition on Goya and Delacroix. They were both so good exhibits. I took the bus up to the castle on Monjuic which hold so much history. During the Spanish Civil War prisoners were held and killed there. It is a sad but pretty place. I took the Teleferic down which is basically a glass box with seats and you go down probably the scariest thing but you got some beautiful sites of Barcelona.

Hippos Sleeping at the zoo

                Friday I went to the Marina Museum because they were hosting a Titanic Exhibition! Their main exhibit was closed but the Titanic Exhibit was so good. There was an audio tour and I loved it. That night I went and saw Titanic in 3D. It was okay in 3D, it was actually a lot darker looking in 3D but I was still crying at the end. The snacks at the theater are cheaper here than in the states. I have not had popcorn in a few months it was so good! Saturday I went to the zoo! Their zoo has a nice collection of animals. They were so cute. I went in the late afternoon and they were all taking a siesta.

                Sunday was Easter and I went to church and it was good. I talked a lot more Spanish and it was nice to be around and talking to people after talking to myself all week. Today, Monday my roommate and I spent all day catching up on our homework that we should have done all week. Luckily she finished but I have patho objectives that I am slowly making my way through.

Happy April Fools Day

I hope nobodies gotten to make pranks pulled on them today! I know I did not have any.
        Well the realities of being back in Barcelona hit and it hit hard. Since I did not bring any homework with me to Morocco I had a lovely pile waiting for me. Monday I went to school early to watch all the recorded nursing videos we missed from the previous week because we could not connect. Probably the worst torture I had to put myself through. Then nursing class, then doing more nursing homework to get ready for an exam we are supposed to take Wednesday but got an extension to take it Thursday, I know what kind of extension is 1 day but with Spring Break the following week we took the one day. Tuesday I spent the day still playing catch up with nursing and trying not to fall behind in my literature class. So Wednesday while the U.S. nursing class took the Patho test the Barcelona class was studying. We had to connect for Foundations but we couldn't connect again! Well we only missed 10 minutes.
        So obviously its been a rough start to the week and I wasn't sleeping much, then waking up late and missing breakfast. So me and my sister skyped and it made me feel better, we complained to each other about our lives which helps me to just get it out and not have it feel bottled up. Also clinicals on Wednesday were good, it was the same nurse I was working with last week and she is so nice. I saw more people get there blood drawn. Then in her office, we saw a couple of the same patients as last week but a lot of new ones but the same aliments, pressure ulcers, a long clotting time, and high blood pressure. 
        Thursday was the strike, the public transportation was working on limited service. Only 3 hours for the morning rush hour and 3 hours for the evening rush hour. All of the professors and staff at my school were like be careful, its going to be busy, and it may be better to walk to school. So me and my roommate walked to school in the moring it was only about 40-45 minutes, not bad, and  there weren't a lot of people out. So I had class then I took my test. My test was on the brain and diseases with the brain. Honestly the test could have been a lot harder but it was fair like all the other tests. By that time other students already had stories about the strike! In Spain everyone has the right to strike but it must be peaceful. So a lot of stores were not going to open and if they tried strikers would throw things at them, try to close their gates, they smashed windows, and they also put firecrackers in garbage cans so they blew up. After lit class my roommate and I walked back home and where the strikers had moved was were we needed to go to get home. They had signs and were marching but a lot of people just took the day to walk around and relax. We didn't meet any trouble and we may or may not have taken pictures of the 2 blown up trash cans that were still smoking. So its Spring Break now! I had a 2 way skype with my brother and my sister which was fun.
         My first day of Spring Break, Friday a couple of the students who were still in Barcelona and our staff went to a hostel, InOut Hostel that lies on the outer side of Barcelona to volunteer. InOut is a hostel that is staffed by people with Special Abilities, kinda like Lambs Farm if you live in the upper part of Illinois, except instead of a farm it is a hostel. It is a really nice hostel that is in Barcelona but is out of the craziness of the middle of the city. So we painted picnic tables and I was like oh yes my mom will let me paint! Then I got all full of paint, I am not really sure how I did it but I got paint on my lip, face, shirt, pants, hands, arms, and shoes. I was a mess, my senora asked me what happened to my pants when she was washing them ooops. We got lunch at the hostel and we spent the afternoon thinking of ways to increase the name of the hostel hence the long description. I went to church that evening and we had the lesson and then we played Just Dance 3! It was a fun day.
 Saturday I may have slept in really late but it felt so good after not sleeping much all week. Then I went on search for some lunch, I was trying to find this sandwich place everyone in my group said I had to try but I may have not been able to find it so I just ended up at a bakery and got the menu del dia. Then I went walking through the streets of the Gothic Quarters.
      Sunday, It was the first Sunday of the month which means some museums are free! So I went to the National Museum of Catalan Art, which houses artists from Cataluna. It was nice, I like works of landscapes a lot more then I like portraits. Then I went to the Picasso Museum. The line for the museum was so long so I got some gelato to eat while I was in line. I am such a smart cookie. The Picasso Museum is kind of small. It houses a bunch of his earlier works but not to much from his Black and Rose Periods. But they did have a collection of his ceramic works. I was going to go to the zoo but it was 4pm and it closes at 5pm and I was like I need more then an hour so I just walked around. So I was just riding a bus and I saw the Torre Agbar. So I walked to it, it was a lot farther then I thought it would be, but I made it. It is a lot prettier in the night time then it is during the day. So I went home and I wrote some postcards because I have been so bad at sending them. It has been a nice Spring Break so far.

