Four days and counting...and something to think about

That´s right only four more days left of classes and I´m done! (at least here in Spain!) I think it´s great that we´re going back to england and it will give me some time to get my grad school stuff together and work before going back home. I´m really excited about grad school now!!! If they had a place for me at Manchester this year and would give me money, I would be there in a heart beat. But that seems very unlikely.

Nothing much is new here. I just keep meeting more american tourists everyday that are clueless. After being in Europe for so long I know realize why people don´t always like us...we are spoiled rotten. We´re not happy with only one television in the living room, there has to be one in each bedroom. One computer isn´t enough for the family now a days, each teenager has to have thier own as well. I´ve started realizing this and it actually has made me sick to this that we are a culture of materialistic consumers who constantly live beyond thier means. I mean here I am living in Spain on money that I worked hard for and saved up every dime I could, with only a few euros in my pocket and living off 10-15 euros a week, and sitting next to me at the internet cafe were two american girls who were my age and thought that 320 dollars for a hotel for three nights in Barcelona was a good deal. We are a generation who has been raised, god help us, to not have any concept of the value of money. To them it is literally something that grows on trees. Any we wonder why millions of people are up to thier eyeballs in debt and our economy is in the toilet. It´s easy to point the fingure at that clown we have for a president, who has by no means helped our nation´s situation, but just look in the mirror. If anything is going to change it should first off be the way we are brought up to think about money. Every 16 year old in the country should be a bagger at the grocery store instead of chatting on the internet and updating thier Myspace. People all over the world think the states is this great land of opportunity and everyone has a deram and the right to pursue it, but something has to be said when there is an entire generation of young people, who freely live in this land, and don´t realize or value what they have at thier fingertips. It makes my stomach turn and I'm sad to say that at one time I would have even considered myself a bit clueless and I only was able to open my eyes when I moved outside the snowglobe we know as the USA. It´s not that I don´t love my contry or don´t value being american, Matt will be the first to say I´m the most patriotic american he´s ever met, I just want what´s best for it, and at the rate we´re going we´re making our nation ill.

Anyways...off the soap box. That´s about it. It´s cooled down here becasue there´s a storm coming. Matt siad there was thunder and lightening in the mountains last night. Nothing down here, even though it´s only 40km away...go figure. Hope all is well. Talk soon!!!

2 weeks went by fast....

That it did becasue it´s now the first of August! Matt has been well...working his butt off. He came home one night becasue he had the night off and didn´t tell me. All I heard were the keys in the door and I thought some pyscopathic spanish rapist was after me.

He just went back to the work today after having four days off. In those four days we drank a lot of cerveza amuzed ourselves in Paseo de los Tristos playing card in the shadow of the Alhambra and general marriment. We got a flight back to Britain on August 21 at one in the morning, so again no one should be too bothersome on customs and immigration -- i hope.

Sorry I haven´t written in a while, the computers at school don´t work thatt well and I´ve been busy getting stuff together to apply to grad school!!!! That´s right Matt and I have decided to apply for 2008 to pursue our Masters degrees in Britain and Manchester is showing a lot of interest...which is good becasue it can lead to things like scholarships!!! But that´s a year away yet....first we have to get in.

I only have 7 days of classes left and I feel like my spanish is improving by the day. I feel like I´m finally getting over the confidence barrier of opening my mouth and letting the words come out.

That´s about it for now....talk soon.

love you all!!