10-13 # Holy Homework, Batman!

Wow! So we just got done with Spain's National holiday yesterday, and return for classes today. I only had two classes today, but they both had homework due today. Then, after handing in today's homework, we got a pile of more homework! I think this is what happens to make up for holidays: homework!
None of it's too horribly bad, I mean it's not a Physics 222 final or an Organic Chemistry midterm, but it is a lot of time-taking work.
Things I will be doing in the next few hours:

• Working with the provinces of Spain. Not just the 17 Autonomous Communities, but the 50 provinces. Luckily, he only said to fill out the sheet, not memorize them!
• A simple government lesson over Monarchy, Dictatorships, and Democracy. Did you know there are 11 Constitutional Monarchies in Europe and that there are at least 6 Military Dictatorships in the world?
• Read about the 2006 smoking ban in Bilbao.
• Write a story implementing intertextuality (yes, it's not a word in English, but I'm not sure what to call it) where I write a story that somehow repeats/refers to itself
• Define romanticism and explain when and why it appeared in Europe
• Find Romantic artists and comment on their works
• Write a paper about the life of "El Greco"

So that's a total of 3 worksheets, 2 papers, and 4 short answer questions, all due tomorrow!

Also, I booked my trip to Paris this past Saturday. I'll be going November 11th-14th, and am super excited. Now I just need to figure out how much Berlin, Athens, and Thanksgiving are going to cost me so I can see if I can fit in Brussels and/or Amsterdam and/or any other places!