Changing Dynamics

So life round our sweet little abode has had a few changes in the past couple weeks. First of all we got two new roommates the other week which has definitely made for some funny moments. Their names are Graham and Steven (Our señora pronounces them Gray-Ham and Eh-Steven, which is pretty funny and slightly confusing between esteban and esteven) and they are from the University of Richmond. Steven is from Massachusetts and Graham is from New York, about 40 minutes outside the city. They arrived not this past friday, but the friday before. They are pretty cool but their spanish is worse than mine was when we first arrived so their conversations with our señora can be rather comical. Juanky is now sleeping at his grandmother´s house because we are officially out of beds and room here. It definitely changes the dynamics around the house when he isn´t around because he is always up to something or yelling "mamá" from some room in the house. The two newbies seem to be adjusting well but they haven´t quite figured out the eating system around here haha. Graham made the major mistake of telling our señora that he was really hungry the other day and he was surprised when he found that his bowl of soup contained about 1 and 1/2 times as much soup as the rest of us. He promptly remedied this by switching bowls with Steven but he had no idea what he had done. I should mention that Steven probably eats the least out of all of us. When our señora came to the table and realized what had happened, Graham got an earfull haha. She was mostly just joking with him but to some extent she wasn´t. He has been getting paid back for his little "cheat" as she calls it since. She made him finish the salad the other day and it was hilarious. Graham also hasn´t really figured out the political climate of this house, Juanky and our señora are huge about the PSOE which is the socialist party and the more liberal of the two major parties in Spain. Graham opened a political discussion at the table with "I like George W Bush" to which I responded "Still??" This was only the beginning of a rather long winded politically charged conversation which was to follow. The problem is that you really cant discuss anything with our señora or Juanky because they are rather closed minded about most things. Honestly they are a bit racist which definitely plays a role in their closed-mindedness. They aren´t like angry racists they just think certain things about certain groups of people that really have no legitimate basis. When one of these conversations occurs its best just to nod your head and eat your food because the more you try and argue the more stubborn they get. Its rather comical. Honestly they rival some of the Freemans I know on the stubborness scale, and let me tell you, we can be stubborn. Anyways, I try and help the newbies out when I can because they just don´t have the vocab and Esteban always helped me out when I needed it. They are comin along slowly but it is definitely helping to improve my spanish because I remember things better when I am constantly asked about them. Overall life here is pretty good, I just finished my 10 page term paper and so now I am officially done with school until August!! I am pumped, although I still need to go back and edit the paper, but that really doesn´t count. I am honestly about ready to come home and get my summer started for real, and to see all the friends that I havent seen in about six months!! Incredibly this six months has flown by, honestly I dunno where the time went!! But the only sad thing is that I will be leaving some of the new friends I have made here! I said my first two goodbyes the past couple of days. My friends Olivia and Elizabeth left for Africa yesterday. They will be doing AIDS research in Malawi and another one of my friends, Ricky, will be leaving on Tuesday for Malawi, but with a different program. It will be sad to say goodbye to everyone as we all leave, but it will definitely be the hardest to say goodbye to Juanky and María José because honestly I feel like part of their family! It will be really weird to be in the states without them!! Anyways, I just figured I would give an update since my life has calmed down a little bit after exams and expect some more posts about different trips that have already occurred that I simply havent had time to blog about yet!! Hasta Luego!!