“There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.” – Mary Worley Montagu
Amelia Jesse Jones
At 20 years old, Ameila Jones is the girl who has everything except for what she really wants, the boy to share it all with. She is going to school without having to take out loans, which she will pay for long into the distant future. She can speak fairly fluently two foreign languages and for these languages is able to study abroad and devote four months to each so as to make her fluency better. She has many classmates who could kill to have her life even with the boy missing from the picture.
Amelia is a junior in college and spending her year in Europe. A semester in Cadiz, Spain studying the language and literature and a semester in Aix-en-Provence, France again studying the language but instead of literature she will be studying cinema history. She is enjoying her semester in Spain so very much but she keeps being reminding of the things that she is missing at home and wishes that she were with the people she loves right now both at school and at home.
She has a best friend Joshua, who had been a friend since the elementary school bus days, whom she just realized about a year ago that she has feelings for but nothing happened between them because he left for Afghanistan in October and did not want anything to happen. She spent time with him over the summer and tried to figure out what to do as she had not directly told him that she liked him. She ended up chickening out every time and so when he left for training in the middle of August, she still had yet to figure things out with him. She decided that she would not wait for him for the year that he was going to be wrong but she was also not going to look for someone to take the spot of boy in her life.
Amelia is not the most popular girl ever. She is not a partier and not a big drinker, she has morals stronger than most her age. These things put her on the outside of most groups. She was hoping that would be different here in Spain but apparently she was wrong. The majority of the group took the first chance they had to go out for drinks even though they were all jet-lagged. Because of this outsiderness she has found only two and a half friends in this country. A girl in her program named Eloise and a girl from Canada named Katrina.
Eloise is a great friend but she can be a bit standoffish sometimes. She and Amelia hit it off on the second day of the orientation and stuck together because they were the only ones that were not out seven days of the week. They walked around town exploring their new home, they climbed the biggest hill in the city just for exercise, and the view was an added bonus and went and sat on the beautiful beach. Anything to get out of the house and enjoy the gorgeous summer like weather that the city was providing them. Class was only 4 hours out of the day and there was barely any homework since it was only one class for all of those hours. They very quickly became close and were able to talk to each other about anything and everything. The only issue was that Eloise does not want to travel and being Amelia’s only friend that meant Amelia did not have anyone to travel with.
Amelia found out about trips through the university that she could go on, so she did. The first one was to Malaga, another coastal town nearby. She met many new people on this trip and really enjoyed the trip as a whole. One of the people she met was Katrina, a Canadian girl who was in a similar place as Amelia only she was not in a private program so she had a better chance at meeting more young people. Katrina and Joelle hung out the entire weekend except for when their nationalities separated them. They continued to hang out as the weeks progressed, becoming better and better friends.
Amelia was having a hard time because of the friends issue already and then she started to have problems with her host family as well. Her madre insisted that she needed to eat way more than she would have ever eaten for like five meals at home for just one meal and when she did not eat all the food that was on her plate her madre assumed that she didn’t like it. This was not the case at all it was simply that Joelle did not have the room in her stomach to eat it and the fruit that came afterwards.
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