Woop. Im going to buy a hair straightener now. And some mouthwash. Love life.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Morriña
This, combined with an overwhelming feeling of laziness, is why I have not been updating my blog lately.
Saturday, February 7, 2009
oh hey there
I would've updated more this week, believe me, I had the time, but they would have been the most useless, boring posts ever. Why, you ask? Because i've done absolutely nothing. Well, up until last night. I got sick this week, so my host mom has had me on steady dosages of jarabe and other random drugs, and i've pretty much just felt shitty. I was supposed to go out thursday night - i even had clothes on and everything - but i just couldn't. i went to bed at 9pm and woke up at 11am. 14 hours of sleep. too much. i felt even shittier when i woke up, haha.
Friday i went to Chueca and Sol with Charly and we bought boots! yay - mine are so hot. perfect for going out. because, let's be honest, me and stilettos don't mix very well. so yeah, boots with a heel are a good compromise, cause they're hot but i'll still be alive at the end of the night.
So we went all around sol and the surrounding area yesterday, and then i got home and took a nap! <3 naps...i take one a day at least, haha.
After my lovely nap, i got ready to go out and we went to this cool bar called tupperware, and get this: I HEARD TIME TO PRETEND BY MGMT IN THE BAR!! i freaked out, haha. and then i made natalie come with me to the stairs so we could hear it better cause they were playing it downstairs and we were sitting upstairs. but yeah, it was a really chill bar with AWESOME music!
We were there for a while, and then walked all the way to El Tigre in the freezing cold. We walked by Pacha, which is this club we were originally going to go to, but it costs 16 euro to get in, and we are cheap mothafuckas. plus, jana and natalie's intercambio apparently has connections there, so if we go next week, he'll be able to get us in for free =). i like it, i like it a lot. So yeah we went to El Tigre and got massive mojitos (they are the best...so big and only 6 euro and sooo gooood), but then we talked the promoter dudes from joy and they were like "if you want to get in free, you have to leave NOW." That meant that we had to finish our mojitos in like 5 minutes, which was...interesting. it sped the night up, to say the least, haha.
We got to joy, claimed to be on this random dude's guestlist from eurovibe (maybe steve??...idk) and ended up getting in fine. so that was nice. after that, we just danced up the evening til around 5, when we had had enough. Charly and i left, thinking no one else was there anymore (originally me, charly, rachel, natalie, jana, kim, dana, and kate had come, but i think they all left at some point before us...it was a packed club, thus it was nearly impossible to keep track of such a large group!), and we went to cafe y te to wait out the metro.
BUT THEN cafe y te was closed! alas! we were so tired, we went to the street right by cafe y te to wait for it to open, and just plunked ourselves down on the street in front of a closed dunkin coffee. Rachel and some Greek dude met up with us there, and then this random from Tangiers latched on to our group and would NOT leave us alone. He went with us to Cafe y Te and insisted on taking multiple pictures with us. When we left Cafe y Te, he attempted to follow us into the metro, but we booked it as soon as we got through the barrier, and lost him! haha...good work, charly.
i got home around 630-7, as usual, and went to bed. My host mom woke me up today with some coffee and codeine...i think that's what it is? it's OTC, but she asked me if i was allergic to codeine. and the drugs here are SOO much stronger than those in the US. classic. she's convinced im dying, i think...but it's okay..cause she's super nice, and although she can be a bit overwhelming, i know she's just worried and making sure im okay.
So today, saturday, i gotta read this EU stuff and do some other homework. Also, i must shower. ew. so lazy. i guess i'll get on that, cause it will probably take me a good half hour to get myself out of bed and moving. haha. SEE ya!
Friday i went to Chueca and Sol with Charly and we bought boots! yay - mine are so hot. perfect for going out. because, let's be honest, me and stilettos don't mix very well. so yeah, boots with a heel are a good compromise, cause they're hot but i'll still be alive at the end of the night.
