Elephant getting into the Asturian spirit

For those of you who don't know, Oviedo is in the region, or rather "autonomous community" of Asturias. Much like our states in the good ol' U.S of A, each region has their own flag, anthem, and also own colors. Asturias happens to be blue and yellow, and honestly, I can't help but think of Sweden every time I see an Asturias flag.

In any case, I saw this the window of a shady Chinese trinket shop for pretty cheap, so Elephant commanded me to buy it for him:

For the uneducated, this is a mini version of a typical European soccer fan scarf. I've seen a lot of the college kids around here hang them up in the rear window of their cars, much like us American college kids seem to all have some sort of sticker indicating which college they go to across their rear windows. People here seem to have more allegiance to their regions rather than their universities or cities.

Also, I saw this my first week here posted on the side of my "facultad," it is hard to miss because it is probably 20ft tall, but I thought it was a bit creepy myself. It is supposed to be an ad for the Red Cross to encourage students to donate blood. Here it is:

So, loosely translated: Tthe top says "Year 3050" and underneath the creepy robots says "They will not be able to donate blood." Then below that with the normal looking people it says "Today you all can" and in smaller letters: "Donate blood, you will feel good. (university campaign of blood donation)"

Personally, I thought it was a bit scary, especially given its enormous size and the rather forbidding Terminator-esque robots that apparently are going to take over the world and need to suck our blood now so they can feed off of it later. Something like that.

Anyway there isn't much else to say, but I have been feeling a bit under the weather lately and sleeping a lot. I actually slept through dinner last night and apparently missed a dinner-party of sorts going on in the house. Oops. Even with all the sleep though, I still felt exhausted today and took a couple naps after school and I'm about to take another one. Dayquil helped me get through class today, although yesterday the expresso machine came to my rescue... half a euro for a shot that really saved me.

Friday I have my first Law and Cinema class since I missed the first one, classes were canceled last friday, and so now we come to week number 3... oh yeah, and there is no class all next week for Semana Santa (easter break). Sheesh.