some quick fun facts:
-opening the doors has proven a bit difficult, it is always a game deciding whether i want to push or pull, always choosing wrong, always looking super awkward entering the store haha
-this coloquial spanish that i am learning in class really does work! I tried speaking "coloquially" last night with this spanish guy and apparently it made me really funny cause he was cracking up hahaha.. success?
-when i grow up i want my entire room to be made out of a big space heater
-i ate a loaf of fresh bread today :)
-to get to school i take the metro from noviciado to sol, then i get off and try to act all rushed like everyone else and book it to Cercanias which is what the train is called, and i take the C4 train directed towards Parla to Getafe where my campus is. My stop is called Las Margaritas. It is then about a 10 minute walk to campus from the train station.
-I am taking 4 classes- Coloquial Spanish, Superior Spanish (yea thats right.. superior), Laboratory in Radio, and Audiovisual Narration. I have the same teacher for my two spanish classes and she is one of the best teachers I have ever had!
-EL CORTE INGLES. I cant even begin to describe. hahahaha its like a super target as in it has everything on the face of the earth but its like the quality of Macys or something, just like a big department store, and Madrid has one on every corner.
-REBAJAS=SALES!!!!! it is sales time in Madrid meaning everyone is out shopping. Take me to a store called Desigual. Me gusta.
OKAYYYY- SO MADRID UPDATES:::
this place is craziness!!!!
Cristina was in London this past weekend, and I am guessing she is still there now cause I havent seen her yet hahaha. So it was basically like having my own apartment which was like half the time fun and half the time kind of lonely. But anyways- the weekend- Thursday night me, Chrissie, a girl named Charlotte, and Tevia did the whole botelloning business on the metro platform with all the other awesome kids in malasaña. We went to a bar and got mojitos then headed to Club Joy! Which is one of the top clubs in Madrid and filled with lots of internationals. Because I am super slick I got a kid who had already been in the club to lick his hand and put his re entry stamp onto my hand so I could get in FO FREE and bypass the hour long line outside. it worked- successss. Joy was una locuraaaa- I danced, danced, danced, ran into a kid from San Antonio (?), and basically foxed it up with my heels on. hahaha. of course we got home at 7 in the morning, chrissie spent the night and we ended up waking up to a nasty rainy Friday in Madrid. Sooo, we got up and bought some bocadillos from a cafe in Malasana then walked across the street and bought crepes and then came back and watched Love in the Time of Cholera at my house. Not a good movie!!!!! hahaha. Anyways, that night tevia and i went to a bar called El Tigre which is really famous for their tapas that they give out for free with drinks. The place was PACKED! and we talked to some nice spaniards and drank delicious mojitos!!! We called it an early night because on Saturday me, Tevs, and Chrissie went to the Reina Sofia! one of the big 3 art museums here in Madrid!!! We saw Picasso's Guernica and some awesome paintings by Dali who I think is my new favorite painter besides Monet and a cool exhibition of newspapers from around the world post 9/11. It was a cool place, but like I learned in Greece I am not sure museums are exactly my speed. Nor was it Tevias hahaha, when I asked if she was done with looking at art she replied "ive been done for 20 years" hahaha i guess you had to be there but it was funny. We amused ourselves by going up and down the glass elevator for a bit why Chrissie enjoyed herself thoroughly meandering through all the different rooms. Anywaysss, after that Tevs and I headed to the token Irish bar to watch the Manchester United soccer game with other non-spaniards and thennnn we headed to KAPITALLLLLLLLL!!!!! it was chrissies 21st birthday! so we of course needed to go to the top club in all of Madrid.. and seriously it was CRAZYYYYY. and soooooooooooooo awesome. Ive never been to anything better I cant even describe why it was crazy but one of my distinct memories is this like gust of air they would blow from the ceiling to cool off the crowd and it turned the whole room foggy for a second and I dont know it was insane hahahah. The night involved dancing on shaky tables, talking in Spanish, running into a girl from Williamsburg (?), going up and down to all the 7 levels, singing, hearing about 5 thousand glasses break throughout the night, and getting two slices of pizza with the rest of the Madrid nightlife crew at this one pizza shop in Sol at 7 in the morning. Took the metro home, woke up with a hefty RESACA and decided to do some exploring in the rain with Chrissie to an area of Madrid called Chueca. We got coffee and recovered and chatted and overall had a peaceful Sunday followed by homework and solo time in this apartment.
anyways, sorry for such a detailed play by play hahaha
READY FOR ANOTHER WEEK AT SCHOOOOOL :)
mission: sit with spaniards in the cafeteria instead of people from my program.
LOVE YOU ALLLLLLLLLLL
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