So what do you know, I’m sick again! I’d had vague symptoms going for the past couple of days, and yesterday when I was pretty sure I was sick, I see in the headlines of a metro newspaper that the flu is out in force in Madrid. I hope that it won’t hang on as long as the last cold did… you’d think my antibodies would be beefed up from their last battle.

So today is Thursday, the first day of classes for the Reunidas kids. I suppose now would be a good time to review the program I am in for the benefit of you Esteemed Readers.  So I have signed up with the Marquette en Madrid program, which carries a bunch of MU students (and a few Tulane and Fordham) into Madrid and enrolls them in the Universidad Complutense’s Reunidas program, which is an association of several schools that all bring foreign kids to Madrid to take classes in Spanish.  So all of my classes are in Spanish, but they are with other foreign (mostly American) students, which makes things a little easier on us.  I am also planning on sitting in on some full-fledged Complutense courses in Computer Engineering, which should prove interesting.

I spent most of today complaining to Katie about being sick and about how much the Internet connections here suck (oh I could go on and on about how much they suck… I probably will eventually) as we planned our trip this weekend to Salamanca.  It’s got the first university of Spain that’s still in operation today, making it sort of a college town with a long history.  It’ll be nice to get out of Madrid for a little while, after the break down of our break plans.

I’m thinking now about how conscious and controllable that the tone of writing is in a blog post.  I can be doing overall pretty well and end up complaining about some small thing here and it sounds like I’m having a terrible time in Madrid, or I can try and avoid complaining even when I am having a rough time.  I’m not exactly sure what that means, but I think it’s important to note.

So where am I at now?  Well, I’m really fine, but it’s been pretty tough.  The health issues give me a sort of blanket frustration level that makes it easier for me to be in a bad mood, but I really think that the physical, emotional, etc. are all related and are all still under the strain of this long long transition.  As a said though, I’m really doing fine.  Now that classes have started hopefully I can get into the swing of things.

Until next time.