Feb 11th – Day of Filling in the Blanks

So today, I found out what happened with my friend Elliot. When Trevor walked him home, suddenly Elliot snapped and shoved Trevor, telling him he didn’t need his (blank-ing) help. Trevor got pissed off so he said, “Fine, walk yourself home!” Sometime in between the last bit of the walk he had to get to his host home, he got pick-pocketed and has no memory of how it happened. Thankfully his hand wasn’t broken and the swelling was gone. Although he had two scratch marks on his head, there were no other marks indicating any bad injuries. Poor Elliot. Now it seems that all our guy friends have a curse upon them of getting their wallets pick-pocketed. First Trevor, second Elliot, now it looks like Scott is up next (he’s also from Arizona). As much as I love my guy friends, I swear they make the dumbest decisions and have the most ridiculous things happen to them. But then again, guys have to make the dumb mistake or shenanigan in order to learn right? I just wish they could sometimes learn by us telling them…but I don’t think that will happen anytime soon. J today in my film class we watched a movie called ‘La Vaquilla’ which the title means the mother bull. The movie mainly talks about how and why the republicans lost the Civil War in Spain. Technically if you look at the resources and advantages they had, they should have won. However we know that this obviously didn’t happen as Franco, the leader of the franquista side, took over Spain for 14 years until his death. The movie our professor told us is probably the most well known movie in Spain and most of the people even today know and love the movie. And even though the theme sounds serious, the movie was really silly and funny. But there was a lot of symbolism towards Spain in the movie, so afterwards we had lots of questions as to what certain things meant. After class, I went to my host home to finally eat dinner and do my homework. Adrian greeted me excitedly and said something about showing me something upstairs that came today. But I didn’t quite get what he meant until Ana said that a package came in the mail today. For me?! Really? I ran upstairs to my room to find a Fed-Ex envelope on my bed. From the states! From James! I opened the envelope to find a card and present wrapped inside. Aww…wait, I can’t open it until Thursday since it’s my Valentine’s Day present. No! Dang…so I put the present on my desk and went to tell Ana what it was. She was excited too, and laughed when I told her I had to wait to open it…you better wait and not open it early!! I made a mini-pout because she was right and I knew I would have to be good and not open it. Poo.