While communication isn't up to par yet, this will be my last post until I make it out of the hospital sometime next week. I've decided to as advised stay in Spain for some additional testing, and am at one of the best hospitals for Crohn's in all of Europe(what a coincidence-perhaps not). And though i am still adjusting my plans of what's next, I can only be satisfied by what I have done. This last month has been sooooo educational, so enlightening, and I have made life long friends, who will no doubt serve as my partners in crime when I get back to Savannah. I have had more fun, seen more, and learned more in the last month than can be expressed. So remember to, "ALWAYS SUCK THE LEMONS UNTIL THEY'RE SWEET." okay perhaps this makes no since but today has been better in simple fact that it came.
I was also put on a new diet-some sort of substance called 'Elemental 028' the only English or French thing i can read on the side of juice box like container is:Food for special medical purposes. Use under medical supervision. Manufactured in the UK. You might google this if you have time.It tastes like chalky airfreshner and has the consistency of well....breastmilk.
I'm here -and I can't wait to update when something actually happens. Slow and steady wins the race. Be well.

It's raining heavy here today from what I can see from my Hospital window. I received a bit of a blow as far as information goes. The doctors here want to hold me at least until next Tuesday. This means that I will be removed from my academic program, and inevitably exported back to the states. I feel a bit numb, and unsure what to think, and haven't been on the up and up all day. My Hospital chic didn't do it for me today, nor did my regular scallion broth, not even The Simpsons(in Spanish) I want to cry and curl up into a ball, but in the name of national image, I'll hold it together. I feel like this has been a defeat. No Paris. No grades. No more Europe, it might have been my only chance in life, and it was amazing--no regrets--now I am worried more about my graduation, and just getting caught up. It's enough to give one abdominal pain. My next life motto may have to be, "WEAR THE CLOTHES YOU HAVE WELL, SAVOR THE FOOD YOU'VE BEEN GIVEN, THE MORE OBSTACLES THE SWEETER THE GOAL, PACK A RAIN COAT." I will try to blog again soon, but friend who is letting me use his computer is going back to the States tomorrow or Saturday.

This is why you make your kids watch Dora the Explorer.

Some of you may have noticed the longest gap in blogging since November and wondered what was up, well I am still in Spain.
On Sunday night while my friends were going out I decided that I wasn't feeling well. The pain in my abdomen continued to persist and even got to the point that I couldn't move, so doubled over I made my way to the elevator to get a professor. We went immediately to the Hospital and eventually ended up having the worst morning of my life. The most severe pain, at one point my professor yelled for the nurse to get me more morphine, when the nurse told him that I already had enough to put a horse to sleep. While that was perhaps a low light, and after a minor surgery. The doctors are still unsure about how exactly to treat me. This scares me in the fact that if I don't get back to class by next week I'm going to be sent home, [set behind for graduation,grad school and so on.]and that right now they are unsure how long I'll still be in the hospital. I want to send two thank-yous out to the American teacher in the next room who is having medical issues as well, and my roommate(and newest facebook friend) that also has similar issues as me. My only regret is that I never learned Spanish as a child, and perhaps wonder if this were a french hospital the possibilities. SCAD has been amazing in this situation more so than I thought even. The vice President even called my parents. Right now I am doing 400% better than on Sunday. Have a smile, and am trying to addopt a new philosophy of "IF YOU CAN'T CONTROL IT YOU CAN'T WORRY ABOUT IT" As for know I will happily be sitting here as the world goes on around me learning more spanish than I've ever imagined, and thinking of all of you back in places other than the Barcelonian Hospital. Oh and on a side note a Spanish soldier died in Afganhistan yesterday, and most of you who know me know that I wouldn't mention this, but the national outcry over this one induvidual really puts things in perspective for me. Until I can talk about some of the more exciting points. I shall leave you all with that.

Today was very chill. We biked down the valley to the Cave de Bonnieux with a few guys. We stocked up on provisions and had to bike back up(less fun). I leave first thing in the morning for Barcelona I can't wait! More from there when I get time.

The day has been extremely productive. Everyone is getting a bit frantic with deadlines, and the fact that we leave for weekend trips on Wednesday. I'll be going to Barcelona Wednesday, and London next Thursday, which I'm not looking forward to with the current security level, but perhaps it will make the trip safer? Barcelona we'll be with Professors, but London it'll just be the four of us together trying to see the world-rather trying to survive the world from the way the news media has been painting it lately. Lacoste has not been friendly to relationships. Here or ones back in the states, but I'm a believer in the whole 'for everything there is a season' idea. Some things just have to happen. I have also been looking for an internship for the summer, which has so far not gone well, yet I remain hopeful. "And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should." - Desiderata The weather has been going down hill here as well. It's gotten colder and cloudier all day, which makes for a good day of research.I'm uploading some random leftover pictures, and I am confident that tomorrow will get better, while overall I am in France, where even a bad day is a good one. -enough procrastination-back to the papers.