Un día aburrida

(Madrileños enjoying their city)

Because of my cold, I haven't moved from my room all day, so I've been watching TV in Spanish, trying to improve my language comprehension.  The hardest part for me about Spanish is understanding when other people speak, so I figure keeping the TV on might help after a while.  A lot of the TV shows here are American, with Spanish dubbed over, and I watched Switch with the voices not following the mouths.  There is also a commercial for El Corte Ingles that has Habanera as background music (my senior year NYSSMA vocal solo). Each time it plays I'm tempted to whip out my opera, but I think that might alarm Julia a bit.  I've watched the news, the sports channel, Fama (a dance competition), and am currently on the Spanish Amazing Race.  It's been a pretty productive day.

Besides TV, I've read more of my book and an article for my Economics class about the rise and fall of the economic giants: the Netherlands, United Kingdom, and US.  Not too bad, actually.

Because of the lack of tissues in Julia's house, I've been using toilet paper for my runny nose.  I've gone through about three rolls, and have had to go riffling through closets for more.  I have had to start preserving as I think we are nearly out.

I showed all my Shutterfly pictures to Julia today, and we chatted for a while about them.  She was alarmed when she saw the picture of my keys, because now she thinks someone is going to break into the house, but I'm pretty sure she was only joking.  Here's a situation when that language comprehension is important. . .