I met a really nice girl named Sonia who lives just down my street, she is also on study abroad and lives in San Fransisco. I was so happy to meet her, because now I have a friend not related to Kalamazoo at all with whom I can hang out. She lives in an apartment down the street, so last night I went over there and we watched a movie (Sahara) and ordered pizza. It was really nice. Its nice to know I can be social without having to take the metro somewhere.

Earlier yesterday we visited the European Union's seat in Spain. It wasn't at all what I was expecting, it wasnt fancy at all, it was almost run down. And there was a halfheartedly removed grafitti of a swastika on the front, which I thought was pretty horrible. They barely tried to get rid of it, so we could still tell exactly what it was. You'd think getting rid of it would be a pressing issue.
They gave us EU pens, hats, keychains and bracelets though, so that was kinda randomly cool. And the seats in the meeting room were hot pink.

I'm going to visit Erin in less than two weeks in Strasbourg, and I'm really excited. I'm glad to be leaving Spain again and exploring somewhere new, and it also was just so much fun to be with Erin in Europe, I'm glad we get to do it again.
And now its less than a month until Lindsay comes and we go to Barcelona for Christmas, and just over a month to Brett and Paris. I'm getting SO excited for the both of them. Both visits are going to be so great, and are definitely needed.

I guess not too much has been going on recently, just day in day out stuff. The decorations are really big and elaborate here for Christmas. Its kinda exciting, though Thanksgiving is making me pretty homesick, too. But it is refreshing to have homesickness be a new feeling, its not anything close to what it was over a month ago. Now I'm generally happy with occasional pangs, instead of the other way around.

ALRIGHT. I have work to do! More pictures will be up soon!