I was going to dedicate a blog to last weekend in Cádiz, but I think it's easiest to sum the weekend up with a simple equation. Carnaval in Cádiz = Halloween down Welch + VEISHEA x infinity. It was a lot of fun to see everyone dressed up and to experience all of the celebrations, to hear the chirigotas (satirical singing groups), and to be down on the Mediterranean again.
I had a great experience Monday at my internship, and got to help evaluate residents individually and administer psychometric exams to measure cognitive functioning and levels of depression. I also got thrown into a spur of the moment emergency therapy session with a family, which made for a really interesting day.
Tuesday evening a group of us got together and bought plane tickets for Budapest the first weekend in March. Yup... I'll be turning 21 in Budapest! Exciting stuff :)
And today... uff da. As much as I love my internship, it's been a struggle to get it organized (not on my end of things), and it still lacks structure and sufficient hours. I spent most of today stressing about it and about getting a roll on my independent study. If the director of my program here in Spain doesn't throw things together soon, I will be cramming tons of hours into every week until I leave and essentially have no free time because of my independent study and my internship. These are things that should've been together by the time I got here, four weeks ago. As I always do when I get overwhelmed, I decided it would be best to take full advantage of siesta, which was probably my best decision of the day. After waking up I realized that today is Ash Wednesday, and went to mass with some of the other ISU students. The Catholic church we went to was PACKED full of people, which is a strange site here in Spain, or anywhere in Europe for that matter. It was a good service, but I really miss singing hymns at church... something they don't do in any formal church I've been to here. Also, I found it interesting that when I went up to be marked with ashes, the priest scattered them across my head (like, in my hair) instead of making the sign of the cross on my forehead. Strange.
This week has flown by even faster than last week. Just my internship and one class tomorrow, and then we take off for a weekend in Cordoba and Granada. :)