Weather
Well it has rained a hell of a lot which is a joke, I can see rain in the U.K I don't want to see it here!! Also it is not good when you don't have any waterproof shoes. My mission of tomorrow is to find some! My poor boots have got soaked through to the point that they have officially died. It is not acceptable to wear shoes any longer that let in whole puddles and drench my socks/feet.
University
Haha, still the biggest joke ever and often result in me and Sophia turning to alcohol at the end of the day! Yesterday I had classes from 11am until 8pm with only a one hour break for lunch! That is sooo painful trust me!
Some teachers here are utter pricks as well - like my Italian teacher who likes to pick on people. If they can't answer his question fast enough he says ''you are boring me'' and moves on to the next person! He also wants us to buy a course book that costs €37... jog on mate! For one semester I don't think so! Instead I decided to get it copied like a lot of people in the class have done. A girl from my class lent me the book so I went off to get it copied on Wednesday... Well like everything out here, it didn't go to plan. I got told that I could only copy a tenth of the book in one shop and that I couldn't copy any of the book in another due to copyright laws. Dejected, I returned home and told my housemate who recommended me a shop on the same street as the others I visited that day and insisted I would be able to get the whole book copied there. So off I went again in look for this shop and low and behold it turned out to be the one that had told me that they couldn't copy books...
I returned home quite annoyed. Luckily my housemate kindly offered to go down to the shop herself as she knew someone that worked there and he would do it for her. Phew! I could have been in big trouble if I couldn't get a copy of the stupid book!
The only good thing about UGR is the food. You can get a 3 course meal including bread for €4.50. Noooom!!!
An example of one of the dishes yesterday - squid in a red wine sauce :D
This is definitely not something you would see in Avenue Café!!!
Partying
I went out clubbing sometime last week with Sophia and a group of girls we are friends with and Sophia had the genius idea to draw mustaches onto our faces. However, she got a little over-excited with mine and I ended up looking like Hitler. Needless to say, we had to wipe it off before leaving as I didn't want to get killed! Instead I got cat's whiskers drawn on me - cute!
The crazy ones amongst us with our faces painted!
No crazy stories to report though - other than the strange looks we got as you can imagine!
Things I have noted about Spain
1. The smell of weed. It is everywhere! On the streets, at uni... I really didn't think the Spanish would need to chill out much more! Which leads me onto my next point;
2. The laidbackness (new word lol). The teachers don't really give a toot. You can stroll into class half an hour late, you can wander off to the toilet for twenty minutes - no-one cares! There is no hurry here to do anything.
3. The amount of strikes. I know the students here are annoyed by the cuts in education and the increasing price of university but they aren't getting their monies worth by striking almost every week! Suits me though, less boring classes to attend!
Can't think of any more at the moment but I will continue this list on another post as more come to mind!!
Laters xxx
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