Sun, Leaves, Rain and Frost

So true to my predictions, the rest of Monday was spent doing a lot more shopping, till I went home at 9:15, after having been gone for 9 plus hours, made dinner, watched tv and went to bed.

Tuesday, I woke up at 5:30 and couldn´t go back to sleep. So after about an hour or so of fighting it, I woke up and wrote a bunch of postcards and called my dad. That took me to about 8 and I showered and left to go to guitar early and went to the post office and a store before! Then I had a really dissapointing lesson, because everything Antonio asked me about, I hadn´t practiced. He always asks, "Did you study blah, blah, blah?" And I sheepishly reply, no.... This time he said, "Good, I don´t want you to study." Oh dang, that hurts. Anyway, then I went home and went out on a walk with Emilio. We were out for 3 hours again. That guy does not know how to give short tours. Once again, we didn´t go anywhere I had been before. All new stuff. I don´t know how it seems that Granada just keeps getting bigger... We went to through the Albayzin, to a palace, and got a coffee and a cake in Emilio´s favorite place. I told him I didn´t like coffee, and he assured me I would like this coffee. He was wrong but I drank it all anyway. I was so tired and starting to feel the fact that I had woken up at 5:30, but we finally made it back and I ate a huge delicious lunch with them. Grilled squid, asparragus scramble, green bean and red pepper salad, and clams were on the menu. I couldn´t say no. Then I went upstairs and took a nap for 1.5 hrs. Then later in the afternoon I went and had 3 hours of class with Carletes, Marta, and Mari Angeles. I really like all of them and the classes we are having. They are all such nice, pleasant people, and its just great. Then I talked to my mom on the phone for a long time and my friends in Valladolid. Then I finally made dinner and ate it and went to bed.

Today I woke up and went to work, which was pretty easy. Only 2 hours with teachers, which are another favorite group. Then I came home and made lunch and spent the afternoon watching Friends, resting and using the internet because I borrowed the computer from Emilio and Pepa. Then I went out and bought some groceries and supplies for the road trip, and now I am back in my house blogging. Tomorrow we are leaving for Salamanca, and while this mini update catches me up, it was not the main purpose of this blog entry.

On the contrary, I have been wanting for some time to write about the changing weather here in Granada. When I go for a walk or a run, I always think of things that I want to write about the city, but then I forget, or don´t have time or spend 3 hours writing about what I did and it gets left behind. So I wanted to say that when I first arrived here in Granada, it was warm and sunny. Unusually so from what I remember of last October and November. But that changed around the middle of November when it started to get colder and the leaves began to fall. Anyone who has waited for the shuttle with me outside the Parkside Dorms, been my sister in Newcaslte, or walked with my anywhere where foilage had fallen on the pathway knows that I really like to crunch leaves. I had some amazing runs and walks here in Granada crunching piles of yellow leaves to my heart´s content to the stares of Spainards. Then it started to rain a lot and the leaves didn´t crunch anymore. The winds and the street sweepers took them all away and it got cold. Now there is frost on the grounds in the morning when I go out and it seems really cold to my wimpy Californian body. That´s all I have to say about the weather.