Today I posted two blogs that I wrote on my laptop a bit earlier on the trip (September 26th and October 5th, if you want to go back and read them). The October 5th is notable for just how homesick and culture-shocked I was when I wrote it. It's nice to look back and see just how much things have improved in less than three weeks. It's crazy for me to think that I've been here for a month now. It doesn't seem like a month. I'm glad that everyone was right, homesickness does disappate after a while, and I'm also glad I didn't make a big deal of it even when I was pretty miserable. It let's me know I am growing up. Maybe I will even be an adult some day.

On Tuesday I was walking home from school and it was pouring down buckets of rain. So I was already wet. Then, a car drove into a puddle right as I was walking by and sent up a gigantic wave that completely drenched. Literally, I got soaked. I had to wring the water out of my clothes. And it was nasty Santander road water, and now I probably have some disease from it.


I'm having fun, but at times I get a little sad about what I am missing out on back home. Fall term is my favorite term at OSU, and I've only gotten to spend two of them there, as the first was wasted at Pretty Lame University as I like to call it. There are so many great things about Corvallis in the fall, and if I take time to think about it I really get a sense of what I'm missing out on- the fall polo season, football season, Halloween, fall and all the seasonal changes that I love...etc, etc. At times it's hard to think that I won't have another fall term there (if everything goes as planned with my education, la-di-da), and it makes me not appreciate being here so much. Oh well...nothing to do but suck it up I guess.