10 days

I've been up now for only a couple hours, and already I am bored out of my mind. And when I am bored like this, I am homesick. I am going to go into Madrid today, but I never want to go too early because then I get bored there too, and then I get even more homesick. The goal is to go into the city in the mid to late afternoon, and hang out until 8 or 9pm and then catch a bus back to Pozuelo. That way, by the time I get back here it is almost time for bed, at the very least time to wind down, and so I can hide out in my room for the most part until I fall asleep. That is how my weekends here go anyway.

But, this is my last weekend in Madrid! Thank God! I'm not leaving until next Wednesday, but I'm going to be in Barcelona next weekend, my last weekend in Spain, which should be a lot of fun. Dad got me a nice hotel (4 star; he got a good deal) and I got the plane tickets. I've been reading the guidebook that Erin and Justin got for me before I left, and am really excited to be getting out of Madrid and away from this family for two days and two nights. I don't get back until Sunday night, so I will only have Monday and Tuesday of that week to work, and then I fly home that Wednesday.

So this is my last full week of torture. I cannot wait to go home. I'm homesick and lonely and this trip has not gotten better over time, only worse. For awhile in the beginning it felt like it might be getting better, but then it didn't. And then it got worse. And now it just sucks. I'm miserable, always fighting back tears, I just want to go home.

Never in my life have I wanted a pair of magic ruby red slippers so badly as I do now.

There's no place like home.
There's no place like home.
There's no place like home.

Well, today is Sunday. The family has just left to do whatever it is that they do. I saw the boys but not the parents. Which is partially my fault because I keep my door closed until I have a reason to open it. And rarely do I feel the urge to open it. Only out of necessity. But, once it is open, it stays open until I go to bed. Just in case anybody needs me for anything. Or wants to say hello. Or whatever.

God, I want to go home.