6 1/2 weeks left!!!

I cannot believe I have been here in Spain for 2 months! Boy, time flies by! When I first got here, I thought that I was going to miserable, but now I feel like I can do anything, because I have lived so far away from home. I have learned so much about myself and what I want in life just from being here. I hope I am making my family proud too, especially my mother. She loves to brag about me! That's what I love about my Mommy, she is always proud of me. I cannot wait to eat my favorite foods again and I will appreciate everything in the US when I come home! I am also going to Munich, Germany and Oslo, Norway in the next few weeks. I am a bit nervous, because it is very cold in Norway and Munich compared to Murcia. I wish I could see the whole world, but I am learning more just by visiting two countries while studying here in Spain! Well anywho, I should probably go to sleep! Buenas Noches!

Change of Plans this weekend!

This past week has been a great week! The main reason things were so good was because we received our stipend money! Thank goodness for that money, because I was starting to run a little low. As a part of our celebration of receiving our money, we decided to take a last minute trip to Morocco. I have always wanted to go to Africa, and me and the girls planned a trip with the guys to Morocco. We were supposed to take a bus to Almeria, Spain, then take a ferry to Melilla, Morocco, then we had no idea what to do. We caught the bus to Almeria, but we missed our ferry by five minutes. That was a big bummer, but I did not let it phase me, because Almeria is on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Nothing wrong with a change of plans! I also truly believe that we were not meant to go to Morocco this weekend, because I thought about things later and it would have sucked to be on a ferry boat for 8 hours there and 8 hours back. That is literally 24 hours of traveling, including the bus rides! We spent the night in Almeria in this nice hostel on the strip of the beach. 5 of us decided to stay in Spain for the weekend and the others decided to take another ferry ride to Morocco the next morning. We spent all afternoon on the beach, being lazy and simply relaxing. Almeria was a life saver, but it also was an ugly city. The city was so dead and I was sick of seeing old women with no bathing suit top! We checked the bus schedule and saw that there was a bus at 6:30 pm to this beautiful city named Mojacar. We knew about Mojacar, because we passed through it on the way to Almeria and it was beautiful. It had the beach and beautiful architecture as well, which is always a plus! I cannot believe I did this, but we arrived in a small village on a mountain and had no idea where we were staying. We knew the beach was at the bottom of the hill, so we headed down with our dorky bookbags and "beach" towels. We finally saw the beach and continued walking for awhile in the dark. The first hotel we saw, we stopped. Unfortunately the hotel had no vacancies, but the receptionist was so nice and allowed us to use the wireless internet so that we could find someplace to live for the next few days. We were a bit tired and discouraged, but we kept on walking until we saw this man that noticed we were confused. He walked us to find a hostel and we ended up finding the best place we could have possibly gone to. We found the Flamenco Hostel! They were so nice to us and gave us a great room for only 12 Euro per person each day. We only payed 24 Euro each for two nights, how awesome! That night we also met some friends, one who is the son of the hostel owners and one who is one of the waiters in this hostel restaurant. They took us out later that night to a bar and drove us in shifts since there were 5 of us. They even bought us drinks at the bar! We stayed out until about 3 am and after that good time, I realized we came to the right city for the weekend.

....to be continued!

Spain so far!

Okay, so I've been horrible with blogging so far since I've been in Spain, but I will try my best to do better. It will benefit me more than anyone else to write down all that happens so that I will always be able to remember the good and bad times I have had so far. I have officially come to the conclusion that Spanish girls do not like us and never will. We have tried to make nice with Spanish girls, but it doesn't work and I am very content with my new friends from all over Europe. I have made friends from England, Germany, Poland, Italy, Latvia, and some other places I can't think of at the moment. I absolutely love the beautiful city of Murcia! Everytime I visit another city in Spain, it makes me appreciate the city that is my temporary home. I am also surprised with how easy this transition has been with my hair. At times I get frustrated and want to chop off all of my hair, but I am trying to master patience. I love having a new look in Spain and I cannot wait to get home and get some real hair products. I am so sick of using sunflower oil and mousse in my hair. I have also been eating a lot healthier here and realize that natural foods taste even better to me. I love the fruit here, especially the bananas! I think that the bananas must be sweeter here than in the States! I also love the all natural fruit juices, because they aren't so fattening. I also have fallen in love with almonds! I had no idea the health benefits of them until I started to eat them and I looked up health facts on them. They are tasty and very good for hair and skin. I have two more months of adapting to a new culture, hopefully these next few weeks will go by fast, because I am ready to go home and see my family. Anywho, I will describe my weekend vacation or holiday in the next post.