Clinicals, Camels, Morocco, Africa

It has been a very exciting week! Wow it was fun and exciting!  Tuesday evening 3/20 I had a typical Spanish cooking class! I miss being in the kitchen, it happens at school too this isn't a new feeling. I love cooking and baking and anything food. We made pan and tomato- which is toasted bread with garlic, tomato, salt, and olive oil, simple and delicious! We also made a butternut squash soup- we topped it with a shrimp, pan fried leeks, and cheese. I am not a fan of shrimp but I tried it with the soup and it was not bad its just shrimp is not my cup of tea. Tortilla de patata- which is an egg omelet with potatoes, onions, and we put leeks in it. We also made paella! Man that was so good- it had asparagus, green and red pepper, garlic, onion, peas, tomatoes, and chicken. It was one of the best things I have ever eaten! Also we had creama catalana- which is like a custard that has crystallized sugar on top. The chef only knew my name which I thought was funny because he would call me over to help. I was so full at the end of the class all I wanted to do was take a nap but I had to prepare for a Patho presentation. 
               Its Wednesday and it was such a long day. I woke up and I only had to wait for the bathroom once. My senora bought a new kind of cereal, it was so good! Best way to start the morning. Then I went to clinical and I meet up with the boss lady at the hospital and she showed me where I was going to go. Well she took me to the place where they draw blood. In my head I was like man do I really have to watch them take blood for 4 hours. Side note they usually have put me in there while I was waiting for my nurse to show up. Today I asked why they took so much blood because I swear whenever I am there, there is like 100 people going in and out and I was starting Barcelona was full of vampires! So I asked the nurse why they always seem to be taking blood. She said because usually most people here come for preliminary testing but some patients are anemic and it is to see if they are at a normal level and other aliments. Well then I went to the nurse I was shadowing to her room where she meets with patients and does teaching, diabetes testing, ulcer care, and hypertension. It was cool, I like her independence that she is in charge of these patients. The two other nursing girls that go to the same clinic but on another day asked my if I liked going. I was like I really do. Yeah there are times its annoying that I have to wait for them to eat but I like the slower pace, the personalized attention for patients, its a type of location that I am like to work in when I am older. I think I may like the big hospital setting but it seems just overwhelming at times. Well then I had to go to school but I had to get rapidly to go. Well then I had to get the computer stuff to watch the nursing classes and our IP address keeps changing and the firewall at Wesleyan won't let in strange IP Addresses(usually a good thing but not in this case) it happened on Monday too and we missed lecture for Foundations and Patho. But we had that presentation for Patho and we couldn't connect! It took an hour and a half before we could and we still did our presentation but we went through it pretty quickly and we had to go into Foundations. I hate public speaking and I froze during my part of the presentation! It was so bad everyone says that its okay, they are your peers but its different. I was pretty sure I had my material down I was practicing the night before I just got so nervous! Last week I had to do a presentation in my literature class and I didn't feel nervous so I guess I just got a double whammy for this presentation. After nursing I had to work on a group presentation for my art class which we got done. Then after dinner me and my roommate were talking to our senora just talking, she was telling us stories from other students she has had in the past, it was good. Then me and my roommate had to pack up our room because we are getting a different room. Since it is close to the time where students go on Spring Break there are a bunch of students who will be coming in and out of our homestay so she needs our bigger room so she can stick more beds in it. So we are getting a different room. I have accumulated so much stuff!! I don't know how I am going to get all my stuff home! I have a month to worry about that. Waking up at 3:30a.m. to go to Morocco!
