Monday, January 26, 2009
I woke up around 5:15 am. Unfortunately, I didn’t really get back to sleep before I got up around 8am. I got ready and Teresa helped me find breakfast, muesli cereal with yogurt.
Then I walked to the Ministerio de Agricultura to meet with the group again. Isabel taught us how to get to school on the train from there, so we went from Atocha station on the Renfe to the university. Thankfully, I also had learned how to use the Renfe while I was in Spain last summer. From the Las Margaritas station it’s about a 10 minute walk to the campus of Universidad Carlos Tercero or UC3.
Isabel gave us a tour of the campus, not too difficult to maneuver, and I cherished every moment we were inside – it was freezing! We went up to our classroom for the week and a lady from Piccell Wireless came and talked to us. This was great since my cell phone was still locked and I hadn’t been able to get in contact with my family yet. I signed up for the rebate program along with my SIM card, so that I could get a phone made to work in Europe that I could use immediately. Then I sent Mom a text message.
We had a little more tour left after that session, plus we had to set up our university accounts in the computer lab… I wanted nothing more than to go on the internet, but couldn’t. Around 1:30 we took the bus home (this was bad for me the next day since we didn’t walk from UC3 to the train station). I got home, ate lunch, and went to take a nap. I set my alarm for 3:30 since that’s when Natasha was getting home and I wanted to maybe go sightsee with her.
I ignored it when it went off… woke up around 6pm and thought about getting up for like 3 seconds but didn’t… woke up around 10pm and thought, well shit I might as well just sleep through the night. Teresa cam in around 12:30 and asked if I was okay, she and Natasha were worried about me! She gave me a glass of milk and I went to take my contacts out. I also took one of my Relax and Sleep pills, since I was afraid I wouldn’t be able to sleep more. Again I woke up and wasn’t able to go back to sleep around 5:15 am. I did sleep for 15 hours though.
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Mobile phones.. Wow.
ReplyDeleteMan, now that think back on my semester in Europe, I'm glad that none of us had mobile phones. Or internet. Or laptops. Just a communal land line with very expensive phone calls home. Since none of us had computers, all our papers were hand-written, which was good for us. We all discovered that none of us could spell...
In any case, enjoy it. It won't last as long as you think it will, so don't think, "I'll do that eventually," because you probably won't:)