I hate Mondays

I hate Mondays, especially when I have class from 8:45 until 17:00. We had SPIN classes (SPIN stands for special interest). Only there was nothing special OR interesting about these classes. We spent an entire hour on reading just one text, because there were FCE students in our class too. FCE is the lowest level in Cambridge, by the way. Our teacher was nice enough, but she wasn't as cool as Kristina. After our reading SPIN we had a writing SPIN that was equally boring. However, I talked to the people at the Academics office and they were fine with me changing my SPIN classes. Keyth (the woman that's in charge of the Cambridge program) came to talk to me and she said that I could do whatever I wanted as long as I knew what I was doing. I said I did and she said that she immediately believed me. I'll have other SPIN classes next week, the first one is about American slang and the second one is about American movies. I'm really happy about that and I think it will be fun, but challenging and that's exactly what I wanted. Yesterday Hannah and I only had class until 12:20 hence we went to Manhattan (again). We didn't go shopping, though, because after our recent shopping sprees, we really didn't want to spend that much money. The weather was OK and we walked to Central Park. Our original plan was to go to Strawberry Fields (*forever*), but we didn't know where to find it. In the end we settled for just strolling through the park. We met a hippie, that tried to sell us poetry and told us that we all come from the same tree of life (just different branches). For some reason Americans know that we're foreigners, because they always seem to sniff us out. The very first question people ask you when they start talking to you is : "Hi, how are you? Where are you from?". And we're just like: "Our English isn't that bad, is it?" We went to the Apple store as well and it was crazy. Here in America Apple is like a religion. All hail Master Jobs.  As a book lover, I know how hard it is to find other book lovers, for nowadays almost no one likes to read. You can probably imagine how thrilled I was, when I found out Hannah was a fellow book lover. We even like the same books! We went to Barnes & Nobles a.k.a "Reader's Paradise" to get some books. It was the biggest bookstore I have ever seen. There was an entire floor dedicated to young adult books and an entire aisle to fantasy books. Obviously I almost drooled when I walked in and Hannah had to practically drag me out of there. In the end I only bought one book (a hardcover for just 20 dollars!). By that time it was almost half past six and we really wanted some food. We had vowed not to eat fast food, so we went looking for a Chinese or Thai restaurant. Unfortunately finding one in Manhattan is incredibly hard. Eventually we decided to go back to Tarrytown to eat there, because they have a really awesome Chinese restaurant here. We had a lot of fun and we're glad that we get along so well. Today I slept 'till 10:30, owing to the fact that I had class at 13:15. Our classes were fun, we had to write a story about Britney Spears and told ghost-stories, much to Hannah's dismay. (She believes in ghosts and was absolutely terrified). We're going on a field trip in October. We're going to visit real American haunted houses and I'm really exited. Hannah isn't though. Oh and FYI I did my laundry yesterday and I went to the gym. I feel so responsible right know. You know you love me!

Yours truly,