Natural Hair!

Hmm so I have decided to take the journey to natural hair. I've been thinking about this process for a few years now, but I thought this was the perfect time to try something new since I am going to Spain for a few months. I'm really excited about this journey and in fact, I wish I could cut all of this relaxer out of my head now, but i would only have half an inch of hair. I'm not that confident to do something as drastic lol. I just got a hair cut though soo I can go through this process. I am also twisting my hair once a week while it's wet. I'm going to make this post brief and say that I feel liberated not combing, flat ironing or brushing my hair! I hope more black women decide to go through this process too!

Ehhh...nothing else I can say (from Lady Gaga)

Okay, so officially I have two months left until I leave to study abroad in Murcia City, Spain. Holy crap! It's coming so soon! I'm really excited though!

Things have been crazy lately. Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Ed McMahon, and Billy Mays have died within days of each other. Of course, MJ's death is the death that is the most shocking and news of his death shut down Google and other internet search engines. Bing became the thing to use that day. 9/11 did not even do this, neither did the election of Barack Obama. I did not realize how internationally popular he was. MJ's fans are also starting to commit suicide. I know Michael wouldn't have wanted this Anywho, RIP all of these people mentioned.

I also saw a good horror movie this week with Ravelle. We're both horror movie junkies! We saw this movie called Otis. This movie is a bit off, if you know what I mean. It's not really a horror movie, but it's pretty f*cked up. The title character Otis is somewhat of a loser; he works as a pizza delivery guy and obsesses over young and pretty teenage girls. He kidnaps one of his customer's daughters and makes her role play with him. Nothing is sexual, but he still has this girl leg chained. The girl escapes and she tells her parents where she was held captive, but her parents don't go to the police. They instead go to the kidnappers house with their teenage son with intentions of killing the creep in a torturous manner. Too bad they kill the wrong man. They end up killing his brother. This movie was funny too! It's a good one! Go see it!

UPDATE!!!! 7/2/09--Club 935 and other guilty parties!

Everyone wonders why I don't go to black clubs. Hmm...I can give you a million reasons, but I will only discuss a few. My boyfriend tried to get into Club 935 tonight, but was denied entry because of his shoes. What kind of shoes were he wearing?--> Sperry's!!! That's absolutely stupid. The bouncers of the club were allowing dudes entry into the club with Timbs (Timberland boots) on. The manager of Club 935 tried to reason with my boyfriend and ask him to pay a $300 fee to enter the club. He then tried lower the price to $100. The original price of admission is $20, yet the fee was hiked up to $300 because of some shoes? It seems like they have some problems with management. I believe this is wrong and shouldn't be allowed. This cannot be legal either. The club is in the hood too. Why are people so into this place? If I go out, I want to go to some place nice and in a nice area. I will continue to boycott this club! :)

I also don't like these parties at Club Ice or Buckwild, etc., because the promoters like to hold the lines so that it looks like the club is packed, when only 20 people are inside dancing. That's a stupid business move. They also like to take pictures of the line outside. Wouldn't it be more beneficial to take pictures inside with the club packed? Hmmm. Is partying that serious that you have to wait in a packed line and pay ridiculous cover fees? If so, then maybe you need to re-evaluate your life!

***Correction...my boyfriend was wearing shoes that were sneakers.

Random Topics!

Okay, so I lied about not seeing Drag Me To Hell again. lol. I saw it yesterday again and I wasn't as scared as I was before. I still don't like demons, but I was able to sit through the movie. Well actually I still had to cover my eyes for certain scenes.

Moving on.....

One of my sorority sisters had been telling me about this book called Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities by Alexandra Robbins. I became interested in this book, because I love hearing about other sororities and fraternities. I always want to know what happens at other schools and how different some chapters are. This author is very brave for writing a book like this, because so many Greeks are not excited about this book. I don't quite know how I feel now about a GDI (non Greek) writing a book about something that they have never experienced before. A lot of people don't want to read this book, because of her inexperience with this college aspect. I don't want to automatically judge her. I just want to read what she has to say. So far I'm on page 80. Already, she's covered a lot of the stereotypes in a sorority like all of the girls are rich and anorexic. She has even talked about the serious talk of rape within the Greek community. As a member of a sorority, I personally have never experienced what Robbins is describing, but I look forward to learning more about other chapters and sororities.