Round Two

on the train from Malaga

So here I am back in Seville. I've been here 3 days and already, indeed from the moment I stepped out of the train station on Sunday, it feels like I was never back in Ireland at all. The journey back was exhausting, a  lack of direct flights between Dublin and Seville during the winter months meant flying to Malaga at half past 7 in the morning, getting to the train station, hanging around for 2 hours and then getting a 2 and a half hour train back to Sevilla. Luckily Monday was a holiday so that was a chance to catch up on sleep. Classes did begin today but I wasn't able to muster the energy to go in because I seem to have been floored by yet another one of those sinus/head/throat/stomach things that are plaguing me this year. Oh well, hopefully I'll be able to stand up long enough to walk into college tomorrow and try to put my academic hat back on, although I'm not sure I even remembered to pack it. :)

Am I glad to be back? Well, the short answer is no. Not yet anyway. The being sick at the most inopportune times thing doesn't help in the slightest and the prospect of exams less than two weeks from now would make me feel ill if I wasn't already. Aside from that, I... didn't particularly want to come back. I'm really not sure what we should call what I have now, it's hardly still homesickness after all this time, but whatever it is has my resolve of my last post to Have Fun And Enjoy Myself This Term crumbling already. That's disappointing, but of course it's not the end of it. A few bad days don't have to ruin the next 6 months (6 months sounds so very long...) and I'm sure things will pick up, there's a lot to look forward to.

In any case, because I really do have to put in some work for these exams (fails and repeats are hardly going to cheer me up) and because right now (as you have probably realised) I can't really summon my happy blogging voice, posts will probably be a bit thin on the ground for the month of January. You never know though, I might suddenly want to write about my favourite trees this weekend or something similarly pointless but fun. Hasta luego chicos, promise I'll be a little more cheerful next time we talk x