last night i went out with Camila and her three friends from Ireland for some drinks!! They are all studying law at Cambridge and University College of London. hahahahah- i was surrounded by wonderful company. actually im always surrounded by wonderful company- these kids in my program from Yale, Princeton, and UVA are awesome. like a complete 180 from my dubsteppers and snowboarders in Boulder. although i love boulder with all of my heart and soul, the kids there tend to value hanging out and adventuring more than studying and getting these amazing jobs and basically running our world. its nice to be around something new, yet also makes me miss my free spirits in colorado haha.. but no i love it.

i woke up two hours late today. the most important day of orientation hahhaha because the group took the 40 minute train ride to our campus to have a tour. my alarm didnt go off so i woke up to phone calls from the program director asking where i was... fail. hahaha so i ran to the metro, felt like a real person commuting cause you know i was one of those psychos that is running through the metro station, and i got to the office after everyone had left. sooooo my program director had to drive me to the campus outside of madrid and made me promise never to be late again. i was trying to explain to her that i wasn't drunk last night and it was only because i slept through my alarm and cristina had woken me up but i fell back asleep because i thought my alarm would wake me up and i was trying to say this all in spanish but i dont think i sounded very convincing so i think she just thought i got a little crazy the night before... but i had only had one beer. hahahaha. and i arrived late to the tour and everyone was laughing at me as a walked up- reinforces this image i have in the group as the crazy hippie girl from boulder hahahah. but anyways, it really wasnt that big of a deal and everything is fine now. the campus is smaller than boulder butttt all these students were on campus so i was excited to see all my potential friends!!!!! I really cant wait to start school and start meeting people!!!!!!!!! its going to be lots of funnn :)

Things I've noticed about Madrid:

1. The doors open on the left side.. Like if there are double doors the left one is the one that works.. i dont know its really weird and you dont really notice it until youve gotten stuck inside a building like 15 times. my hand automatically goes to the right door so yea...

2. cafe con leche!!!!! ITS DELICIOUS

3. there are all these little like mini supermarkets, kind of like CVS or walgreens that have like everything, but they are of course much smaller and everyone calls them "Chinos" because Asian people are the only ones that work there hahaha

4. Like in Greece, the light switches are on the outside of the room. for example to turn off the light inside my room i have to walk out to the hallway... its really odd

5. there aren't as many motorbikes as there were in Athens!!!! It's sooo depressing hahaha

6. Paying with euros is much more fun

7. men wear scarves all the time and it looks good. guys in the US don't ever wear scarves

8. "no pasa nada" is what everyone says all the time to everything all the time hahaha, it means like no problem or everything is okay.. i like it!!!

9. as my spanish gets better, my english gets worse.