so i officially have a huge girl crush on christina, my madre's 22 year old daughter. and if my spanish understanding is correct, she invited me to hang out with her friends at a discoteca gratis tomorrow night that she says is really fun so that'll be sweet. she's just such a magdelena; always singing to Lou and doing this thing where she makes a pretend monster out of her fist and makes him play-attack her, and she loves throwing in random english phrases like "i like cheese" and "party party party, sex drugs and rock and roll."

i don't know what it is about getting a full night's sleep that makes me so exhausted but i fell asleep at 10 last night, intending to wake up and go meet chris' intercambio friend but just slept all night and was still exhausted all day. so i think i'm going to revert back to the late nights lifestyle for my health's sake. dad, you should be proud, it's a scientific process and i'm testing my hypothesis, right?

today i had my first test here, and did fine. it was in grammar review and was just on the present and indefinite tenses so as long as i look over notes for that class and make sure to study the picky exceptions to the rules, i should be alright. i have my first test in cultural conversations on thursday but seeing as we spent the day learning pick up lines and ways to tell boys to leave us alone at bars, i'm not quite sure what to expect. maybe a real life scenario of an annoying boy in a club??

went to the beach after classes and studied a little with some friends and of course, don and the baron. juggled a soccer ball a little with some people from england and switzerland and talked to the swiss girl about good places to visit there if i end up going to stay with charlie's parent's friends. i talked to hannah today and might meet her in granada since i'm not doing the school trip there this weekend? or might go somewhere with chris and buehler if any of us feel like getting it together? who knows, i'm free as a bird and want to explore everywhere so the possibilities are (somewhat) endless. just no random trips with random sketchy people, mom and dad i swear.

went for a run in the rio again and worked up a nice sweat before dinner and chatting with madre and christina in spanish. i really need to start speaking in spanish with my friends all day to keep practicing so that it's not just 4 hours a day in spanish and the rest of the day in english. it's hard to remember when you're in a group of english people to speak spanish though. but i'm going to meet up with my own intercambio as soon as i get an email from geraldine at school so hopefully that'll be helpful to meet some spaniards who can speak with me in spanish more often, and maybe if all my dreams come true, i can hang out with christina more often too.