Can you tell I don't want to do my homework?

I forgot to mention that one of my friends got stung by a jellyfish in Mallorca.  It looked painful.  Not a whole lot has happened this week.  We had dinner with Ángeles's ex the other night, and it was surprisingly not awkward.  I was convinced his name was Brian for quite awhile, but apparently it's some variation of Ibrahim (Brahim, maybe?) that I'm not sure how to spell.  He's apparently Berber and was born in Tangier.  Interesting.  He was very nice, anyway, and they seem very friendly with each other.  They've only been divorced for a few months, though.  I feel so bad for Ángeles right now.  Her father fell and cracked his hip and can't move for a month and her mother is also bedridden from depression or something.  She's an only child and they live all the way in Galicia, so she's under a lot of stress what with having to take care of them and make a decision on more permanent care.  I wish there was something I could do.  She's in Berlin until Wednesday, so I have the house to myself right now.  She'll come back for a few days, then leave again for two weeks to take care of her parents, during which time I'll probably live at the Fund.  I feel so sorry for her and I hope I'm not too much of a burden.  Anyways, on a more positive note, we had a group tour of Alcalá de Henares yesterday.  It has a university and was the birthplace of Cervantes.  That's pretty much it.  Don Quixote and I are getting to be quite good friends, though:

Not really relevant, but I had a lovely conversation at lunch with one of the Japanese students named Kotaro.  I mention this because I am apparently horrible with names and thought his was Totoro for the first few weeks here.

Only me, really.  Speaking of which, I missed the bus three times the other day.  There are two buses that I can take (with staggered schedules) and the stops are a block apart.  I missed the first by a few minutes, so I walked down to the second.  I arrived literally just as the bus pulled away.  I turned to go back to the other stop and saw the other bus, early for once, go around the roundabout and past my stop.  I then had to wait for twenty minutes for the next one and missed my class.  To make matters worse, there's a mental hospital on the route of the bus I did eventually catch, and one of the patients decided that screaming the entire way was a very good idea.  It's a 30 minute ride.  I was ready to kill someone.  Speaking of buses, on the way back from Alcalá, one of the students puked on the bus.  We had to stop for an hour or so to clean it.  Good times.  In other news, my friends and I went to "the wall" yesterday- literally just the city wall.  It's the place to go and drink, apparently.  There were certainly some trashed Toledoans nearby, anyway.  We played some cards and got weird looks from passers-by.  Hurray for lame American tourists!  Open alcohol isn't technically allowed within the city walls, so our Spanish friends had ghetto paper bags around their bottles.  I had to laugh.  After a card game and a half, Veronica and I met up with our ice cream friends at O'Briens (the one Irish pub in Toledo).  On the way in, we passed the bartender telling two guys that he never wanted to see their faces in his bar again.  I wonder what happened.  Anyways, I spent most of my evening having a lovely conversation with the Spaniard about the pros and cons of healthcare reform and the differences between the Spanish and American systems.  I must say, I'm pretty proud of my language skills.  Obvious American accent aside, I can hold conversations pretty well.  I also thankfully sound like I know what I'm doing when the male citizens Toledo decide to creep on me while waiting for the night bus (driven by a crabby old man instead of Stan Shunpike, unfortunately).   This is the first weekend I've actually spent in Toledo (thank you, homework) and so far, so good.   Sorry for the choppiness of my last few posts; I'm trying to catch up on everything.  I'll try to stay on top of things now, but we'll see.  ¡Hasta pronto!