22!! And it's all downhill from here!!

Or perhaps a better way of looking at it is "With Age Comes Wisdom" (sometimes, anyway :P). It is kind of strange though, you spend your whole childhood looking forward to your 18th, then 21st, then suddenly they're gone and you have no more significant birthdays. Oh well.

I had an awesome weekend though. Wednesday night I went with Carmen (from the ORI) to Inma's house (also from the ORI) and spent the night there. Inma lives about an hours drive away so we just came back to Ciudad Real with her in the morning. It was wonderful, to be in a house, with a family, (not that the student life is that bad but sometimes...) They even gave me a birthday present, a homemade, warm, fluffy scarf. Thankyou!!

Thursday I wanted to meet up with some friends and have a few quiet drinks in the main square. It was fun although not many people came, sort of reminiscent of the pancake party that didn't happen. I don't think I'll bother organising anything else. But we went back to a friend's place where some turkish people were making turkish food to share, then ended up going out to Botellon (essentially drinking in the street). It was a good night. Two Lithuanian girls got me a present too - an alarm clock! I'll never be late to arabic again! Seriously though, it's got a cat on it, and it's nice to have a clock again. I quite like the ticking sound, I find it calming. Thanks girls!

Friday was a huge party organised by the university for students from all four campuses (in different towns) to meet. There was a concert too with lots of different bands, which was pretty cool (especially when I got close enough to the stage to watch the bass players...), after we left we went to the nightclub district and ended up playing an italian card game in one of the bars. Best. Birthday. Party. Ever.

And last night, Saturday, I went out again. First to the flat of a few french students, then we had a few drinks in town and ended up at a salsa bar. I would like to learn one day I think, although I will stick with Swing for a bit.

So it was a long weekend and is now Sunday afternoon. I need to do some study so I shall do that now, before I get too tired, because it is guaranteed that I will crash tonight.