             I am not a morning person waking up at 3:30 was not the easiest thing that I had to do but my roommate and I did and we made it to the metro early and had to wait for the metro in the rain. It wasn't fun- cold+rain+4am=a one unhappy Amanda. Well the airport was fine, there was no problems, Take off was not the smoothest I have every been on and nether was all the turbulence, and neither was the landing lol. I swear I will get used to flying. Well we get to Malaga, Spain to take a bus to Tariff, Spain to catch the ferry to Tanger, Morocco, Africa! Cross 3 continents off that bucket list- Africa, North America, Europe! I am in Morocco because my group and I were doing the Moroccan Exchange Program. It is a 4 day cultural exchange to get deep into the roots of Morocco and build a new perception of culture. So now we are in Morocco, we got onto another bus and we drove to a women's shelter, Darna, in Tanger. It is for women to learn skills like sewing and hand sanitation, learn how to read, write, they have computers so they can learn about computers too. It allows for them to gain a skill so that it is easier to get a job. They also have a restaurant so we ate lunch and talked to 3 Moroccan students and talked about their culture and stereotypes we have and trying to learn from them. We then had a three hour drive to Rabat where we meet our homestay families. While driving we made a pit stop and we rode camels! I couldn't believe it. The camel I got on had a loose saddle so the girl that was on it and jumped down. It was super high I can't believe that I did it, but I am so glad that I did. My host mom was so nice. Her husband and her kids live in the US and she lives in Morocco with her mom and her 2 brothers. She is a teacher at a French school. She spoke perfect English, she was the sweetest last ever. Me and another girl from my group had dinner with her and her mom and it was soup and bread it was so nice. It is super interesting they sleep on couches that are backed on the wall.  I slept so well I was so tired.
          Friday: Breakfast was bread with nutella or jam. Then we had a bus trip to a small town outside of Rabat, Sale. Sale has a big homeless population and it has one of the biggest slums. We drove to the Nonprofit organization that helps people get there high school degree so that they can have a better life. See picture to the right. Well we meet 3 students ans we discussed some of the ideas/ perceptions we have of each others culture and we tried to work through them. Then we saw Roman Ruins and they were pretty cool. There were ancient eels that only come out if the girls are not pregnant- luckily an eel came out so the group of girls I was with we are all good. Then we had lunch at our homestays. It was so good. After lunch we had a walking tour of Rabat with students from the University, they showed us the beach, the Parliament, the market, how to write our names in Arabic, and we just got to know each other. Then we went back and we talked to an ex Peace Corp volunteer and a Fulbright Scholar about their experience in Morocco, what they do, difficulties they have. Then we had maybe the most awkwardest experiences in my life. In Morocco and other places they have public baths called the hammam. Well women don't wear tops and all the women are in one room bathing. I was decked out in my bathing suit but it was so relaxing. It was like a steam room and you just sat and bathed. It was a good experience but I don't think I ever want to do it again.
       Saturday it was an early day. We woke up and we had a 3 hour drive to the Rif Mountains. We had a pit stop in a city where we got supplies for lunch and we picked up our cultural translator. We arrived to the Rif Mountains were we meet this guy and his family who live in the mountains. He is a farmer and he lives the most simple but loving life I have ever seen. He didn't speak English but from the little things he did and his family did were loving. We had lunch with them and we talked about how they live and how the drought was affecting his family. He took us up to the Mountain and we saw the most beautiful landscapes. Beautiful! I had to use the bathroom so bad and the bathroom was a hole in the ground man that was the first and last time I hope I have the opportunity to do that.  We then had another drive to Chefchaouen. We walked to our hotel and then we had free time to shop until dinner. I bought a leather camel to signify my first camel ride, and just my whole experience in Morocco. After dinner we had a group pow-wow just talking about our experience. We had to answer 2 questions

