Shawn & Ryan...Today was a big let down. Wanted to get a lot more studying and work done that I needed to get done. My throat felt a little scratchy and I just decided to lay down most of the day. I have noticed that one of the most overwhelming things about studying abroad is just the absence of time to relax. Surely the classes we are taking are not as difficult and time-consuming as a lot of the courses we normally take at OU, but the deciding factor here is that we are in a class that never lets out -- we are constantly prodded to get out of our comfort zone to speak Spanish. Sometimes I feel like simply retreating into my room and hibernating under the covers until June.
Last night was fun and interesting, though. Billy probably has about five love interests now, which I find really amusing. All of the girls are really nice and I think Billy has a really good chance. We'll see. Last night we started out by hanging out at this bar called 'She-Bar,' stayed their until all the girls left at 10 (the time of their curfew), met up with Shawn and Ryan at this bar called Tinku, and then later settled down at some live music club where a band was playing a lot of latin and blues music. It was more of an upscale place (upscale meaning that dinner plates cost $6.00 instead of $3.00) than normal but people didn't seem to mind.
Ended up going to bed sometime around 1:30 or 2:00AM.
Tonight was really good after feeling so homesick and static all day. Ryan and Shawn are some really great guys. We went to this pizza place nearby our houses called Little Italy Pizzeria. We got a jumbo pizza (16 slices!) for about fourteen dollars. Eating dinner and hanging out with Ryan and Shawn made me feel a little better from being so homesick.
