Summer's Here!

    

Raindrops on the window pane

I'm getting settled into the life of a college student, or at least my version of college life (from grocery shopping and preparing my own food to snoozing my alarm as much as feasibly possible). It's nice to also feel my language skills getting settled back in. Some of the vocabulary of different subjects is still going over my head, like electrophysics and period specific history jargon to some extent, but I am finding my classes very interesting and feel like I'm already learning a lot.

Interestingly enough the classroom environment almost strikes me as being similar to my experience with the middle school system in the US. The students all seem exceptionally bright and even very intellectual in what they talk about but there are a lot of loud conversations going on between students sitting on desks and sometimes a lot of static noise from conversations going on throughout the lectures. My classes are all somewhat different in this regard but as a generalization it has a "middle school" quality difficult to precisely describe. It's interesting to get this perspective on a system that strikes me as being in some ways very similar to my background and in some ways distinctly different.

For the last week or so the temperatures have been hanging around the sixties and nearly into the seventies (twenties in Celsius), sometimes dropping near freezing at night. Looking at the online forecast there are nothing but golden yellow suns for the next week straight and I can't help feeling a little bit like it's already summer.

   

Birds out my window

I've also been getting in touch with some people and thinking about my travel plans for this summer. It's a little preliminary I know but I'm just stoked on life and it's nice to think about seeing so many new things and seeing people again under different circumstances. At the moment one idea that has popped into my head is to fly or train or bus to Barcelona and then make my way west and south, maybe stopping along the way to see an exchange student friend of mine, ending up in Morocco if time permits.

Thanks for reading!

Tully