At school, it was easy to write things down. My days consisted of doing homework, complaining about Saga food, and working. My life literally never stops these days.
The past week was a bit more chill. We have been attending grammar classes each morning...and by grammar I mean our teacher tells us which bars are the best and where to eat dinner and how to stay safe and how to swear and jerks. It's helpful.
Making friends has been easy and difficult. Easy because I made a new best friend t
he first day there. But it has also been hard because that has been the only true friend so far. Ther
e are so many people on this program and while they are all extremely nice and outgoing, within five minutes of small talk I hear how their boyfriends have slept with hookers, or how many times they have been high and in rehab, or how many days in a row they have been drunk since arrival. Nice, but not someone I feel like trusting...
But me and Kati are incredibly happy and having a blast. We get out of "school" around 1 at which point we walk home and enjoy an AMAZING lunch from our Senora. We have yet to be disappointed. The three course meals are amazing every single day and we have yet to have a repeat. Then we take super long siestas simply because we can.
Last week we took an amazing day trip as a group to Segovia to see the castle that Walt Disney based his idea off of, and the Cathedral, and had an amazing lunch with abut 7 courses and a famous Segovian dessert.
We have also been busy planning our trips! I am actually leaving for Valencia, Spain (about 4 hour bus ride from Madrid) tomorro
w (Saturday) at 7 AM! I am also SO excited for my two planned trips: Portugal on February 4th and Paris for Valentine's day!! I am truly without words for how amazing this all is. I am trying to live it up until my money runs out. Which will happen pretty darn soon since the American Dollar is worth NOTHING. Thanks.
The week before we checked out a trendy bar and danced til 6 AM at a gay club. It was beyond amazing. They have a different feel and attitude towards gays here, so there were many straight people as well. And last night was amazing. We stayed out til 6 in the morning again, dancing the night away and receiving tens of thousands of compliments regarding our beauty from every type of European. Please beware of Italians. They are trouble.
Today we took it easy and strolled the beautiful Casa de Campo - miles upon miles of hills, trees, a
lake, and trails. Madrid truly has everything....everything! As the Italians kept telling us, "Madrid iz zee best, zee best."
We have also been eating a lot of chocolate because it's beyond amazing.
Love you all! I'll try to be better. :)
This all sounds so exciting!!! I love that you saw the castle Walt Disney used as inspiration LOL. Me being the Disney freak I am...
ReplyDeleteYour classes sound much more fun than mine. Although (I can't remember if you or Kati told me this) but Cesar is awesome. I love his class. He just needs to start teaching us how to swear now...LOL
Your pictures look awesome...is that last one the chocolate drink Kati told me about? Because if it is, I now want some more than ever LOL
Have fun this weekend and I can't wait to read about it!!! Miss you!!!
erin, you are ridiculous and awesome all at the same time :-P i'm sorry that your "friends" there are not the greatest, but yay for having a new best friend! i am very jealous of all your little side trips, i think that if my life ever gets easier i will start to look into places to go. as for right now your weekend sounds like it will be more exciting than mine...except i get to see kevin! i just wish you were there too :-/ i can't even run this meet (i'm more broken than before) so all i can do is watch everyone else run. my dad was going to come down, but now that i'm not running he decided not to. after he told me he wouldn't come down he said, "it's too bad to, i was going to bring you some cake"...i was very sad :( so other than being miserable yesterday thinking about track i got to brag about my bestie to my lifting buddy, but i already told you that.
ReplyDeleteso i completely just lost my train of thought, but i should get going...we have a guest speaker today (an ex-neo nazi) which should be intense and i don't want to be late since i'm supposed to be early. but keep having lots of fun! te amo! i miss you lots!
Hey sweetheart,
ReplyDeleteI love you so much. Keep it up with all of the site-seeing and exploring all of Spain and Europe! And I'm relaying a message from Colin and Katy that they were in the process of posting a comment on this blog but had a few technical difficulties and their message got deleted! So, they will post another one. The point is though is that we are all thinking of you. You look so pretty. I miss you.
Oh, the Italians. Have fun in Valencia!
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