So we went all around sol and the surrounding area yesterday, and then i got home and took a nap! <3 naps...i take one a day at least, haha.
After my lovely nap, i got ready to go out and we went to this cool bar called tupperware, and get this: I HEARD TIME TO PRETEND BY MGMT IN THE BAR!! i freaked out, haha. and then i made natalie come with me to the stairs so we could hear it better cause they were playing it downstairs and we were sitting upstairs. but yeah, it was a really chill bar with AWESOME music!
We were there for a while, and then walked all the way to El Tigre in the freezing cold. We walked by Pacha, which is this club we were originally going to go to, but it costs 16 euro to get in, and we are cheap mothafuckas. plus, jana and natalie's intercambio apparently has connections there, so if we go next week, he'll be able to get us in for free =). i like it, i like it a lot. So yeah we went to El Tigre and got massive mojitos (they are the best...so big and only 6 euro and sooo gooood), but then we talked the promoter dudes from joy and they were like "if you want to get in free, you have to leave NOW." That meant that we had to finish our mojitos in like 5 minutes, which was...interesting. it sped the night up, to say the least, haha.
We got to joy, claimed to be on this random dude's guestlist from eurovibe (maybe steve??...idk) and ended up getting in fine. so that was nice. after that, we just danced up the evening til around 5, when we had had enough. Charly and i left, thinking no one else was there anymore (originally me, charly, rachel, natalie, jana, kim, dana, and kate had come, but i think they all left at some point before us...it was a packed club, thus it was nearly impossible to keep track of such a large group!), and we went to cafe y te to wait out the metro.
BUT THEN cafe y te was closed! alas! we were so tired, we went to the street right by cafe y te to wait for it to open, and just plunked ourselves down on the street in front of a closed dunkin coffee. Rachel and some Greek dude met up with us there, and then this random from Tangiers latched on to our group and would NOT leave us alone. He went with us to Cafe y Te and insisted on taking multiple pictures with us. When we left Cafe y Te, he attempted to follow us into the metro, but we booked it as soon as we got through the barrier, and lost him! haha...good work, charly.
i got home around 630-7, as usual, and went to bed. My host mom woke me up today with some coffee and codeine...i think that's what it is? it's OTC, but she asked me if i was allergic to codeine. and the drugs here are SOO much stronger than those in the US. classic. she's convinced im dying, i think...but it's okay..cause she's super nice, and although she can be a bit overwhelming, i know she's just worried and making sure im okay.
So today, saturday, i gotta read this EU stuff and do some other homework. Also, i must shower. ew. so lazy. i guess i'll get on that, cause it will probably take me a good half hour to get myself out of bed and moving. haha. SEE ya!
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Monday, February 2, 2009
No me gustan los lunes
bah what a useless day.
i had class for an hour and half, went to the store and bought all sorts of ridiculously unhealthy food (ham flavored chips anyone?), and have spent the rest of the day in front of the computer and/or sleeping. i didn't even do any of the work i had told myself i would get done. ohwell.
i am addicted to celebrity gossip. and facebook. it's official.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
New Garamond, Sol Round II, Flamenco, Museo de Traje, Toledo, La Sala, Walden Uno
Oh lord. I know i haven't updated this in a while, but man oh man.
WARNING: this is a very long post.
Wednesday
Charly, Lena and I went out with some club promoters we had met the weekend before. They brought us to this really nice club named New Garamond. It would have been nice, except there were a few problems: we met up in Sol, which is about 45 minutes from where Lena and I live. We thought the club was in sol, and that's why we agreed to meet there. So we get there and Brian and Jon are like, alright we have to go to Cuzco (which is SO CLOSE to where we live). So we ended up going all the way to Sol and back. Boo. Next, we got to New Garamond after walking around aimlessly for approximately 30 minutes (because im telling you, this club is not near anything...no metro, no obvious landmarks, no nothing) until we find the club. So we get there only to find out Lena didn't bring her ID. Now, in Spain this is not usually an issue, because wherever you go, they pretty much always let you in. Only, tonight of course, the doormen decide to be real douches and deny us entrance because she doesn't have an ID. They weren't even going to let Charly in, and she had a copy of her passport! they were like..."sorry, a copy won't work, we need the real passport". Who the HELL is going to bring their actual passport to a nightclub?? Honestly, that's the dumbest idea ever.
