Barcelona Still

First of all, thanks for the support from various people who've emailed or blogged. Haha. Don't worry about trying to make me feel better. I've heard other horror stories that have done the job and I'll get to those later.



Yesterday I booked a flight to go home earlier. After I did that though, a phone call made me realize that if I went home earlier, I'd be disappointed in myself later on. So I cancelled the earlier flight and I'm coming home as originally planned.



I have roughly ten days left - two more nights here, six nights in Madrid, and two more nights in London. I feel like it's a long wait to get home and at the same time, a short duration left here in Europe. I still don't know what I'm going to do with so much time in Madrid but hopefully I'll find something that will keep me from getting bored.



I'm in a better mood today, determined to finish this time here. Haha. It would still be nice to go home but it's cool staying here. Regarding those other horror stories, I thought this one was crazy and sucked ass:



So I've been hanging out with this Australian guy from Melbourne named Andy. He was with me when my stuff got stolen and went with me to the police station. (By the way, the theft is a very unexciting story.) He was staying at the same hostel I'm currently at but had reservations at another better rated hostel. And he also moved because the Filipino ladies that work there and are really nice to me are rather mean to everyone else. So anyway, at his new hostel he met this other Australian who has been in Barcelona for the past 3 months. He was originally planning on staying here for only 5 nights.



It turns out that for the past 11 weeks, this other Australian guy has been in jail. Early in his stay he went on a Pub Crawl and had a bit of a spat with this obnoxious and drunken American (go figure). The story goes that the Aussie pushed the American back and the American, in his drunken stupor, fell over and hit his head. The American was in a coma for six weeks while the Australian was arrested and thrown in a Spanish jail with no English speakers for 11 weeks. Although he paid the 20,000 Euro bail and 500 euro per hour attorney fees, he has not gotten his passport back since being released and because of that, can't really get home yet. That sucks major ass.



So... it's a good thing that I, or any one of my friends, didn't catch the guy who stole my stuff and beat the living shit out of him. My Spanish is horrible and I'm a little too pretty for jail. Haha. Not really, but yeah - 10 days is better than 11 more weeks. See you guys in 10 days.