Computer rage

Computers: it is a love-hate relationship, but lately hate has been the predominant emotion governing my aura around my laptop. I´ll be short, because if I go into details I´ll explode in another computer-hating-frenzy: it has more or less broken down. It won´t pick up internet. It won´t play any music. From time to time, it just gets stuck. Luckily, Word, Excel and Powerpoint are still working, so in theory I can do all my university work. But not having internet is very annoying. Right now I am writing from the university computer class where they let you have 2 hours of computer time per day. Should be enough to keep you posted on what´s happening around here.

I can´t write much right now though, because Simone, the Italian with whom I am preparing a presentation for class, will be arriving in a few minutes to make the finishing touches on our powerpoint presentation.

About that presentation, here´s another novelty that I´ll also be short about for fear of exploding in a spanish-organisation-hating-frenzy: a professor just changed the deadline of a paper that was normally due mid-december to THIS WEDNESSDAY! There´s a whole story of misunderstandings behind it, but anyway, the consecuence of it all was that I spent all weekend working on this paper+presentation, instead of doing the zillions of other things I had planned to do.

But let´s talk about happy stuff, because I don´t want to re-read my blog in the future and think: wow, I had a horrible time there! Or worse: I´m such a complaining person... :-p

Despite all the work I had this weekend, I did have have some fun by night. On Friday, I went to a party of a Brazilian guy I met a few weeks ago while queueing to enroll in university. I thought I´d only know him there, but it turns out that the world is really small after all, because a lot of people I met in the hostel during my first week in Valencia were there too! And these parties are an excellent way of meeting new people. I got to know another Brazilian named Elio, and a German girl who I actually recognized from class whose name I have forgotten now, shame shame. Then again, I had already had two whisky-colas before meeting her. (By the way, those were all the whisky-colas I had, Mom and Dad!)

On Saturday I went over to Cécile´s apartment around 22h30 to cook a meal together. Absoluty
Spanish eating hours! Her friends Karinn and Emely were also there, and Karinn is a fantastic cook! We had a delicious fish-with-vegetables oven dish and papaya for dessert! Then we watched two episodes of Sex and the City on dvd. Cécile, who is a another university in Valencia, can get all sorts of dvds in the university library for free! I definetely chose the wrong career. Should´ve been an engineer (you´re laughing now, aren´t you, Dad?).

On Sunday afternoon, after another 10 things had gone wrong in less that 15 minutes (I really won´t go into that now, you know, because of the imminent frenzies), I decided I needed to get some air to calm down and I took a walk to Ayora park. It´s a cute little park very close to my home, but I had never been there before! It´s a shame I can´t show you the pictures I made, as I am not working from my own computer... Then I started walking in the direction of the sea, which is were all the people who are starting to gain some sympathy for suiciders go. (For those who might worry, it´s not that bad yet. I can still go work as a bakery shop girl in my home town. I hope.) Anyway, I ended up in the America´s Cup Port. I had never been there before! In 2007 there will be a huge regatta in Valencia, and they are now building new docks for the international teams that will be competing against each other. There is this whole touristic infrastructure around the America´s Cup event! There´s an exposition hall with miniatures of the boats that have won the America´s Cup over the last two centuries, beautiful to see. There´s a restaurant that looks really fancy. And you can take boat tours in the port! For all those who are still coming to visit: I will definetely take you there to see the boats!

Yesterday evening I met Morgane in Café Soret for a fancy chocolate milk creation (which I thought I deserved after all the school work I have done this weekend!).

Allright, and that´s the news!