Soo...we come up with a plan. Lena doesn't feel well, so she decides she wants to go home. Since it's so close, we decide that we'll get Lena's license and Charly can use it to get in to the club. Charly lives far away, so for her to go home, it would be quite difficult. Let me reiterate...Charly is 21 years old, had a copy of her real and legal passport, and is reduced by pure desperation to having to use Lena's driver's license! How ridiculous! Also, by this point it's like 2am so i'm getting tired because we haven't done anything yet, and i'm also so bored. I forgot to say that when we were coming back from Sol, the metro took seriously like 20 minutes to get to the stop we were waiting at. Don't ask me why, but yeah. bad luck.
Thursday a bunch of us met up with Andres, Jose, Sergio and some others in Sol. Andres and Jose are in Walden Uno, this band we randomly saw in McGinty's Goat a week or so ago. After everyone got there, there were about 10 of us plus the 5 guys we met up with. Big group, but so much fun. We went to Alhambra again, and were all probably obnoxiously loud and boisterous, but who cares. After a few hours in Alhambra, we decide to go to another place. Andres' friend owns it, and he said they had great mojitos, so we went to check it out. However, on the way there, we came across this promoter dude for another small bar. He was offering out free drinks, so obviously we took advantage of that and stopped by for a few minutes. I have no idea what the club was named, but there was great music, so we stayed for a bit longer.
**random aside: I have heard this seriously every time i have gone out here. Thursday night was no exception. It's so catchy omg.**
After taking full advantage of the situation, we finally go to the other bar where Andres' friend works and have a great time attempting to dance Flamenco and Salsa and whatnot. At about 4am everyone was so tired, so we wanted to go find the buhos and crash but ended up having another mini adventure, because Andres' friend wanted to hang out and said he would pay for our cab home if we came for a few minutes to his house. At this point, me, Amanda, and Tess are the only ones left standing, so we go to this dude's house and hang out for a bit. Bah we were all so tired. Por fin we get a cab and go home, but it ended up being 40 EUROS what the hellllll. the stupid taxi driver obviously took advantage of us. >:0
Friday:
We woke up early (well, relatively, since we don't have classes and we had been out SO LATE the night before) and all convened at the Museo de Traje, which is actually a pretty cool place but i was so not in the mood for a museum. It has all these pretty outfits that famous people and royalty owned dating back to medieval times. I went through the entire exhibit in about 10 minutes and then went home. Haha. I'm terrible, i know.
I took a much needed power nap.
After descansando, i went to meet up with our group again. we all met up with Maricarmen and went to a flamenco class! haaa what a joke; we were all hilarious. It was really fun though! The only thing is flamenco kills your feet because you have to stamp so hard all the time. We did circle dances and gypsy moves and everything. Good times. It was a pretty intense workout, and afterwards we were all sweaty and gross.
For all our hard work dancing flamenco, Maricarmen took us out for pintxos (pronounced pinchos) and cider as a treat. Pintxos are basically just tapas, but the place we went was soooo goooood. Oh man. The cider was pretty good, too. After we all said our goodbyes, I went home and did NOT go out, and had a much needed night in. It was divine.
