Day 15

Thursday consisted of figuring out how to work the postal system, homework, and magic shows. After Spanish class I attempted to do more of my online ECON because the quizzes for chapter 1 "expire" on Sunday night. I had to download a free trial of the book...I should have gotten the book, so I could work on the study guides. Nothing on the study guides are on his power points which is stupid.

Glass ceiling in Post Office

Then I got Dara to come to the post office with me and we met Brittnay and Lia along the way. So we all trekked through the Valencian Post Office utterly confused how everything was supposed to work. We figured out that there are machines, right when you walk through the doors, where you choose if you're there to receive a package, send a parcel, need information and something else. You have to choose the one you're there for and it gives you a receipt with a number and a letter. There were about 8 people working and numbers like H088 and G378 flashed on the screens above the person working. You have to watch very carefully or they might skip over you. Luckily, I got a little old lady who was singing when we got up to her and all I had to do was point and say something along the lines of, "uno sellos, Estados Unidos." She took what I had told me "uno euro," I paid her and that was that. 

I went back to the study center library to work on more of my homework after Dara and I got lunch then I decided that I needed a break and went for a walk. I was trying to get the majority of my homework done that night because we had plans later that evening, Friday, and Saturday. I got most done before we took taxis to the City of Arts and Sciences where someone was putting on a magic show. It was very creepy and in the last hour it was all "hypnoses" and this guy just kept throwing these people around like rag dolls, and it just made me uncomfortable. It went from 10:15pm to 12:15am and, of course, midnight is too early for the club. 

Sitting in what I think look like giant urinals in
front of the Art and Science Center

Me and Dara at the show

They went out and found food and we made it to the club around 1, had to wait in a line until 1:30 and Jacqueline and I decided at 2 we would be done. This club is called Mya and it was much better than the last one we went to, however, it was just too much for one night. I was half asleep by the time intermission at the magic show came around, because it's really difficult to be interested in something when you have no idea what he is saying. Once it hit 2 we were headed out, 4 of us ended leaving and we got back to the apartments around 2:30am, before the Spaniards had even begun to think about going out for the night.

There was this water sports activity planned for Friday that I decided not to attend. FSU was taking 2 buses filled with about 50 people each at 10 in the morning. I needed a break from people and activities and whatnot. I woke up at 6am to Skype with Jake, after falling asleep only after 3am, then I went back to sleep until 11:30 and I feel much better. 

Saturday we're taking an 8am bus somewhere (that I can't disclose yet in case Jacqueline somehow finds this) and it's a surprise for Jacqueline's 18th birthday. In my "group" of 5, 3 of us have September birthdays. Oooh! And Lia's roommate, Aleesia shares a birthday with me...but she's a baby, she'll only be 18.