Good morning everyone, it's morning because I woke up not too long ago (I was out until 3:30). This week has been pretty good...mostly all that's been happening is school and planning. This coming weekend I'm going to go to Toledo for a day with some friends from school, so we're trying to get that all figured out. Also, some of my new friends from Stevens Point invited me to go to Lisbon, Portugal with them in March for 3 days, so we are trying to figure out transportation and lodging. It looks like we are going to have to take a train from Valladolid to Madrid super late Thursday night, and then a plane in Madrid at 6 in the morning to Lisbon. I think we've found the cheapest way to get there, now it's just the lodging and the attractions. Oh, I finally got my movil (cell phone)! It only took me three tries, but I've finally got it now, and I'm going to put a picture of it up on here.

Last night we had intercambios at the school, where Americans and Spaniards sign up and get together. It's kinda set up like speed-dating (at least what I think speed-dating looks like), but since there were more Americans, some of us doubled up so it was two of us for every Spaniard. It was neat to talk with actually Spaniards, but all of them I talked with were quite a bit older, so I didn't exchange my number with any of them. However, after that the other roomful of people came over to eat snacks. As I was standing there by myself by the snack table these two girls came up to me and started talking with me. We actually ended up talking for quite awhile (we were the last students there), and all of my friends ended up leaving, which was a problem, because I was going to go to McDonalds with them, and I had no idea where it was. So instead I ended up walking with Isolda and Medium to the Plaza Mayor, where they went to catch a bus, and I trying calling a bunch of people before I finally got a hold of someone. I'm probably going to get together with them sometime this week, and I'm looking forward to having a chance to practice my Spanish with actual Spaniards. I ended up going to a few clubs with friends from Stevens Point, and those were pretty interesting. I ended up having to pretend to be the boyfriend of one of them because there were a couple of creepy guys at Sotabanco (one of the clubs). Today I'm going to try to go shopping for some t-shirts, possibly with Erin, and I'm going to go walking with some friends later on as well, I think in the Campo Grande. I'm really excited as it warms up (high of 43 today) and dries out to spend more time in the Campo Grande, it's really a cool place. That being said, I probably should go do something productive (like homework) before I go hang out with people.