Sadness

Today was a day mixed of sad and happy...things are coming to an end :(

Woke up and then went back to bed. Skipped breakfast to sleep in a bit and then went to school at 10:30 for a tour of Avila's Jewish and Muslim neighborhoods of old with Serafin. We walked around for two hours while he talked about a lot of stuff and showed off how many people he knows in Avila. Then we had a little ponche segoviana for a "we are almost done" treat before going back to school where he dropped 100 pages of reading and an essay on us...due next week the day of our exam. Bitch. After Camilia complained a bit about how unreasonable that was he got rid of our exam and all we have to do is write the essay. yay. It is 3000 words though and I don't really want to do it. ugh.

I spent the afternoon writing my final paper for mysticism which I had prepared a presentation for only to find out I needed to write something out. 3 hours and 8 pages! WHOOO. Good thing I did it too because Camilia and I went to class only to find out that Javier was in Costa Rica and we were done with class...don't know how he expected us to turn in our work. We left it with a priest from the university who we know cause he had guest-lectured with us once. Awesome guy. Anyways, he took our papers and said he'd take care of it.

Returned to the resi to find Angela, Courtney, and Antonio sitting out in the sun so I joined them and we chatted for a bit. Had to leave eventually due to the fact that because we didn't have class we had to go to a concert that Gabriela was requiring of baroque music. It turned out to be amazing. The soprano sang sooo beautifully. Mozart was a genius. When the concert finished we stopped at the bodeguita for a glass of wine and tapas because we had missed dinner. 2 euros for a meal. Sounds good to me. They served us jamon serrano with olive oil and parmasean on bread with mushrooms in a cream sauce. yum.

Everyone keeps talking now about leaving and it is seriously bumming me out.