Sunny Tuesday

Apparently that autumn thing was just a quirk... Today the sun shone as if it were summer once again! The thermometer rose to 30°C!

Gosh, today was tiring! I had 4 hours of class in the morning and I - finally - had to go enroll in the courses I am taking. A process, which, all in all, took about one hour and a half... Of which over an hour was queueing! Ah, lovely traditional Spanish organization... A good thing was that while waiting in the line I met a nice Brazilian guy, who is also studying in Valencia for 6 months, after having studied two years in Paris. It's a small world after all!

After enrolling, I should finally have access to all the electronic services of the university and be able to check out books of the library. But I say SHOULD, because I tried to access the electronic blackboard this evening and nope! If you learn one thing in Spain, it's pacience.

In the afternoon I went to capoeira class. It seemed like a military workout! But it was very nice, and even though all my muscles are screaming with pain now, it's good to know that at least they're there!

After capoeira class I had yet another class, until 9pm... All of you who thought I was here on a prolonged vacation: wrong!

But I don't mind these long days, because I'm really enjoying the classes and having a lot of fun, meeting new people every day...


Every day as I walk to class I pass a little house with a scrap of farmland next to it, struggling to survive in an ever-growing city. It took me two weeks to even notice it, though I pass it every day! You hardly notice it on the picture too. It stands there so bravely between those big bully buildings! The part of the city where the university is is a very new part. About 15 years ago, this part was farmland. Hence the little house with its little scrap of farmland...