living and studying

After a few challenges and changes in my living situation, I've finally settled into a third flat. It's spacious, in a good location, and I like my flatmates. Also, my room has a ton of character- there's one wall that has a vintage wallpaper (some would call it ugly, some would call it vintage, tomato tomahto) and other walls that are painted blue, peach, and yellow. In the morning, I wake up to the retiree neighbors talking in the kitchen... at least it hasn't happened before 9am yet *knock on wood*.



Looks like the key to a castle, eh?


Also the bathroom is really quirky- there's handmade cutouts of sea creatures on the fixtures, and quotes written in sharpie on the walls.









And now some updates about school... the workload is definitely getting heavier. I have 1 exam on Monday, 1 quiz on Monday, another quiz on Tuesday, and a presentation to turn in on Tuesday. In every class there's also a project, which can be a group assignment or an individual simulation (for example, for Solar Energy we're designing a solar water heating installation).

Here's some photos of campus (the walkway leading up to the main library, and the shiny cactus sculpture that I like):




Also, thanks to some well-planned "cenas de máster" the people in my class have gotten to know one another a lot better. So far we've had 2 cenas and they've been really fun. Basically after class (around 8:30) we get drinks, then we go to a restaurant for dinner around 10 or 10:30, and then we go out after that. In the first cena, one guy made everyone stand up and give a toast (some people were kind of nervous, but in the end it didn't matter at all since we cheered for any and everything).

Here's us with our tapas and pitchers of cerveza and sangria (which by the way get refilled during the entire dinner):