So I had a bit of a rough week/weekend. Thursday after classes I wasn´t feeling well so I went home and slept for a couple hours. When I woke up I felt really sick and unfortunately that turned out to be a terrible stomach bug. I was getting sick every five minutes for 2 hours and that´s when I got a bit concerned because I could tell I was extremely dehydrated. My señora took very good care of me though and did take me to a clinic nearby. I had to get an I.V. of Zofran and a liter of liquid to rehydrate. It was hell. But I´m lucky Elena was there to take care of me! And I´m feeling so much better now. It really made me miss home though because it was scary and I didn´t have anyone I was really comfortable with, Elena wasn´t even allowed in the room when the doctors were either asking me questions or putting the I.V. in. It was tough because I could barely talk and I had to speak Spanish! I couldn´t even hold my own head up. So I obviously really wanted to be home, at least it´s all over now!

The other thing making me a bit homesick right now is that it´s Thanksgiving week. I love Thanksgiving and that it´s a holiday all about eating and family, my cousins from Maine are coming down to Connecticut this year and I´m going to miss them :( I´m hoping to be able to video Skype with my family at some point. And they are holding a Thanksgiving dinner for our program here with all the traditional foods like turkey, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, apple and pumpkin pie of course. It´ll be nice to be with other Americans who are also missing home, but I really wish I could be there for the holiday. At least I´ll be home for Christmas!

I only have three weekends left here, only two in Barcelona! Ah the countdown continues. I plan on enjoying every last second I have here, but I am really looking forward to coming home. Mostly I just want my work for the semester to be done! Granted I know I´ve had a pretty easy time here being abroad as far as workload goes. But the downfall is that all the work that really counts is at the end. So I have two papers, a presentation, and 3 finals to prepare for all within the next couple weeks. I´m pretty confident with 3 out of my 4 classes, I´m doing well in those. I´m struggling a bit with Intro to the European Union though and need to focus on that paper and final. Anyone want to write a paper about the collapse of the Berlin wall and how it affected the European Union because of the subsequent fall of socialism for me? Oh and then while you´re at it just look up all the committees of the EU and their policies :)

My friend Chris from Boston is here visiting this week! It´s so good to see a familiar face and it´s made me even more excited to see the rest of my friends from home. I can´t wait to reunite with everyone! I know it´s only been a few months, but I feel like I´ve been gone for ages. I think coming back might be a bit of a shock, especially with the weather I´ve been hearing about. It´s still pretty mild here, this week is the coldest it´s been so far and it´s still in the 50s and sunny during the day. Then on top of that I need to start making money as soon as possible! I miss making money, I´ve never been one to like just spending and not having an income. Although I guess who would like that unless you have a bottomless savings account. I think I should have some money left over to hopefully at least get me through the first month of groceries. And real classes...dun dun dun.

Oh! I almost forgot, I got to go to an FC Barça game last night with Hannah! It was such an awesome experience. We were sitting literally four rows back from the field in a stadium that holds almost 100,000 people. The atmosphere was amazing and literally buzzing with energy, I´ve never heard refs take so much crap and not say anything, they must be used to it ha. I felt like any little thing called against Barça warranted a flood of insults from the fans. And on the other end, I can´t imagine what the players must feel when 100,000 people are chanting Barça, must be pretty intense. I´m not even a big fan of soccer, but I just love sporting events and the energy that comes along with being at a game. I´m so happy that we got to see that and I´ll post pictures from the game sometime soon.

I guess that about sums up this week. I´ll try and keep updating about my last few weeks here!