At around 11:45 Walden Uno came on, and it was such a good show! people were going crazy by the end! Here are a few clips from their performance:
So after the show we stayed around in the club for a while dancing and everything, but it was sooo smoky i couldnt even handle it. My throat was muy sore and i smelled terrrible - like one giant cigarette. People told me that when i came to spain i would become a smoker, because everyone here smokes. But i think that being in a country where there is so much smoke everywhere has actually turned me off even more so to the habit. Seriously, i don't have a problem with people who smoke. No problem at all. But when you are in a small, closed space, the smoke is soo thick and its so hard to breathe and it's not fun. It's even worse if you are dancing. I can't wait to go out in the US and be able to breathe! =)
Mmm so later on in the evening we went to another bar (i wanna say the name was Bambalú?). It was sooo0o0o0o frio outside i was dying. It actually snowed today, so i guess that's why Madrid was a fucking windy ice tundra last night. I had a warm jacket but still. No good. It was about 4 in the morning and the metro opens up at 6am so I wanted to stay the extra few hours and save like 20 euro by taking the metro instead of a cab. By this time, it's only me and Rachel and Andres, and Rachel decided to leave at 5:30 to take a cab (only half an hour more and she could've saved mad $$ but oh well!). Thankfully, Andres stayed and we just hung out in the club until it closed. I got home at about 7am. I woke up at 3 this afternoon.
WARNING: this is a very long post.
Wednesday
Charly, Lena and I went out with some club promoters we had met the weekend before. They brought us to this really nice club named New Garamond. It would have been nice, except there were a few problems: we met up in Sol, which is about 45 minutes from where Lena and I live. We thought the club was in sol, and that's why we agreed to meet there. So we get there and Brian and Jon are like, alright we have to go to Cuzco (which is SO CLOSE to where we live). So we ended up going all the way to Sol and back. Boo. Next, we got to New Garamond after walking around aimlessly for approximately 30 minutes (because im telling you, this club is not near anything...no metro, no obvious landmarks, no nothing) until we find the club. So we get there only to find out Lena didn't bring her ID. Now, in Spain this is not usually an issue, because wherever you go, they pretty much always let you in. Only, tonight of course, the doormen decide to be real douches and deny us entrance because she doesn't have an ID. They weren't even going to let Charly in, and she had a copy of her passport! they were like..."sorry, a copy won't work, we need the real passport". Who the HELL is going to bring their actual passport to a nightclub?? Honestly, that's the dumbest idea ever.
Soo...we come up with a plan. Lena doesn't feel well, so she decides she wants to go home. Since it's so close, we decide that we'll get Lena's license and Charly can use it to get in to the club. Charly lives far away, so for her to go home, it would be quite difficult. Let me reiterate...Charly is 21 years old, had a copy of her real and legal passport, and is reduced by pure desperation to having to use Lena's driver's license! How ridiculous! Also, by this point it's like 2am so i'm getting tired because we haven't done anything yet, and i'm also so bored. I forgot to say that when we were coming back from Sol, the metro took seriously like 20 minutes to get to the stop we were waiting at. Don't ask me why, but yeah. bad luck.
After we leave Lena at home, we go back to New Garamond, because we've come so far, it would be so unfulfilling to just go back home after all this. Also, it costs like 15-30 euros to get in New Garamond, depending on the night, so Charly and I figured that this is a good opportunity to see if this place is actually worth it, since we were getting in for free. So FINALLY we get into this club (they actually let Charly get in with someone else's license but not her own passport! AGH) and we ended up having a pretty good time, mostly because there were random waiters walking around handing out free shots, and the music was pretty good. But yeah, what an unnecessarily hard evening.
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Thursday a bunch of us met up with Andres, Jose, Sergio and some others in Sol. Andres and Jose are in Walden Uno, this band we randomly saw in McGinty's Goat a week or so ago. After everyone got there, there were about 10 of us plus the 5 guys we met up with. Big group, but so much fun. We went to Alhambra again, and were all probably obnoxiously loud and boisterous, but who cares. After a few hours in Alhambra, we decide to go to another place. Andres' friend owns it, and he said they had great mojitos, so we went to check it out. However, on the way there, we came across this promoter dude for another small bar. He was offering out free drinks, so obviously we took advantage of that and stopped by for a few minutes. I have no idea what the club was named, but there was great music, so we stayed for a bit longer.
