annoying people suck

this week was awesome, and this weekend was well on its way to being just as awesome. all week i was working on a huge presentation with ( i use the word with loosely because i met with my partner one time) my russian partner who im convinced wears the same thing everyday. and i had finally finished it and presented it on friday, which we both did amazing on. he came through actually and did a good job, i think i was a little nervous becuase the presentation could have been either amazing or sucky due to the very vage topic. but it turned out great, and i had a talk with my teacher and she doesnt hate me anymore she understands that its 8:30 in the morning. and then i laid out in the sun all afternoon (and fell asleep out there for a bit). then my friend called me and we headed to placa catalunya for some shopping/starbucks. so thats when i realized that i have the ability to put up with/like anyone in the world as long as they are not annoying. because i soon found out that my mexican/spanish/german ( what a combo) friend is a TOTAL FLAMING redneck!!! he likes guns and shootin crap, and killin crap, and he likes knives, the country, mccain, bullfighting. and he wants to shoot vegeterians in the face. but we get along great and we dont argue. hes a tolerant redneck i shall say. i came to this conclusion about annoying people later that night when i went to Irish bar with a "friend" who will remain anonymous. we were sitting around enjoying live music and people watching drinking cheapo-shmeapo beer and nasty bar food. and this "freind" starts to get really drunk, and then peer pressures my other friend to get drunk as well. while im just like ok i just wanna chill. (remember its only 3 of us) so its allllmooooosssttt time for us to go back to the residence and he (being drunk) makes us go to this club and dance for maybe 30 mins, which is fine but the two moods of "chilling listening to music" and "dance club" are at such opposite ends of the spectrum that i wasnt even interested in going. but we go anyway, and this "friend" procedes to make as much noise as possible walking down the street that everyone in the street is staring at us, and he walks down the street in a Zig Zag motion as to annoy as many passerbys as possible. then when we get to the place he wont go in until he finds "the guy" that hands out paper for free shots. i would like you to remember that we have approx 20 mins before we have to leave. so we go in and this security guy stops us and gets pissed and yells "cuantos anos tienes" which is how old are you. and then proceeds to call us all "ninos" or kids and tries to make us leave. but we go in anyway cause the drinking age is like 15 in spain, so we get in there and the place is full of bachelorettes and gay guys with no shirts. and by then i was pretty tired of everything but i danced a little but i wasnt dressed for a club, or in the club mood so i was kinda standing there. then "the friend" starts yelling, and him and the other person i was with start dancing all over each other and yelling, and im left on the side being a bump on a log. finally when we get back to the residence the "friend" starts singing and yelling and asking everyone on the street what their name is and just being a total drunkie. and since the other person was drunk they were just feeding off each other being crazy loons while everyone in our neighborhood was staring at us like bafoons. and this is not like the first time its ever happened. every time me and the "friend" go out its like this, so its kind of a recurring theme. and its getting old REALLY fast.

therefore i came to the conclusion that i can hangout, like, enjoy and be friends with anyone in the world. doesnt matter if you are a lazy russian partner of mine on a class project, or a FLAMING redneck from mexico. but i can not, will not, and never want to hang out with annoying loud, crazy, rude, and/or stupid people.

p.s. i might be getting a bicycle monday!!

Buen Idea

this week/weekend has been more than fun filled, pretty much above fun filled. so in order not to bore anyone im going to abridge this weekend into a short list

• sat-mom came in town, rented a car and headed south for the winter. Had a huge ammount of trouble finding a map of spain (?) and paid a fortune in toll booth fees.
  
• sunday- laid in the sun all day and got sun burnt. was the best day in a while. the weather was amazing and we drank fresh OJ with amazing food. Mira (my cousin) was really sick with some virius so we didnt see her at all really
• mon- went to the valencia zoo (where koen works) and got a really great tour. the zoo is awesome ( im going to have pics on facebook) we were supposed to go back to barcelona afterwards but we decided to stay another day.
  
• tuesday- got up kinda early and read out in the sun. relaxed. then we headed back to the big city, the weather was amazing as well. i followed these crazy girls around the residence and watched them terrorize the boys. we were in the bous building and i noticed there was hair EVERYWHERE. like all over the stairs and floor. i went into shock for a min because it looked like they had a shaving party in the hallway then swept it down the stairs. boys are gross and smelly.eewww.
  
