Home stretch

That's right, only a couple more weeks and I will be back in the States. I'm super excited to be home, but man there are a lot of things I'm gonna miss. For example, this weekend we hopped on a train, and an hour and a half later we were at one of the most beautiful beaches in the world...not bad. About 14 or 15 of us went this Saturday, as a break from studying and to have some fun. We woke up early and caught an 8:30am train, getting us into vigo at around 10. It was a super nice day, the weather has been incredible lately, so we picked up a map and headed out to explore. We headed down the main road, partially just to see it and partially because some of the girls wanted to locate the H&M. We then made our way to a grocery store, where we stocked up on booze and food for lunch, before we made the final trek to the ferries. We purchased tickets that would get us to the Islands, and after a bit of a wait boarded our ferry for the 20-minute ride. The islands were absolutely incredible! As it was still pretty early, the beach wasn't too crowded, so we walked a little while and found ourselves a spot, everyone immediately stripping down to there suits to get some tanning going, and burying the beer and other beverages in the sand by the water to cool. We then spent the next 6 hours or so laying around in the sun, with occasional spurts of activity, namely recovering the beer as it was nearly swept out to sea. We even went swimming, despite the cold water; it was like the Caribbean, beautiful/fine white sand, crystal clear water...I was in heaven. When our six hours of paradise were up, we headed over to wait for our ferry, grabbing some icecream while we waited. When we got back to the mainland, we went on a search for a couple Mexican restaurants we had looked up online (everyone is craving Mexican food right now), only to find that they had both shut down...tragic. Instead, we piled into a Hamburger place, and caught the beginning of the Barcelona-Madrid game before we had to catch our train, comparing the various sun burns we had obtained on the way. We got home at around 10:30 and went our separate ways...Such a great day. Laura and I couldn't believe our luck-two weekends in a row including beautiful trips to the beach! The rest of the weekend was pretty uneventful, consisting of sleeping and attempts to get some work done. Tomorrow I have a big paper and presentation due, which I can't wait to be done with. A couple nights ago Laura, Florette, Guy Sam and I learned this card game called Bid Whist that Laura used to play in high school. It's actually really popular among African Americans, and it's a really fun game. So the past few nights we've been hanging out at Guy Sam and Florette's place (she moved in there for the last month, as she was sick of living so far away from everyone, plus her two spanish roommates turned out to be very bitchy). Other than that I'm just doing work, next week is exam week so I need to be preparing for that. Wish me luck!