ive officially been here a week!!!!!!!!! today was the first day i think i felt like a was really settling in, the past week has just been a roller coaster and it seems honestly like years ago that i was lost with naomi in the paris airport. im figuring out the metro system and figuring out exactly where i live in respect to everything else and it feels good to feel familiar with the city. living here is such an experience like no other.. i dont feel like a tourist rushing through sights but im starting to feel just a little bit that i am part of Madrid. its sooo wonderfull being able to speak spanish all the time and i can already tell that i am understanding things much better. our group is becoming better friends and i think we are all starting to like get that we are here to stay... the past week of hours and hours of orientation in a little office was brutal but the past two days we have actually been able to see the city and i like what i see :) although it lacks that defining sight such as the eiffel tower in paris or the parthenon in athens, i think madrid is more about all the little things and finding what amazes you.
two nights ago a bunch of kids from my program and me and camila went out to a restuarant in la latina and then to a bar afterwards. the night ended with us singing karaoke at the top of our lungs with a group of old spanish professors hahahahaha it doesnt get better
yesterday me and my friends erika and crissy walked around the city for several hours just going wherever our hearts desired, we ended up finding the BESSTTTT cafe/bar in the whole world with all these cool posters of bands and places all over the world and when we walked in "The Girl from Ipanema" was playing on the radio. love!!! i got a kiwi smoothie :)
we spend lots of hours sitting and talking here and i love it.. we just go from cafe to cafe and drink coffee or eat a little pastry and just chat. Europe is a successssssss
last night me and my friend krystal went out with 4 german guys hahahaha! a kid i met in boulder kind of introduced me through facebook to one of the germans because he knew he was living in madrid so we met up last night for the first time!! we ended up pregaming at an apartment with 4 germans, a spanish girl, and an italian girl hahah whyyyyyy dont i do this in the US?!? all the kids more or less spoke english so we spent a few hours getting to know each other and ahhh it was marvelous. then they took us to this local spanish night club and we danced for hours and hours and hours to techno and left at like 5 in the morning to walk back to malasana. i wore heals last night which wwas a huge mistake because the 15 minute walk turned into 45 minutes of me starting and stopping again cause my feet hurt so bad hahaha but its okay cause i bought a chocolate donut on the way home.
today i headed to retiro park to go for a jog and of course i randomly ran into two girls from my program who had the same idea as me!!! we meandered around for a while then headed to a cafe where i ate a croissant and had a cup of coffee.. life is good.
im now back in the apartment listening to music with Cristina- ohh who ps let me borrow her clothes last night so i would look more like a Madrileña hahahah
Class starts on Mondayyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!! ahhhh
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