Baraka

Today I slept through my alarm. Camilia knocked on my door for breakfast and I got ready in 10 minutes and had time to eat breakfast before going to school. Gabriela needs to change our meeting time for tutoring...that means that I don't have to worry about getting back ASAP from Madrid when I see the game there! YAY!

It was very strange weather today. It was sunny, then raining, then sunny...craziness. I have re-found the Arctic Monkey's cover of Take it or Leave it by The Strokes...great stuff.

Been reading a lot today of the history book. Good to go over the info a second time I think, but it's all very familiar so I guess I understood it the first time. 2 days till we leave for Morocco!

In our Mysticism class today we watched a movie called "Baraka". It was really good and our conversation afterward was almost as interesting. Had a little trouble saying what I wanted to once, but think it went ok otherwise.

The whole movie is without words and it just shows scenes of spirituality and puts these against scenes of nature and contrasts these with the rhythm of modern life and the realities of our existence...it was pretty crazy.

Our Professor though said that it's a refreshing example of spirituality. In our society we hear so much and discuss religion, but the essence of religion is the spirituality and the practices and sentiments of the experience. This is what the movie showed. Interesting stuff.

Camilia and I had to speed-walk it back to the residencia for dinner: noodle soup and fried chicken wings. haha. yum.

More reading. I want to go for a run.

ALSO: Proma is coming on SB with EJ and I and we are going to see Christine in ROME!