Spain Delay

So, as is apparent by the lack of recent updates, I haven't partaken in any blogging in a while mainly due to the fact that I haven't done any significant traveling the past 3 weeks. But then it dawned on me on one these beautiful Sevillan mornings, that that doesn't mean I don't have anything to report to my base of dedicated readers! Its like this author I really like; I started reading his books probably about 4 years ago and I read the first 3 books back to back to back. And then I had to wait about 5 months for the 4th one, so not to bad. But that 5th one! Its been three years and as far as I know hasn't even come out yet. I've forgotten the name of the author, the characters - in fact I couldn't even tell you the first thing about the series other than that I remember enjoying it to some degree or rather. Until it abruptly stopped. Worst of all I remember that the 4th book had an ending like this: ..... - as in, to be continued, or omg what is going to happen next, I can't wait to see! Anyways, in an attempt to avoid putting you guys in such a  dire fate that I still find myself dwelling in today, I decided to present everybody with a nice little update.

First, school. Its in all honesty, been a bit too much like school. As in things like class. And work. And tests. I think that we all come here with the kind of impression that its going to be a semester or year long vacation with a couple little cosas to do on the side. But this past month its most definitely taken a turn to the escuela side of life. Since Dublin I've had two presentations and 5 midterms. Which leaves me with one more presentation, a couple of Spanish papers and finals to worry about this coming month. This has kind of hindered me from taken advantage of being in Europe, but the good thing is that it has reminded me that I'm in Spain. I'm in Sevilla. Those first couple of months I did so much traveling that I completely forgot to take advantage and appreciate all of the things that I have around here to do. So since then I've been aimlessly wandering the city, looking at whatever looks interesting, going to coffee shops and picking up newspapers in attempts to like a local (using the newspaper to hide my map of course - it is a little bit embarrassing, but I still haven't grown out of my getting lost in Sevilla phase), participating in Flamenco and yoga classes, and I just started a volunteer job that involves teaching kids english. The Flamenco class is offered through the school and its once a week. Unfortunately its a bit pricy so I've been sneaking in (there have only been three classes) but I think my cover is beginning to blow over being that I'm one of three guys, the only American - and the only one who has no prior Flamenco experience. I think I'll try to get in there for one more class then I'm planning on taking my winnings (or my "learnings") and leaving the dance floor before they take the dance floor from me. In addition to this fun little class, my gym offers yoga classes and the other week out of some persistent lower back pain, I decided to go check it out. I walked in to the room about 3 minutes late and was greeted by the glaring eyes of 20 old, spanish ladies. At Flamenco I might have been the only American, but here not only was I the single American, but also the only guy (other than the instructor) and the only person below about 60 years of age. The first thing the instructor told us to do was close our eyes, which was the last thing I personally wanted to hear because I had no idea how I was going to last a whole class doing something I had never done in a language that, well, isn't exactly my native tongue without being able to see what everybody else was doing. But I snuck some peaks here and there just so I wasn't completely lost, hustled out of the room when class was over, and made a vow to just stretch out my lower back in the privacy of my own room from here on out.

Lets see what else has happened recently.... hmmmmmmmm.... well there's a film festival here in Sevilla so I went to see a movie that was made in Denmark with spanish and english subtitles (its a great way of becoming familiar with a language) called "When Heaven Falls". And it was incredibly depressing so I don't want to go into many more details about it. I met the producers of a new Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz movie thats being filmed here in Sevilla and is scheduled to come out in theaters July 2, 2010. I offered my acting services free of charge and they said that they need to do a "running of the bulls" reenactment and might need some replacements. Unfortunately I didn't have any business cards to give them so it looks like my days of movie stardom are still somewhere off in the future.

O ya, I'm going to be traveling in Europe for about a month over Christmas so if anybody has some ideas or recommendations about places I should go I would love to hear them. I've always had a sort of fascination with Switzerland and Austria so I'm going to those places for sure and I would love to do some skiing if thats at all possible. And if anybody wants to tag along feel free! haha

Darn, I can't think of anything else right now. I feel like there was more but then I get writing about one thing and forget about the other and find myself here, stuck in this little writers block rut. Well, if I remember I will be sure to put them up sooner rather than later. Tomorrow my goal is to get some more pictures up here as well so we'll see if I follow through on that one. Ok, thats about it. Im going to go click the publish post button now, alright, here goes nothin....