First of all, I want to thank my friendies for the comments on the last post. I appreciate the latest news from UMR. John, thats not a boner on Manolo´s shirt; that is supposed to be an arm. Kelly, thanks for picking up the slack and disapproving of anything John does. Lane and Sam, good luck on rebuilding Goat House; I expect it to be capable of oribital flight when I return. Chi, I have been a disappointment so far, but I will not give up yet. Lazer and everyone, dont suffer to hard with the homework.

Back to recent Spain events: Day before yesterday Ana, Alex and I went to Madrid to get a few things done. One of which was to get the key to Ana´s apartment in Madrid. She´d let a Polish friend of hers stay in her apartment while he was visting his Spanish girlfriend. We ended up eating lunch with him. He was very amusing. He barely knows any Spanish but he is fluent in German and English. So our conversations were a mix of Spanish, German (which Alex and Ana know well enough) and English (which Alex understands almost perfectly). Surprisingly enough, I found that I understand a good amount of German when it is spoken at a foreigner´s level and with a Spanish accent.

We also saw UPM´s computer science campus. It was really impressive, some 6 or 7 buildings all dedicated to computer science. Everything looked really modern and clean. Seeing a whole building labeled Inteligencia Artificial is really motivating. What´s not so motiviating is that I stopped by one of the offices to find out when classes are and NOPE they dont know until September 5. At least they could tell me that.

This is going to be the last entry for a week or so. This afternoon we´re going to the airport to pick up an Italian couple that Alex and Ana befriended in Germany. Then we have about a week to drive them around Spain and show them the sights. So I imagine I wont have much time or opportunity to write on a computer.