• When did you realize that you were in Africa/Morocco/Muslim country.
• I said when we first got to Rabat and my homestay mom, the girl I was living with and I were walking to our homestay. There were no women out and we got weird looks being on the streets. Also there were a lot of streets we went on that weren't lite and it felt like she was talking us through a labyrinth.
• Also what has this experience taught you.

• This experience has taught me everything. I definitely helped me make see that there is a lot of similarities in the values that I have. Also has taught me to try to find the finer things in life. Also there is an extreme generalization in media that does not show the sides of cultures. It has also helped my to see the finer things in life and the things that I take for granted like a flushable toilet, running water, toilet paper. Also Morocco is beautiful!

       Sunday: I woke up and with some people we had a walk to the outside gate that is up the mountain of Chefchaouen. We had beautiful views of the city and the mountains. We walked back, checked out of the hotel. We had breakfast on the bus and we drove to Ceuta to cross the border to the Spain. Spain owns a little part of Africa and then we had to take the a ferry across the Straight of Gibralter it was super windy so our first ferry got canceled and then we had to take the second one, it was super fancy and they played Pink Panther cartoons. Also Spain does have daylight saving so we ended up losing an hour because the time changed that morning. We had a bus ride to Malaga where we got to our plane to Barcelona.
        It was such a good weekend I learned to much. Best weekend ever. To bad reality came back and this week will be super busy with papers, tests, and a possibly the biggest transportation strike in Barcelona on Thursday. Until next time!

          

A little over a week update

       Another week has gone by and I feel more behind in my work then I should. Monday I had a free day so I studied all day at  school. Tuesday was about the same as Monday just studying after my classes.Wednesday I had clinicals and it was nice seeing a different part of the hospital. I really didn't get to see much, it was just sitting around waiting for patients to come in. The nurses I was shadowing were nice but they didn't really do much. They get the urine and blood samples and but it through the machine to test it. But after that the nurses don't really do much. I saw them but a make shift boot on a women: which I thought was pretty low quality. It was like a metal ladder that birds walk on but bigger wrapped in gauze then wrapped in a medical wrap and bent to fit the lady's leg and then wrapped her leg in more medical wrap. Friday I cleaned out my whole computer! I sent it to the original computer settings and it is working fine. But now my original theory that it was the wifi at my house was causing the problem is confirmed because now I can't even connect to it so that is why this post is late because Monday I had to work on a huge nursing project and I didn't have enough time to get it posted while at school. Well Saturday I went to a church talent show and my barrio and I did a dance to Grease Lightening. It was super fun we had costumes and got our make-up done all 50's style. I am glad I did it because it opened more conversation  of the ladies in Relief Society to talk to me! Sunday I went to church and worked on homework. I bought a waterbottle over the weekend, I was excited. Also we got 6 new roommates! They are from Norway and they seem super nice, they are only here for 4 days. But there is 10 of us sharing 1 bathroom!This isn't an interesting post but this weekend I am going to Morocco! So that should be interesting!