Random stuff...

Aunt Julie...a belated GRACIAS for your message! :) Grandma told me she is going to use you to relay messages...so if you get a chance, will you tell her thanks for the letter? And by the way, I´m not sure if I have your e-mail right, so could you send it to me, please? Thanks, love you lots!

Erin, Flá, Michele, and everyone else...don´t worry, I will be safe and behave myself with the handsome Spanish men. Mom and Dad, I can´t guarantee I´ll be home by 10 p.m., but I won´t wander around the city alone, or alone with handsome Spanish men. Unless they´re policemen. ;)

Flegel and Davis...I need some Cubs updates! :)

Stupid things I´ve said, Chapter III

Sometimes the Spaniards say "Hasta luego" (see you later) so fast that it sounds like "ah-lwey-ho." (That´s the only way I can describe it phonetically.) I was leaving a store the other day and the clerk standing by the door said what I thought was "hello," and I thought, "How nice, he must be able to tell that I´m American," so I told him "hello" back and he gave me a funny look. I was kind of confused, so I just kept walking out of the store, and then I realized that he´d really just said "see you later" in Spanish and I´d answered him with an American "hello."

OK, that´s all. ¡Hasta luego! (Not hello.)