Alergias

I've figured out the problem. I'm allergic to weekend. There are a few things that can be used to treat this allergy: pizza, gelato, bus rides, the Echo, writing letters/postcards, Catch-22, and chocolate frosting. But the only real cure is a Monday. Yay! It's Monday!

It wasn't really a bad weekend. It's just that yet again, the weekend brought this tremendous flood of missing people. Yet still amidst all the homesickness, I still feel like I'm supposed to be here. And there were even several times this weekend when I was happy to be here. Yep. That's right. I'm happy to be here. That doesn't mean it's easy. But hopefully that means that I'm learning to trust Jesus just a little bit more.

Anyway, the plan for Friday was to eat in a pizzeria by Sarah's house and then go to a movie. But go figure, the pizza place was closed when we went at 7. (Because nobody here eats supper until around 9). So we hiked out to the movie theater instead, but when we couldn't agree on a movie, we just wandered around the mall. That was the time when I was feeling really allergic to the weekend. I just got in kind of this weird funk and missed people from home so much. But when we (Sarah, Erin, Chrissa, Kaitlyn, and I) finally came back and had pizza, that cheered me up. The pizza was AMAZING!!! Sarah and I shared a vegetable pizza. Yum! That definitely helped me feel better. Plus, it was just fun to eat out of the house with friends for once. I really miss that about Taylor...the whole eating together as a wing thing. And the whole getting to decide what you want to eat thing.

After pizza, Sarah and I went to get gelato. That also cheered me up greatly!!!! I love gelato! After that we didn't feel like going home. But we also didn't feel like going to a bar or a cafe. So we decided to hop on a bus. We jumped on the first bus that came...had no idea where it was going...it was great! We felt like we were going so fast (probably because it was the first time in weeks that we'd been in a moving vehicle), and it was so much fun! But then, we got out to the other end of the city (close to the movie theater) and the bus driver turned the lights off so we had to get out. And we walked back once again. It was really funny and lots of fun!

(Oh, also, Friday afternoon was really relaxing because I spent it sitting by the river, reading the Echo, and writing letters. How nice!)

Saturday was nothing special. I slept in which was good. And then I got really sad/irritated again when Sarah, Erin, Chrissa, and I went out to study. I just missed people again I guess. I was sad and exhausted and went to bed early that night.

Sunday was not bad. Erin and I met Sarah in the park before church to listen to a sermon in English. And then we went to church...the same one we've been to the past 2 weeks. That was really good because there was a guest speaker who was so easy to understand. I took a long nap after lunch and then I did some studying. Later I just had to get out of the house so I went for a walk and sat in the Puerta de Jerez to read Catch-22. That was relaxing. When I came back, we had supper which included cake with chocolate frosting leftover from the neighbor's birthday. Yum! That was the last thing that helped cheer me up. And now it is Monday so I am currently very happy!

Sorry that was very kind of haphazardly written. I just wanted to kind of spit everything up here. I always get really spastic with my computer time on Mondays because I haven't been online all weekend. And this weekend I hardly even saw my computer since Sarah was borrowing it because hers wasn't working. So hopefully this makes at least a little sense.

Things I am looking forward to: the library this afternoon, La Torre del Oro tomorrow, La Catedral on Wednesday, Toledo this weekend, and my family coming in less than 3 weeks!!!!! I miss you all. But I am glad to be here.