The end of school

So, school's coming to an end pretty quickly here. While technically classes continue until the very last day of May, most of my classes are ending before that.

Next week is pretty much the last week of class for me. My programming class (the theory part) is done after Wednesday's class, and then there is nothing until the exam on June 9th. The practical part has one class next Thursday, the final program is due on Friday, and then the exam is during class time the following week. We are doing two practice exams for my Internationalization Strategies class during class time next week, and then nothing until the exam on June 2nd. Same idea for the International Marketing class, with the exam on June 13th. My literature class still has class next week and the final paper is due on Friday. No class the next week except the practical exam is on May 30th, and the theoretical exam is on June 12th.

And then I'm done!

I just finished writing the program for programming class this morning. So that's exciting cuz it means I have almost the entire week to test and debug it! Yay!

My roommate is leaving to go back home to the States tomorrow. Sad... But there are two other American girls living here now also. They are just here for the month of May, but at least I'll have somebody to hang out with. And then apparently another girl is coming in the beginning of June for a month, and two Canadian girls are coming sometime in the first week of June, also for a month. My madre definitely always seems to have a full house. She told me that I was her 81st student ever! So she's been doing this a while.

My friend Jenna (roommate from my three weeks in Sevilla) is going to come down to visit for about a week during the last week I'm here. That's gonna be pretty cool cuz she was supposed to be living here and going to school here in Alicante with me, but at the last minute decided she wanted to go to Pamplona instead. Something about living in the mountains or something... But, it's cool that she's gonna come visit!

I bought another new pair of shoes the other day. They are black stilettos! They are actually pretty comfortable. They're way cute and they can be dressed up for work or dressed down for just wearing with some jeans. I'm pretty excited! Even more excited because I realized recently that I can actually walk in them without breaking my ankles! Hurray!

I've started thinking about packing for going home (mostly because Elise spent the past week packing up all of her stuff and "gifting" me with everything she didn't want to pack). In the past week I have acquired sunscreen, shampoo, packs of travel tissue, aloe lotion, etc. all because Elise doesn't want to pack them and take them home with her. So I guess I'll use them while I'm here. But since my madre seems to always have students, I'll just leave any toiletry type items I don't want to pack with her for the next students she has.

Also, I apparently managed to walk past this every day for five months so far without noticing, but the other day as I was walking home I saw a large container on the sidewalk next to the dumpster and recycling bins that says "Recogida de Ropa". That translates to "Clothing collection", which made me think it was something like Goodwill at home. So I asked my madre and it turns out I was right. So, since I've been shopping and bought new clothes, I'm going to donate some of my old ones that I've replaced in the hopes that I can make it back home in just two suitcases. We'll see though, I've bought a lot of stuff!

The weather has been cloudy and slightly rainy for about a week or two now, which is kind of lame. It's warm out still, usually, but the sun is only out about half the time. Definitely not beach weather, which is sad. It got really hot this morning and my madre said that this is what happens when summer comes (the weather gets unbearably hot), but about an hour later it started raining. So maybe summer is not quite here yet. Hopefully soon though, cuz after next week I'm mostly just sitting around studying and packing, one of which I can do on the beach!