For the annual environmental health awareness raising event, Agua-Viva, my sailing school helped today and yesterday with picking up garbage out of the ocean. It was the big kick off day to this half- month fair that takes place with concerts and volunteer community service. We got our photo taken and will probably show up on the news. Also i have another tee shirt with spanish writing, which for me is pretty exciting : ). We cleaned up quite a bit but the award definitely goes to the scuba divers, who found a bunch of shit in the depths of the marina: old motor batteries, metal cages, tattered nets, etc, although they do have a bit of an advantage. At least we got to go out in the new kayaks today.
Last night I went out to the discos with friends from school. I have definitely found the group with whom i best associate, the ones that are most like my friends back home, only they are from other nationalities (ironically, none of them spanish). I went to see the new Indiana Jones the other night; nothing like the originals, but surprisingly good. Cheepo, one of my Moroccan friends left for good last Wednesday, so we had a little saying goodbye dinner for him.
School is finished, we were done wednesday. It was the most anti.climactic ´end of´ event of my life, and I am glad to be done, except for that now i am afraid of getting bored. I will look for a job soon. Wednesday I am leaving to spend 12 days in Valencia with a friend from the exchange. I will be there from the 4th through the 17th. It should be good, we have some pretty cool things planned. I completed my third and best oil painting the other day: a blue and white close-up of an attractive man´´s face that i got from a perfume advertisement. It is definitely my pride of paintings.
In so many ways I want to go home, not that I am unhappy here but sometimes I just feel like I dont belong or that I am wasting my time, though I am positive that this year has been anything but a waste of time and that I wouldn’t change it for anything. I know that If i got to decide between staying and going earlier, I would stay; I want to stick it out until the end. Im still not quite finished. I feel confident that I have conquered my Spanish, but there are still a few other personal things that I want to accomplish while I am here.
Also another breaking peice of news: I think i finally know what it is i am going to do wtih my life, or that i have finally decided to try for what i have always wanted to do with my life: i am going to be an actress.
