I HAVE INTERNET!!!

So yesterday I made the long journey from Sevilla to Salamanca. It was an eight hour bus ride, and when the Spanish list 3 stops on the schedule you should be prepared to stop at least 6. But when I arrived to Salamanca my welcome was much better. I found the keys and the house with no problems. This city is a lot more like Madrid and is easier to figure out. The streets are larger (I will post pictures of the tiny streets of Sevilla sometime this week) and the buildings are much more decorative.
but despite the fact that Sevilla is a spiderweb of streets meant to trap tourists, I will always have good memories of the people I met there. I have realized one really large draw back to moving cities is having to leave people before you can really truly be friends. I met so many people in Sevilla that I really felt I wanted to know better. It is kind of lonely here so far. I miss the activity of the house in Sevilla. But I remember feeling somewhat the same about leaving Malaga.
Friday I went shopping with Louise and her friend from school, Lucy. I didn't buy anything but it was nice to look at all the shops in the center of town. I think if I hadn't been too scared to go out by myself and get lost I would have enjoyed more of what Sevilla had to offer, another reason I wish I had stayed there a little longer. Friday night we went out to the Plaza and met a lot of people from school and then we went to some strange bar until 4 in the morning again.
Yesterday when I arrived only one person was in the apartment, a guy from Brazil. He is nice, but is leaving at the end of the week. There was another girl I met later, though she does not speak much English (and I don't know about her Spanish). I don't know what country she is from, but she is Asian, as is my new roomate who arrived just a little while ago. I do not know much about her yet because she came and dropped her stuff off and then left quickly.
Today I did not do much. I was tired from going out on Friday night and not sleeping much on the bus. So I slept late and then went on the internet. I found a site that has Prison Break episodes, so I caught up. Then I went out for some food. I didn't stay out long because it was kind of cold (although I guess I shouldn't complain because I checked the weather for home and it's 30 degrees lower) and started to rain soon after I started walking.
Tomorrow I start classes here. It will be hard for my teachers here to top the teachers in Sevilla. I really enjoyed them, but I will give the ones here a chance. I also hope I meet some people at school because it does not seem like I will connect with the people in my house. It takes a little more work, but I guess that's good, since it seemed way too easy and convenient that the people in my house in Sevilla were so nice and easy to get along with. Maybe if I had stayed longer we all would have hated each other. No one knows. But I met some people in the school during the second week in Sevilla that I wish I could have known better. I had fun touring with them and going out and things.
I'm glad I have internet here because I was beginning to get a little homesick. Especially on Friday when I had to pack up and move.
Anyway I will be going to bed soon. I have a bit of a headache today. I will write soon and hopefully put up some pictures.

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