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.