Confessions of A Working Girl

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So today we visited el escorial. It’s a place where monks lived, or something, and was a summer home to some king. But what was reallly awesome was their library! I wish we had been able to spend more time there. They had thousands of books, and they were really old. Most of them were hand written. The oldest book they had in the library was 1500 years old!!!! It was awesome!!!!! All of the books had gold dust on the edge of the pages, and all of the books were turned ’round so th...

I don’ remember where I left off,and don’t feel like looking it up,so I will start after we got to the hotel after the airport. I had a room on the sixth floor and was told that my roommate would arrive with the second group of people. There was only one bed. >.< Anyway,I could not figure out how to turn on the lights. No matter how many times I pressed the light switches, they would not go on.. So I read by the windiw for a little while,then sat down on the bed for “j...

so…we arrive at the airport a little over two hours early and it was a good thing we did since the line for security was like a mile long…well..almost… anyway, once through security there were two hours to kill before the plane ride. Luckily I was able to meet up with Eve, a girl that I had emailed before who was going to be on the same flight as me. I was so glad to have someone to navigate the airport with once we got to Madrid! The actual plane ride wasn’ as bad a...

I know I’m not alone in this…why does schooling have to be so freaking expensive? I know, I know…this is something that I should have realized long ago, especially with the fact that I will be a Junior in college this coming year… But it only just hit me.

I mean, what better way to make me realize just how much money this was when I heard my parents talking (technically, I think they were talking to me) about that if anything happened to me while I was abroad t...

I’m sort of nervous a the moment…I have less than two weeks to get the last bit of paperwork in to the program…and it’s only like a month before I actually leave!!! Wow…

Today in the mail, I got the handbook for the study abroad in Spain! It was on a 2gb usb…the program even suggests that the usb can be used to store pictures from during the study abroad program.

Anyway, I got that, and I was looking at the calendar, and suddenly I was struck by nervousness. In just a little over a month and a half, I will be the furthest away from home that I’ve ever been for the longest amount of time. And there’s so much stuff that I need to do...

First, a random note: My friend Paige has been reading this, and she says that she’d prefer to be referred to as ‘Sugar’. I don’t know if I’ll remember to do that, but if I do, it will at least be understood that ‘Sugar’ and ‘Paige’ are one and the same.

Anyway, confession five begins with a warning. All those signs that are in store parking lots that say ‘customer parking only’? They mean it. They really do. I’...

I’m still mad at myself, but if I don’t write this now, then I’ll probably forget to…A few weeks ago, I got my first speeding ticket. I was so embarrassed and upset! I suppose I deserved it though, since I was going 68 miles per hour in a 50 mile per hour zone…Ever since then, I have been paying extra close attention to how fast I’m driving on any particular road.

I meant to write this on Wednesday, but I had a project due that night, and so got way busy finishing writing it…

Anyway, I bought a chocolate bar that was 85% cocoa. I’ve always read that chocolate with more cocoa in it–e.g. dark chocolate– is better for you.  But I didn’t expect it to be bitter. I took a bite and was immediately wide eyed. “This,” I thought “is chocolate?!”For the most part, the taste was a little foreign, t...