A New Day

I've decided that I need to start writing better posts [haha, apologies for the "weaksauce" of past posts]. It's really not that I don't have time to do them, I just have nothing to talk about, really. I don't do much here (which I know, I really should), but it's quite difficult, considering 1) I don't have any friends and 2) I'm scared. haha, I know how lame that sounds, but it's true. BUT. I'm trying to change that.
So living with the roommates have been quite antisocial on my part. I tend to stay in my room. I think I'm scared of my roommates? hahaha...well, really, I'm just scared of the Spaniard because she's very intimidating. And it was actually after this one incident. She kinda yelled at me. Well, not really, but I think she thought I was an idiot. No need to go into details, but it had to do with a microwave and a lack of plugs. But anywho, I might've blown it out of proportion, but I was scared of her after that. It's gotten better now, though. I say "Hola" whenever I see her, but nothing much past that. I don't really mind, though. I just want to get out more, and that is the plan.
So I was looking at my calendar and I have at least one 4 day weekend every month till I get out of school (sweet, huh?), so I'm planning on making trips at least once a month. This month, Mary is coming to visit me in Spain, so we're going to Seville one weekend, and Madrid the next weekend. So that's TWO trips in one month (makes up for last month, I suppose..)
Beginning of December, I'm planning to go to a Dashboard Confessional concert with someone I met in the EAP Program. The concert is in Birmingham (or Luxembourg, we haven't decided which one we're going to go to), so that's trip number two.
Then there's Winter Break and I'm am thinking of going to MANY countries in that time. =D I haven't planned it exactly, don't even know who I'm going with, but I'll figure it out. AND I WILL GO. If anything, I'll go alone. I can be a lone traveler. Might even make things more interesting....=P
Then for the 4 day weekend after the winter break, I'm thinking I'll go to Portugal....just cuz it's nearby, and I probably shouldn't go far when I only have 4 days.
Then for Spring Break, I want to go to France and Budapest to visit Jayme and Mary! I'm actually not sure if those two are very far apart, but I'll have a whole 10 days to do the trip, so that'll probably work well...
THEN. That's all I've got. HAHAHA Well, it'll come to me as it comes closer. But the prospect of future trips have brightened my days. I must admit, I've been pretty sad these days. It's just that school is so hard (oh, I'll write about that after), I haven't met anyone I feel close to, and I can't communicate with anyone. It definitely hasn't been the study abroad experience I was imagining. Before I came, I thought I was so ready to meet new people and all that stuff. But when I got here, I found that I sorta isolated myself. I know, it's horrible, but since I've done that, I've kind of gotten used to it. But I'm going to try really hard to change. The other day, in class, I started up a mini conversation with a random dude in class. Ok, granted, it was because I needed to ask what happened in the previous class, but I asked him where he was from and stuff after all the class stuff, so I thought that was pretty sociable...hahahha
Anywho, school is SOOOO hard! I understand maybe.....10 percent of what the teachers say. I can't even take notes because even if I do understand, once I try to write it down, I realize that I can't remember what he said. I think I get the overall meaning, but I try to be nit-picky, and I want to write down the exact phrase. Like, I can tell you right now that in my Literature class, he talked about man being a servant, or something like that, it's some theory with feudalism vs another -ism, but I couldn't take any notes on that because I couldn't put it into Spanish words (I try to take notes in Spanish). And then in my Econ (I mean, EX-Econ class---I dropped it), the professor made us make little name tags to put on our desk SO THAT HE COULD CALL ON US! Oh my gosh, it was so scary. He called on me once, but I didn't know what he said. I thought I heard him say "Estas de acuerdo?" which means "do you agree?" and so I said very slowly, "...Si?" Then he looked at me funny and moved on. Ohhh man, that was bad. And then the next day, the second day of class, we had a quiz! I didn't even know a quiz was going on, but I looked around and realized that everyone was writing and being quiet. And I was sitting in the front (to try to show that I didn't get scared away the first day of sitting in the front) and so he was looking at me, and I think he thought I was cheating. Ohhhh, horrible. I didn't even know what the question was.
So yes. School is hard. I mean, I know that I'm still adjusting, and it'll get easier eventually, but I'm just waiting for that to happen. My sister told me that the first three months are the worse, so hopefully by the end of November, I'll be writing much happier posts.
In the meantime, I've been watching a lot of shows online, reading Harry Potter in Spanish (which, by the way, is going pretty well. I read out loud to myself, and I don't look up words. I just guess because I know the story. For example, I learned that the word "cicatriz" means scar). Yes. It was definitely a good idea to start reading HP in Spanish. I'm planning on watching shows in Spanish soon. I just figured out how to find shows online in Spanish, so I'm gonna try watching things I've seen a billion times, like Friends. I would watch Alias, or something like that, but I think those words might be a bit more on the difficult side...
I'm also trying to be on top of my homework and whatnot. I have quite a bit of reading to do, which I actually don't mind. I wish all my classes assigned readings, because then I could prepare for the lecture and have a better idea of what's going on. But I take a really long time to do the readings. First I go through it in Spanish, reading it in Spanish, and circling the words I don't know. Then I look up the words and write them down, and then I go through the reading again and translate. Then I look for key points and whatnot. It's a very long process.
I'm planning on going shopping this weekend. I want a jacket and a purse.
My credit card got temporarily blocked. I'm so pissed about that because I called them before I left and told them that I would be out of the country. Freakin WaMu....

Ok. I suppose that's all. Got to get back to reading. Hope you enjoyed this post =)