Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Sweeeefffffffffff. Undunger.
I'm totally not stalling to study for my Greece/Roman history test. Of course not. Nor my ethics homework. Nor my math homework. Nor my literature homework and of course not my bio/geo homework.

Yeah. Having a blast here. >.> Really not doing so well on the tests. It's way harder to get a good grade here than in the US because they go by numbers - each test is worth 10pts only and a lot of times only 5 questions, so if you just miss one tiny question it's automatically an 8 = 80% = B in the US. Plus the only thing that enters in the final grade are test grades and rarely classwork/homework. I need to keep up my 4.0, which means i need to end up with at least a 9/10 in every class here. Which means I need at least a 9.9 on all the rest of my sophomore math tests (I was a complete idiot that day and got a 6.5 because I was careless on 3 of the problems), a 9.7 on all the rest of my junior math tests (apparently they've done something I haven't and it was on the test, so I didn't know how to do it), and probably 9.9 on history too...Still don't know. God. Physics/chem. and bio./geo. I'm not worried about...

Last weekend (the 7th) was the birthday of the daughter of my host family (Maria Isabel). On Saturday night we went clubbing with her friends (I got asked to dance and/or make out by a couple random guys...I said no. XD A lot of the people there were like, "Look! A Chinese girl!" or, "Look! A shortie!!" XD), and on Sunday we probably ate a total of 4000 calories. Yeah. I felt pretty terrible Monday. We threw a surprise party too for her on Sunday, which was really fun. :)

This Thursday my mom's coming to visit me from Germany (she's on some work thing there) and my step-dad and my brother from the US. While I'm excited to see my brother...My mom not so much. I miss my doggie though. :( My mom's been going crazy and calling me and my friend's mom and just basically freaking out about it. Friday's a national holiday and they won't be able to do anything, really...And for the weekend we've already booked a hotel in Valencia, but there've been floods recently in Valencia...And so my mom's been changing her plans this way and that, and I'm trying to keep up with her so I know what the hell we're doing and what to ask my host family's mom to do as far as picking them up/dropping them off goes or for visits or for who-knows-what. Ugh. >_>

Okay. To your books, RH.

Luvs and hugs from Madrid,
RH
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