CHRISTMAS EVE/ DAY!!!

I passed the test, whatever it was.  After three hours of staying by my bags, not going to the bathroom, trying to conserve computer power, and literally holding my eyes open with my fingers a hotel man asked me if I was ready to go to my room. "THANK YOU! I'm so excited! Thank you! I'm so tired! Thank you! You are my best friend! Thank you! Oviedo is beautiful! Thank you!" The wait did help me get on track with my sleeping though.  I took my meds, got into my nice queen size bed, watched some tv (college students dressed like flinstones in a kitchen?) and fell asleep at 8.  My room was my first Christmas present

I lay in my bed half-listening for my friends, like a the kid I wasn't, listening for Santa.  I woke up at 12:30 to my friend Erica's voice! I opened my door and three of the friends I left at Chili's were there! They weren't so lucky with their delays.  Their delay in Barcelona caused them to arrive past 11, so the buses had stopped working.  They took a taxi here, we talked and decided to have breakfast today (with computers).  I went back to bed.  I needed to read first because I had woken up a bit while talking to them, yes I am reading Eat, Pray, Love,  don't mock.  I read and just as I was about to fall asleep I heard more English and the last of the Chili's eaters +1 were here!

We are all up and eating now (after starting the fire alarm with an adapter... oops) and are planning on walking around Oviedo soon!  I need to find a Chinos store (cheap chinese product store... the cashiers will soon know me by name) and I'd like to stalk my apartment and main university building also today.  I just learned that I missed Spanish Office on tv! And on a happier note- that a student who returned this semester is going to give us a tour at 11 tonight!

I cheated yesterday with getting on facebook on speaking English, it was my first day and I was tired.  I am not going to anymore I swear! I get e-mailed when someone leaves me a message or tags me in a photo, but I'll only be checking the e-mail and not the book itself.  Today has become Spanglish with my friends- we usually start in Spanish and once one person responds in English it switches over.  Soon it will be all Spanish I swear.

Adios por ahora!

P.S.  Everyone needs to stop wasting gas driving so we can keep flying! Am I right? Am I right? Yes, yes I am.