by Katie Reed
Universidad de Navarra
Since being back from Ireland time I going by quick. Amanda and I
decided to do something every single day so that we stay busy and time
goes by even faster. On Tuesday we set out to go get our ears pierced!
We found a pharmacy in Plaza del Castillo and I got both of mine
pierced again right above the other piercing. However, Amanda wanted a
slightly more difficult ear piercing so we went to a little piercing
shop on Estafeta. It looks really cool but she definitely was in pain
for that one.
Since the sun as finally decided to visit Pamplona I sat out in the sun
one day and then we both went out the next, only managing to gain
horrible tan lines! Therefore the next day it was time to get out our
bikinis and go lay out to fix the tan lines, its a working progress.
After getting pretty burnt we decided staying in for a bit was probably
our best option. Thursday my laptop decided to die and refuse to do
anything but show me a blue screen so I had to find somewhere to take
it. After much worry and somewhat depressing moments of not having any
type of entertainment they finally emailed me back late on Thursday
night telling me that they could fix it but would have to erase erase
everything on it and it was going to be much cheaper than I had
anticipated thank goodness! That next day after class I was able to go
pick it up. Thankfully I had Amanda again to help me get the internet
set back up on it after a good hour of trial and error. Speaking of the
inefficiency I seem to find here in Spain so many times. The night
before I left for Ireland I had my bus ticket printed and realized that
my name and details were not printed on it. We went downstairs to get
the lady to reprint it and spent a good 45 minutes waiting on her to get
off the phone and she never did. So we walked over to the printing
office on campus and they do not have internet in there so they couldn't
open the link to my ticket. We then went to the library and they had
internet but no printers, so that was no help either. After a good 2
hours we finally found a place that could print it and all was well. I
was extremely frustrated to say the least. Another random and exciting
event here: Amanda and I decided to do a homemade hair treatment a
couple weeks ago. We found a recipe online and mixed bananas, olive
oil, eggs, milk, and honey all together. Then put the pot in my bathtub
and bent our heads over and covered our hair in this quite nasty
mixture. We covered our heads in towels and sat there slightly
disgusted for about 30 minutes waiting on the treatment to be done.
Then it was shower time! Had some super silky hair the next day that's
for sure. Hmm..what else? We still continue cooking. We have made
homemade spaghetti and meatballs, paella, more chicken and patatas
bravas (Amanda and Katie style), a cheesy pasta frittata, homemade apple
pie in a skillet.... Also, while grocery shopping yesterday we were
picking out a bag of lemons and Amanda said "that one's frozen" as she
reached to touch it. As soon as she did we both looked up and died of
laughter when we said "no that's MOLD". It definitely took a long time
to regain composure on that one! Last night we went downstairs to hang
out with some students who live here to celebrate Kaci's birthday and
then we headed out to Ozone for the night.
Getting ready was just about miserable since there is no air
conditioning here, and it is finally getting up to about 85 and 90
degrees we are just about to bake in our rooms. All we have to do is
sit here and we sweat. So needless to say cooking and getting ready
with blow dryers and straighteners was miserable. However, we survived
and its cooled down a bit today...if only it will stay like this. And
now...41 days and its back to Tennessee!