Weekend no. 2 alone was interesting. The new has rubbed off of a few things and being on my own feels more alone now. Driving somewhere used to be a big accomplishment and now it´s same ól, shopping at H&M is losing its luster and I don´t get paid til the end of the month anyway.
I had practice Friday night, which was nice. I was on time and everything. The scrimmages were awesome and I felt like I had a great workout. But, no new friends, and I got a little depressed in the car on the way home.
I woke up late Saturday, quite sore, got up, ate, computed and went back to bed to watch A League of Their Own. A great film. I enjoyed it a little extra this time I think because I´m away from home. Baseball=America, so there´s that. Also, it´s a sister story and I have a sister who I´m away from. I had a new incite into Kit actually. Ususally, she annoys the hell out of me, but this time I empathized with her. It must be tough not to evert be noticed and everyone deserves to have a stadium of folks chanting their name once in a while. So I just wanted to say, I may not be a stadium, but I think about all my peeps back home all the time and am chanting your name in my heart when I do.
I took a little adventure to downtown Pamplona to try to run in Yamaguchi Park, but missed it and ended up at another one. It was a nice run, right after the rain, in and out of old stone walls, which I´ll have to look up in my Pamplona book to tell you what they are. But, I got home afterwards, was sorer and only had a movie with Annika to look forward to. I like hanging out with her, but movies I can´t understand don´t appeal to me.
I went though, and we ended up watching a fashion show the mall had instead. Sorta lame and I was home by 9. I had texted Esti, a friend of Alicia´s, earlier in the week about naging out this weekend. She didn´t reply, so I thought nothing was going on. She texted me right as I got home from the mall and said she´d be over in 5 minutes to pick me up. Arantsa was with her and Esti dropped us at a friend of Arantsa´s, Manu (pronounced like "nanoo, nanoo, from Mork), I think, and she had made dinner and we ate shrimp, we had to shell on our own, which I never had. So good! But ripping the heads off and having goo come out was gross. There was also bread and a mixed salad, which is a hardboiled egg, tuna, tomatoe, white asparagas and maybe some greens, with olive oil. Then she pulls out some Spanish fried chicken which was amazing! Crusted in a type of brown sauce, very garlicy and salty, it pulled right off the bone. Mmm!
From there, we went out to 3 differnt bars then a disco and I got home at 5 am! Crazy! I love it! I´m really tired and on my way to cancer from the second hand smoke, but gosh, the folks here in Pamplona know how to treat a girl. Just when I was bummed, I got a pick me up.
Today I went to Alexis´s sort of pre-catechism thing at church. He just read one line in front of the congregation. It was adorable and he did awesome. We went out to lunch afterwards and then I was off to the game in Vitoria. I didn´t get to see the pretty parts of the town, but we won! I still haven´t broken into chatting with the girls yet, because I´m not too confident in my spanish and don´t know how to break the ice. It was sorta weird going with them and then not playing. I think I´d cut of my pinkie toes right now if they healed in a week and I could play.
However, I do get to play in one game in November. I´m not sure why I get to, but I´m so excited! For one, I love basketball. Two, who I am will come through on the court and we won´t need so many words. It´s a good thing. I´ve got a dr.´s apt. on Tuesday, something I need to be able to practice. Maybe they´ll find enough Spanish blood in me so I can play all the time. Can you test for that? I think not.
Well, hopefully I´ll take a weekend trip sometime soon and have more pictures for everyone! Write more soon!
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