¿Como estoy?

I was thinking that I more or less have been keeping you updated on what i´ve been doing but haven´t really told you how i´m doing. It´s so easy to just quickly reply "good" when asked that frequent question but I think that at least in my case, the sum of all the events and thoughts affecting my life at the moment plus my feelings and physical health, usually add up to a more complicated answer than "good". So if you have things to do right now and need to run, Spain is good, and I am good. But if you have a minute or two I will try to go more in depth.

My time here has been very interesting and different from anything I´ve ever done before. I wrote before that this semester is my first for a lot of things; living on my own, living outside the US in a country that doens´t really speak English... But it is also the first time, since high school when I didn´t really have Christian friends, that the strong support, fellowship and fun that I get from them (I can probably just say from you) is gone or at least very far off. This is also the case with my family and church whom I find myself appreciating a lot more than I did at home (not that I don´t love you family, you know what I mean).
So far it has been a growing experience for me, one that I definitely think is for the best, and even though I haven´t been able to enjoy relationships with my friends and family, I am mas o menos (more or less) very content with life.
A little history which you may or may not know but it was my Senior year in high school when I got "serious" about my faith and was baptized the following summer. Since then I have had an amazing time being surrounded by awesome Christian friends and family whether I am in Santa Barbara or San Diego. I look at my time here in Spain as God kinda taking all that away and making sure I can stand on my own. It was hard at first but I can honestly say that I feel closer to God, in a more personal one-on-one way than I ever have before. Every time I open my Bible to read I know that at that moment He is speaking to me alone and I know that everytime I pop in my headphones and sing, I alone am praising Him.
I just finished reading Robinson Crusoe which you all should know this but if not, is about a guy (Robinson) who is the only survivor of a shipwreck and lives alone on an island for years. The movie Cast Away was loosely based on it. Anyways he is able to salvage a bunch of handy stuff from the ship before it is demolished by the waves, one of those handy things being a Bible, which he hadn´t really ever read before. A few years into his adventure he starts reading it and long story short becomes a Christian. With the Word and the Spirit as his only guide he goes on to completely turn around his life and live for Christ alone. He goes on to say that even though he is alone on a deserted island he is more content being their with God than being back in civilization without Him. This is kinda a stretched analogy but I more or less feel the same way and find myself only leaning on Christ here for support instead of my friends and family which I can so easily do back home.
2 Cor 12:9 "My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness."
If you don´t mind please pray that I might have wisdom in how to engage the other people here. I am not exaggerating when I say that all they do is drink everynight and this obviously makes it hard for me to want to hang out with them. I am trying to balance, or juggle if you will, how to be a light and an example while at the same time not be surrounded by the things of the world.
Anyways, add all the above to the adventures and randomness that I have already written about and it equals a pretty good semester so far. Thank you for your prayers, you´re in mine.