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I´ve been getting really sick of a few things- everything in all the stores here is in English. Not the signs and whatnot, but the purses and shirts, etc. What a weird thing to have be fashionable. Then again, it must be kind of odd for the Japanese to see the shit we wear back at home.
90% of the students on the trip are girls... for a while I thought it was just great that I was hanging out with a group of them for once, but after a while the lack of testosterone really makes me go a little nuts. I forced Gordon to give me a hug the other night, though it took three tries for me to get him away from his homework.
I guess I kind of wish that I were here with Aaron and there were no mass bus trips involved. Not that I don´t like the stuff we´ve been doing, I´m just not one of those people who´s satisfied with drinking every night and such a qualitiy can leave you feeling kind of lonely here. It´s still been really hard to get a hold of Aaron at the right times, which isn´t helping. I suppose I should send him an E-mail...
For the record, Portugal is gorgeous and I cried when I saw the countryside because it was so perfect. I wanted to move into one of the little brick houses and herd goats. Lisbon is cool too but we saw only a few parts of it and everything wasn´t open all the time. I felt weird going to Fatima as well- if I were more religious maybe things would have been different, but I didn´t feel right being a tourist in a place like that when all the people are taking their pilgrimages and doing their thing. It turned into another excursion wandering around the city with Popi, which I do actually enjoy.
I would have written all this in Spanish, but none of the Americans here seem to want to speak (or try to speak) Spanish very much, so it´s been hard not see the whole thing as a bit pointless. We had no trouble making friends in Finland, though I should remember that we certainly weren´t speaking much Finnish to them. So I don´t know exactly what I´m getting at here. That I´m around too many people I already know to meet new ones? Then why don´t I just go out on my own? Well, I have been, somewhat. I´ve been taking a lot of walks. Mmm. Not sure exactly.
Liz and I are discussing a trip to Barcelona for our last few days here. We wanted to go to France but I think that trip would be the slightest bit larger than our wallets. I´d honestly like to find some random part of Portugal to explore, but I guess we´ll figure it out. Hopefully we can take a train and not a bus.
Oye, alright. More later I suppose.
Hasta luego
90% of the students on the trip are girls... for a while I thought it was just great that I was hanging out with a group of them for once, but after a while the lack of testosterone really makes me go a little nuts. I forced Gordon to give me a hug the other night, though it took three tries for me to get him away from his homework.
I guess I kind of wish that I were here with Aaron and there were no mass bus trips involved. Not that I don´t like the stuff we´ve been doing, I´m just not one of those people who´s satisfied with drinking every night and such a qualitiy can leave you feeling kind of lonely here. It´s still been really hard to get a hold of Aaron at the right times, which isn´t helping. I suppose I should send him an E-mail...
For the record, Portugal is gorgeous and I cried when I saw the countryside because it was so perfect. I wanted to move into one of the little brick houses and herd goats. Lisbon is cool too but we saw only a few parts of it and everything wasn´t open all the time. I felt weird going to Fatima as well- if I were more religious maybe things would have been different, but I didn´t feel right being a tourist in a place like that when all the people are taking their pilgrimages and doing their thing. It turned into another excursion wandering around the city with Popi, which I do actually enjoy.
I would have written all this in Spanish, but none of the Americans here seem to want to speak (or try to speak) Spanish very much, so it´s been hard not see the whole thing as a bit pointless. We had no trouble making friends in Finland, though I should remember that we certainly weren´t speaking much Finnish to them. So I don´t know exactly what I´m getting at here. That I´m around too many people I already know to meet new ones? Then why don´t I just go out on my own? Well, I have been, somewhat. I´ve been taking a lot of walks. Mmm. Not sure exactly.
Liz and I are discussing a trip to Barcelona for our last few days here. We wanted to go to France but I think that trip would be the slightest bit larger than our wallets. I´d honestly like to find some random part of Portugal to explore, but I guess we´ll figure it out. Hopefully we can take a train and not a bus.
Oye, alright. More later I suppose.
Hasta luego