Passaig de Sant Joan. Yay Christmas time!!!
Everything feels just a little off. My internal clock is still in the USA. Internally, Im expecting thanksgiving dinner, but obviously, that is not a thing here. This time of year, I will be planning a week-long vacation (more like a work-cation) to get ready for my finals. Here, everything is rushed together without a break. oh how I need a break. I believe that I successfully went though the various stages of abroad emotions... The honeymoon phase; everything is perfect. The get used to everything phase. The everything annoys me phase (that was a rough couple of weeks). I think now I am so busy with classes that I'm not worried about anything else.
I think what makes this time harder for me is the fact that I am not going home for Christmas. I'm dreading the last two weeks when I hear, "I cant wait to go home" and "when I get home...". I just have to remember that my time here is so precious. And that I am so, incredibly lucky to be spending time in Europe and with cousins in Germany.
To get into the holiday, some of my classmates family invited us over for thanksgiving potluck. i plan on bringing my moms delicious sweet potato pie. i have helped her make it dozens of times...hopefully it will be a good amateur version. BUT ; none the less, its Christmas time!! Everyone is getting ready for Christmas, which is almost a month away. I think what is my true saving grace in all my emotional-ness, is my host family. They are so loving and caring, I feel a little wrong being sad (or whatever it is Im feeling). They take such good care of me.
bad pic. but ice skating in Plaza Cataluyna
