Yesterday was an incredibly full day, and I thought I’d share it, because, well, all of my days are full here. So here it is…
6:30am Up and straight to the shower
7:05am Out the door and walk to the metro (no breakfast!)
7:45am Arive at school, run in to the cafe, grab a cafe con leche, crappy bocadillo de jamon y queso, and sprint to class before my professor closes the door at exactly 8am (which is rough for everyone who’s running on Spanish time!)
8:00-10:00am Financial Analysis (SO freaking hard in Spanish, I have to say–why do I need to know ratios of working capital, seriously?)
10:00-10:30 break! talking with friends, more cafe con leche, a moment to breathe
10:30-12:30 Back to Financial Analysis
12:40-2:00 Presentation from a highly specialized consulting and private equity group, from Dubai (loved the presentation, but lack the technical ability that they’re looking for–plus, my parents would KILL me if I moved to Dubai)
2:00-3:00 LEAD (leadership development class)
3:00-3:30 Break, and I’m starving, and they’re out of bocadillos in the cafe, so I settle for a donut and a cafe con leche
3:30-6:00 More LEAD (final class, and it was a good one–we learned about overcoming obstacles to personal change and also about body language)
6:00-7:00 Another company presentation, this time from a local boutique consulting firm — the final presentation of career week, whew! (now I have to start doing cover letters, CVs, etc, for summer internship, and if anything, I feel LESS clear after all of the career week presentations than I felt before…)
7:00-8:30 Steal a geopolitics reader in English from a friend, to finish reading the articles for today, and sit in the cafe for another freaking crappy bocadillo and a bag of potato chips (seriously, I am the picture of healthy living) while I read and enter my reflections from the readings into the Geopolitics website
8:30-9:15 Write a few emails while I wait for my friend to get out of his class so that I can give him back his reader
9:30 On the bus that will take me to the metro to get back home
10:15 Arrive at home, change clothes and retouch makeup, visit with Mariona for a few minutes (temporary roommate, fellow artist friend of Raul’s, who has been here for the month of October–lovely arty type, incredibly laid back–I’ll be sad to see her go!)
10:30 Out the door again to go to the Bar of the Week, which is mostly an IESE event (the other b-school in BCN) but they invite ESADE as well, and it was, like, a 5 minute walk from my house, so I went to meet Tonni and some friends — met a really cool kid from IESE who, I’m pretty sure, went to Wesleyan at the same time as Stella, and also a gorgeous, interesting Israeli woman, and, without question, the best looking man I’ve even SEEN in Barcelona (freakishly tall, freakishly attractive, freakishly charismatic, English, obvious–why doesn’t he go to my school?!)
1:30am Back to my house, run into Jorge, who’s still up (the awesome half-spanish, half-danish film director/writer who’s crashing on our living room floor this week) and watch the first 15 minutes of Anchorman, because he had never seen it, and I felt like it was totally appropriate to give him an immediate introduction, obviously (“the human torch was denied a bank loan… the human torch was denied a bank loan”)
2:00am Finally to sleep, for a few hours…
Okay, that was my day yesterday. Every minute packed, every minute slingshotting me forward, and you’ll notice, I barely even did any schoolwork yesterday, because, seriously, WHEN would I have fit it in??? Which means: LOTS of reading this weekend. Wheeeeee….
Think of this as making up for lost time- at the Jeannie.
Sweetie, why don’t you get some fruit and nuts, etc. to keep with you for snacks. Also, are you drinking enough water? Get some rest. Loveyou!!!