I think the lack of sleep is starting to catch up with me. My señora doesn´t make coffee in the morining and there isn´t a place on the way to school, although there are several starbucks and cafés in the opposite direction.

Yesterday I did take a siesta. It´s so strange to wake up from a nap at 7 pm. 7 is actually a bit late for siesta, but I had been up talking with my roommate. She and I get along pretty well. She´s from San Fransisco, is a year younger than me, and goes to UPenn.

Her native language is Chinese and she didn´t learn English until she was 13, when she moved to the states. She doesn´t have any sort of accent and I never would have guessed she was not a native english speaker. She has only completed one year of beginner spanish at UPenn, but knows so much. The Ivy League usually doesn´t take dummies.

Anyway, since she´s so motivated to become fluent in Spanish, she signed up for an intercambio. This is a student at the universidad de sevilla who wants to improve his spanish. Kind of like a tutor, except you don´t have to have one and you don´t necessarily study.

I joined them last night for an ice cream. He´s single and 25, Soo. Maybe you should just come to Sevilla and meet Félix. After ice cream, the three of us sat in a restaurant for a glass of wine. It´s was interesting and I picked up on things they don´t necessarily teach in the class rooms. Lots of colloquialism phrases and different cultural views. He is a better English speaker than we are Spanish speakers, but we tried. That´s why we´re here.

I haven´t hung out with a ton of the people in the program yet. I need to do that to figure out if I´ll be doing any traveling. Tomorrow we are taking a day trip to the cathedral, which is the largest gothic cathedral in the world. It´s a local trip. This weekend we are going to Málaga, which is where y suitcase supposedly was.

The suitcase really never left Madrid. We called this morning and they should be sending it today or tomorrow. Which is good on account of I don´t like washing my clothes in a sink....

Not sure what I´m up to yet this afternoon. Maybe just walk around, it´s pretty nice out. I need to get some things for school. Soo´s notebook is what I´ve been using for class.

Okay, I have to go back to class. (I wrote most of my entry before it, when I came early, but my computer shut down. Luckily a draft was saved).

TTYL :)