• wednesday- I played in probably the most fun soccer game so far. It was like 6 girls agaisnt 4 guys and we had so much fun. it was definitley a free for all and about halfway through we gave up on the rules as well. me and rosario made a great foward team and scored most of the goals. my friend mario was the goalee for the other team and he kept trying to mess with us so we would miss. then me mario and rosario went for a short run after the game. it was more like a long sprint, we only had 30 mins total before the gate was locked for the night so we did have a sense of urgentcy.
  

So as you can see the weekend/week was fun. however i didnt really go to class. but i dont think anyone missed me, and i sure didnt miss them. i had a group project due on wednesday about the development of the blackberry and my group and i met and talked on the internet. i sent the my powerpoint and when i got the final product it looked like they had deleted just about everything i sent them and made up their own information. so i was pretty pissed. but i found this out about 10 mins before the presentation so i couldnt do anything about it. i had to wing it.

on my way up to my room i stopped on the 2nd floor study room and some people were in there talking politics. i found out that yesterday was the anniversary of a terrorist attack that happened in madrid. it was about as equally as horrible as 9/11. not only did i not know that it even happened, but i didnt even notice anything going on. apparently police were everywhere with their noses in everyones business. it kind of made me realize how much control our governemnt has on our lives. its supposed to be for the people by the people. but unknowingly they have gained all the control and no one even has realized it. there is a system of checks and balances in state ( i learned that in 8th grade) but what happens if every section of the checks and balances are equally corrupt? then what? im really happy with obama and what he is doing, he is scratching the surface of the corrupt-ness with his tax audits. but really its the whole system. i think mainly im upset with the news. i think if people had a more objective news then we would be a little more open minded. news in the US is not news. its propoganda. newspapers and news here are pretty much amazing. its pretty wierd to walk into the cafeteria and see students my age all reading the wall street journal europe. thats a sight to see.

My new straigtener

I went to go plug in my straightener and it wouldnt turn on. so either i blew it up plugging it into a 220v outlet, even though I had a converter on there, or its just being annoying. Normally I would not care what my hair was doing, and usually its pretty straight all on its own. but recently its been doing this thing where it poofs out and has some waves in it????? so i had to buy one for fear of looking like a 12 year old. the cheapest one i could find was, yep you gessed it, a hannah montanna straightener. YAY

Ok enough of that. My dad came in on saturday to Barcelona and I went to go pick him up from the airport, it was quite an event. I have determined that spanish people are all skinny because it is SO hard to do anything here. It takes so much effort to do the simplest things. It took me an hour and 2 trains get to the airport not to mention the walking i had to do to get to the train station and to get from the train station to the airport. ouch. by then i was pooped. so we took a cab to the hotel. I stayed at the hotel that night and in the morning i had a nice continental breakfast that I managed to spill all over myself. So i then blew up another hair appliance by trying to dry my clothes with the hair dryer. It got too hot or something and just stopped working. The main thing we did this weekend was walk, and go to the museum which is free every first sunday of the month. On monday he headed off to England to visit some cousins that we have never met, and i stayed here to take a test ahhhh. the test wasnt that bad, i just dont know how this guy grades so i think i could do really good as long as he wasnt expecting me to write him a book, He did give us like 5 sheets of paper and I only used one front and back. (i wrote small dont fret)

I managed to do all that while coming down with something horrible I think i have yet another cold or something. at least this time my nose isnt running for the hills, last cold i had (only 2 weeks ago) was horrible, i think i went through 3 rolls of toilet paper. in two days.

Nothing too super exciting has been going on, i have started to get alot more homework and that is taking up most of my time. the weekends are still jam packed with stuff to do so I always look foward to them. I got invited again to go out this thursday with some peple from the residence. i keep telling them i have a class on friday at 8.30 and they are like ahhhh nooo just come out its nothing just come party. i dont know how they do it. i have decided that spanish people dont sleep. it must be how they eat all this horrible food, because they are so tired that they dont realize what they are eating and the residence can just feed them anything and they wont notice.

I also have some rediculious paperwork to do by the end of this week, it is for the renewal of my student visa and my international student card. Its kind of annoying. but right now i am waiting on a letter from carlos (head of the residence) so that the visa place will believe me that I am living here and going to school. Phillip and Justin went today and phillip got his accepted but justin didnt, apparently they didnt have the right paperwork and the guy didnt notice at first but he had already processed phillp's. lucky. They make it so hard to do its almost impossible to get done in a timely manner. its like they want us to fail......booooo
ok im hungry and its dinnertime so hopefully i wont have fried mystery meat again like I did last night...