YES!!!!!!

ATTENTION WORLD! I will be able to talk to my wonderful boyfriend tomorrow...It has been sixteen days too long since we have been able to talk!

I've got passion yes I do, I've got passion how bout' you?

Today is another beautiful Sabbath day. The birds are chirping and the sun is pleasantly burning the heads of bald men. It has been a great day so far. We got up this morning to the blaring sound of spanish hymns from a loud speaker and tromped down to breakfast. Church started promptly at ten o'clock and that's when I was there...what else would you expect:) Sabbath school is first and we all sat patiently anticipating the wise words of the speaker.

He stood at the podium and took a deep breath. He began to talk about Moses and then broke into his passionate speaking. He no doubt had practiced this speech for hours before he had given it; hair flopped wildly about his face as he threw one fist in the air and then another. His voice dipped down an octave and then exploded into a loud rapid fire of spanish words. He must have not built his stamina up enough for his speech because he decided to stop speaking after an hour. He was truly passionate about that thing that he was talking about. I personally enjoyed every moment of it and am anxious to hear what he has to say next week. Oh if only I had his passion, and his floppy hair...

I wish I was a Robot

So Spain is extremely awesome. I have loved this experience so far. The school is set up in the mountains and looks over the little city of Sagunto. We attend classes for four hours everyday, have a study period and then we go to a variety of activities. I have been doing Flamenco for one activity and some cooking classes. Flamenco is amazing! I got too left feet a you can probably call me grace:) Someone’s got to make the professionals look good!

We are surrounded by spanish and sometimes my brain feels like its going to explode. I have started to want to type in spanish to people or add in spanish words to my family and I have to remind myself, “Laura, that won’t make sense”...When I talk to people I have to interpret a sentence and whoever is talking to me has moved into an entirely different subject by the time I get what they had been trying to say...Yikes I’m slow... I feel like something should be invented where you can just stick a computer chip in your ear at night and when you wake up in the morning you know a completely new language. I think thats called artificial intelligence, I need some of that. I wish I was a robot...but still me, hmmm....

Wisdom of Age

The compensation of growing old...was simply this;

that the passions remain as strong as ever,

but one has gained-at last!- the power which adds the supreme flavor to existence,

-the power of taking hold of experience,

of turning it round,

slowly,

in the light.

-Virginia Woolf