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I´m in an internet café right now, where it is again easy to do fun little squiggles above various letters.  I´m currently waiting for Esther to get off of work, but in the meantime, I thought I´d update this again (who would have thought?).

South Spain is fantastic.  I spent a week in North Carolina this summer, and this beats that hands down.  It´s a lot like the old town in Tallinn, Estonia, but without the cold and with a lot more humidity and beach.  Surprise surprise.

I wouldn´t have expected to get on the ´net more than once or twice, but I did tell myself I´d say something on Sunday.  It´s all right, though, because now I get to get a little bit more caught up with things, as well as beg someone to please give me money to buy my school books (please?  I´m broke).

I also just finished the big book I´d brought along to read, which was The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco.  Fourteenth century church politics and murder - fantastic!  I enjoyed it.  Now on to Slaughterhouse-Five for the train tomorrow.

I´m going to go enjoy the sun, sea, and castle of Tossa de Mar.

–Bov

I am currently sitting in a bus station in Girona, Spain, waiting for my bus to get here.

I am on my small side trip to visit my friend Esther right now, which involved getting up at 5 AM when we´d gone to sleep less than 4 hours before (college kids up talking about stuff?  Surely not).  After making my way from our hotel to the train station to the next train station to this bus station, I looked at my itinerary.  The bus I need to catch leaves at 7 PM.  I, however, had written 5 PM.  After a small amount of panic, I checked and was relieved.  Disaster averted.

Trains in Europe are so much better than the trains in America.  For one thing, they´re actually on time (a novel concept).  For another, they´re much more sensibly laid out.  And finally, even for someone who only speaks enough French to get by on a good day, enough Spanish to say that I don´t speak the language, and a small smattering of German, the trains are really easy to navigate.  So much better than American trains.

I have to run, but I still want to play with this keyboard.  It´s got so many fun characters on it, like ç or ¿ or º or ª.  Far too much fun.

–El Bov