Uhhnnnh....

So... I have contracted my first (and hopefully only!!) illness while abroad: a stomach virus.
Oh joy.
The ONLY upside to me being sick was that I got to experience Spain's free health care system. Quite the experience. We didn't need an appointment or anything; we just went and I got pretty much right in and she diagnosed me right away. The visit was 40 euro (that is going to be reimbursed back to me when I get back to the States) and the medicine (some liquid for the stomach virus and pills for the aches and pains) was FOUR euro. I know, pretty ridiculous. Thank you free health care (and people of Spain for paying your taxes so my medication could be so cheap).

In other news, I took my first linguistics exam a couple of days ago, and I'm not sure how I did, but that's not the point of me putting this in here. I realized something interesting while I was taking it. I knew most of the stuff and the stuff I didn't know, I thought about but didn't freak out about the fact that I didn't know it because (here it is folks....) it's JUST a grade. And this is this new and scary revelation for me. Because school has always been really important to me. And it's still important, but people are so much more important than school could ever be, and it's okay to take breaks and spend time with them.
I'm not sure if this makes a whole bunch of sense, but I'm really excited about it, because I'm excited to get to spend more time with people and less time freaking out about school.