I'm handing over our sophomore year notebook to rae tonight, so i opened it and flipped through, landing on all the usual passages, things about jackie, about, dan, about the ducks and other boys we liked. at the end of my section is the following: "welcome to the return of the notebook--in europe! today is wednesday. it's 1:45 pm here and the weather is cloudy for the first time as we move toward the french border (i think spain is sad we're leaving). what are my recollections of spain now that we're exiting it? a beautiful country, so beautiful...green is everywhere you look, trees, plants, hills, it's spring here and everything is blooming. the country air is cool and fresh, colder now in the north. Madrid had such an air of elegance, but there were too many crowds and flashy tourist shops. somewhere a little quieter, like Segovia, would be nice....Ok well it's thursday now, and i'm on the 150 mph bullet train to Paris. We're movign backwards, gross! Last night was the best one of the trip. after dinner, lindsey, meredith and i went down to the beach in biarritz. we took pictures of the ocean and the wave crashing onto the rocks. it was dark and raining a little but amazingly beautiful. then we had mad irregular goat sex on the beach *does irregular goat imitation* meeeehhhhh...."

oooh and hen it goes into the beginning of my description of how i met manuel, my spanish sex god from seville. teehee. ok wow i just reread like all nine pages of that and well i sure had forgotten some things! this is awful i can't even remember anything i physically said to manuel in spanish. according to the notebook, hilary and i were doing ok, but i really can't remember telling him he was the cutest one in the room, or talking about how cigarettes are bad for you when meredith and christian went onto the roof to smoke. damn, the things you forget! it's only been like two and a half years. there's notes in here about dj, for christ's sake....ewewewew.

hahaha sara do you know what i just found? a little ditty with the line "there is no rain in winter...." LMAO! do you remember how i couldnt stop laughing over that when i first read it, and you got really mad at me because of course there were certain emotions there, and i remember thinking he was pretty dorky, and then....well....cough cough weird shit happens.