Best Day Ever

Monday and Tuesday this week breezed by. Since everyone was still travelling, all the stores were closed for the holidays, and I was still sick with strep, Meg and I stayed in both days and just layed around. Yesterday, Wednesday, was my last day of culture class and grammar class. Meg and I were also supposed to go volunteer for the last time with the little kids from the inner city school. However, the bus that usually takes us was so full, the driver wouldn´t let anyone else on. Since I volunteer between classes, I didn´t have time to wait for the next bus because I wouldn´t get back to my class in time. So, unfortunately, Meg and I had to cancel our last day of volunteering.
Instead, we went to the Arcadia office and talked to Triana and Cristina for a little whle. After that, we wandered around the shopping district of the city and I bought a pomegranate pendant necklace (the pomegranate is called a Granada here, it is the city´s symbol). We stumbled upon an adorable Christmas festival set up in one of the plazas with a ton of little booths selling jewelry and other handmade crafts. After wandering for a while, I headed back to class. In Amsterdam, I had received a message from an American student in Granada who found my student ID on the street, so I got that back from him at the CLM. While it was pretty useless, I really wanted to keep it for memory´s sake.
After lunch (albondigas!!!), Meg had class and then we both waited anxiously for our housing lottery at Denison. Everyone who is currently abroad got a random number and, in that order, gets to pick a room for next semester. Since Meg and I want to live together on East Quad, the pickings were pretty slim and we were both stressing about it. I got number 19, which is terrible considering the handful of rooms that we wanted. Luckily, however, Meg got 5. Our good friend Becca got number 1, so she took a single. Therefore, there were only a few people ahead of us that could take the double we wanted. Most of them chose to live in singles, but one person wanted a double. For some reason, they chose to live in Crawford (the sophomore dorm I lived in last year), which left the double in Shaw open for Meg and I. My proxy and best friend back at school, Amy, was so great about the whole process. We never could have gotten the room without her. Now we are living in our own double, in a junior dorm, on East Quad. The only downside is that it´s on the fourth floor and I´m uncertain about whether there´s an elevator that can help me with move in (eek!).
Overall, it was a wonderful day. Today is the last of our classes and then we have Friday, Saturday and Sunday to take in the last bits of Granada before finals next week. Only 8 days left!
I love you all,
Em