What I'm Listening To: Vienna-Billy Joel
The title is exactly what it sounds like outside. This storm is ridiculous with all of the raging lightening and thunder. Finals are almost over for me and I am relieved to be almost over with another year. It's confusing when people ask me what my rank is in school. Technically I'll be a junior but credit-wise I'm a senior. That is the reason why I keep getting notifications in my student center from administration asking WHY AREN'T YOU GRADUATING? and a lot of times it allows me, or prevents me from getting into the classes that I want. People have been asking me about next year as well. "Where are you living next year?" and "What classes are you taking?" and "Are you going to continue your work with Prime Magazine?" are a lot of the questions that I've been getting. It's been frustrating and exciting to answer that I'll be in Spain and I don't know what I'll be doing next year or where I'll be living. I do know that I'll be going to La Tomatina on August 25th and I am both excited and scared for my life.
La Tomatina is the largest food fight in the world. Weapon of choice: tomatoes. Lots of them. Approximately 90,000 lbs to be precise. And they are thrown all over the little village of Bunol for about an hour until a whistle blows. It's absolutely insane and I'm going to be right in the middle of it. La Tomatina has been going on for years in Bunol, a village about 3 miles over from Valencia, where I'll be heading to at first. Now all need to do is book a plane ticket and find a good hostel. After the festival, I'm arriving in Madrid earlier than most of my study abroad companions from Madison to just take in the city and familiarize myself with Madrid. They'll come on the 31st (which is the same day as the orientation so they will be jet lagged out of their minds) but I plan on leaving Valencia on the 28 and arriving in Madrid the same day.
Also, my co-workers and I went to Sushi Fest at Takara Restaurant on State Street. I love sushi. It's amazing. Before, I didn't understand why people ate it and now I'm a borderline fanatic. I've managed to convert my dad, but the rest of my family doesn't understand my obsession. However, I do joke that I eat fake sushi because I will only eat a few things raw and they have to be in the maki rolls. Salmon, tuna (occasionally), eel, crab, shrimp. My favorite roll is the Philadelphia (I tend to gravitate toward rolls that have avocado and/or cream cheese in them) and after that the Hawaiian. Do you enjoy sushi? Why or why not and if so, which rolls are your favorite? If not, have you tried it and simply don't like it?
