Aaanyway, my new term resolution is a once a week blog. Maybe. We'll see.
So I spent the last month or so at home and in Spain. Home was great, I needed a break, and I got to see a lot of people that I'd been missing, as well as get my fill of super smash brothers. Spain was pretty good too, especially Granada and Seville, but Madrid was kind of ruined by the "OH NOES HOW WILL WE GET BACK" complex that hit us about halfway through. If you hadn't heard, a big ol' volcano went off in Ireland, and is still spewing some ash, which absolutely shut down the air travel in northern Europe. The ryanair flight that we were planning on taking back was similarly shut down. With great luck and ingenuity we managed to make it back, though. We caught a bus from Madrid to Paris (17 hours+80 euros) and a bus from Paris to London(9 hours+50 euros) and even got back in time for our first lectures(6 hours of sleeping in my bed, I didn't go). Still waiting on my refund from Ryanair, it'll help lessen the impact of that bus ride, but it's still annoyingly expensive.
Either way, we're back safe and sound, and the rest of the stragglers are slowly trickling in, though my house is still missing a third of its residents. My major and minor tutorials both seem like they'll be interesting while not being toooo much work, so I think I'm looking forward to the rest of this term. I'm certainly looking forward to the traveling I want to do during it, but I still have yet to find someone to go to Morocco with me.
