So my past two weeks were quite the rollercoaster … I told my landlord I would be moving at the end of the month, after which he apparently decided he does not need to be nice, respectful, or considerate anymore. Well, all in all it is a very long story, and I will write about it some time (I have created a separate blog to write about it, and it is right now a work-in-progress, but I will share the link when it is finished), right now I just want to give y’all a short update on what I’m up to. Last weekend was probably one of the crappiest of this year so far but I am doing much better now. I have found a new (and better and cheaper) place to live. I will probably move in about a week. The new place is in an apartment only 5-10 minutes walking distance from the university. My room will actually be bigger than the one I currently have but at the same time cheaper. I will share the apartment with three people, though one is only there like 2 days out of the week. The other two are a French girl and an Argentinian girl. I am not going to live by the beach anymore but that is okay as I will be saving roughly €100 a month on rent and metro costs and the apartment is very central (10 minutes from Pl. Catalunya). And it will be with people my age. The Argentinian smokes apparently which usually would be a big no for me but the French girl is just as bothered by it, and the Argentinian is leaving in December anyway, so after that we can decide that we want a non-smoking roommate.

Anyway, I spent most of the last week looking for a new room, and going to classes. I stayed at the library until it closed so I only have to go home to sleep essentially (and I will keep doing that until I move), to spend as little time as possible in the apartment. It was really exhausting last week, but now that I have found a place to live, I can be a bit more relaxed. I actually found it through a coincidence, a girl in one of my classes (she is the French girl I mentioned) noticed I was looking for a room online in between classes and told me one of her roommates was going to move out soon. I looked at it the next day and got it.

I got an extension for my term paper that I have to write for one of my English classes back home, because of the housing situation, as I would have had to finish it yesterday but had no time to write 15 pages. I will be able to focus on that now, and thankfully the professor was so understanding and gave me that extension. I would have hated losing a semester’s work because of my crappy roommate/landlord.

So… yeah I have really not been doing to well lately, though I am a lot better now that my situation is about to be resolved soon. I cannot wait to move. If I am lucky I can move on Sunday already, but at any rate it shouldn’t be much later than a few days after Sunday.

I have not really been up to much else, this situation has been occupying my mind and I have not been doing much else lately. Friday was nice though, I met up with Carmen and we sent the afternoon in the sun. The weather has been getting cooler here though the afternoons are usually still sunny enough to sit outside and enjoy the warmth. In the evening I looked at the apartment I will be moving to and then had dinner with Anais (the French girl, my new roommate) and a friend of hers.

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