My life in bullet points
I cannot believe that I only have a month left of this semester. Before you know it, the summer will be nearly over and I will have my Masters and I'll be working again. It seems like yesterday that the leaves were red and the snow flakes were falling on Boston's autumn landscape. Now the temperatures are warm and I can barely keep myself from putting on shorts. Of course, New England is fickle and we could easily be back in scarfs and hats in a week. I don't think I had fully experienced the American culture shock until this year. Sure, I experienced aspects of it when I was in college, but not really in regards to lifestyles and social interactions. I know that part of my feelings are stemming from the fact that I had such a strong gang of buddies in Madrid, while here I have scattered friends without the comfortable group reliability that I had in Spain. Part of it also comes from not living in a house full of roommates. Whatever it is, I miss having casual hang outs and...