Santander, last day

It's been a fantastic last day. I came home from the UT celebration dinner before 3am - as usualy, the others bored me - and woke up at 1pm today. Off to a good start.

The weather, however, was up to no good. It was another November kind of day, so I wrote a jacket as I went to buy candy for mom and do one last email session instead of spending the day at the beach like the 15 old tourists who were out there. On the way home, I decided to go exploring through the Matalenas park near my apartment. I climbed through a few rocks and ended up right on the coast, with the ocean splashing up on my legs. It was the only serene, meditative kind of experience I'd had here.

Returned home to my final dinner, Spanish tortilla and flan for dessert. Between that and my feeling of fluency today (random conversations are now effortless), I had a sense of accomplishment, like in 5 weeks I successfully integrated myself with the people of Santander. Tomorrow I fly home a month older, ages wiser, and bilingual. It'll be a great day to be me.
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