**random aside: I have heard this seriously every time i have gone out here. Thursday night was no exception. It's so catchy omg.**
After taking full advantage of the situation, we finally go to the other bar where Andres' friend works and have a great time attempting to dance Flamenco and Salsa and whatnot. At about 4am everyone was so tired, so we wanted to go find the buhos and crash but ended up having another mini adventure, because Andres' friend wanted to hang out and said he would pay for our cab home if we came for a few minutes to his house. At this point, me, Amanda, and Tess are the only ones left standing, so we go to this dude's house and hang out for a bit. Bah we were all so tired. Por fin we get a cab and go home, but it ended up being 40 EUROS what the hellllll. the stupid taxi driver obviously took advantage of us. >:0
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Friday:
We woke up early (well, relatively, since we don't have classes and we had been out SO LATE the night before) and all convened at the Museo de Traje, which is actually a pretty cool place but i was so not in the mood for a museum. It has all these pretty outfits that famous people and royalty owned dating back to medieval times. I went through the entire exhibit in about 10 minutes and then went home. Haha. I'm terrible, i know.
I took a much needed power nap.
After descansando, i went to meet up with our group again. we all met up with Maricarmen and went to a flamenco class! haaa what a joke; we were all hilarious. It was really fun though! The only thing is flamenco kills your feet because you have to stamp so hard all the time. We did circle dances and gypsy moves and everything. Good times. It was a pretty intense workout, and afterwards we were all sweaty and gross.
For all our hard work dancing flamenco, Maricarmen took us out for pintxos (pronounced pinchos) and cider as a treat. Pintxos are basically just tapas, but the place we went was soooo goooood. Oh man. The cider was pretty good, too. After we all said our goodbyes, I went home and did NOT go out, and had a much needed night in. It was divine.
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Saturday - Longest Day
Saturday During the Day
I woke up at 8am to get ready and get to the bus station. We went to Toledo, and our bus left at 1030. the bus station was pretty far away, so I met up with Lena at 930 and we took the metro together to the station. Toledo is about an hour away from Madrid, and it is an absolutely beautiful city. It has a lot of history, because apparently before the Inquisition and all that craziness, Jews, Muslims, and Christians all lived peacefully in this town together. There are still some mosques and synagogues intact, but all of them have had to be reconstructed, because they were all torn down in the past.
All the streets are cobblestone, and there are soo many steep inclines. Honestly, if I lived in that city, i would probably be in perfect shape. The streets are all so narrow, and there are lots of little stores and boutiques mixed in with old cathedrals and monuments. It's so jarring to see a McDonalds or a Lacoste store in the midst of things that are so ancient.
We were only in Toledo for a day, but it was great. It would have been nicer if it hadn't been so windy, but at least it was sunny! Our tour guide, Jose, was the cutest thing ever. Oh man I felt so bad because when we went to Salamanca, he was there too, but none of us knew that he was a tour guide because he barely said a word, so I think Maricarmen must have said something to him, because when we got to Toledo he was trying so hard! He was even studying notes on the bus. Breaks my heart.
Also, fun story: Amanda and Charly got into a fight with this waiter at a restaurant/cafe because we had gone in there and I wanted a coffee so we all sat down. We also met up with Kim and Meredith, so there were 6 of us. Since I got a coffee, and Meredith and Kim had ordered something too, half of us were eating and half of us were not. So this waiter comes over and is like "you guys have to leave if you're not ordering aything" and that started it. They went back and forth for about 5 minutes. It was so bad, i just gulped down my coffee and we all left. Charly ended the convo with "tu eres el peor, y muy feo!" HAHA classic. We left and found a much nicer cafe where the lady was very nice and we ordered ice cream. yummmm.
After some more touring of various cathedrals and mosques and everything, we went home. It was about 6, and we got home around 7. This gave me about 2 hours to get ready to go out.
Saturday Night
***I talked to Mariya on skype for about an hour! Yay! i think i'm definitely going to Bulgaria for spring break now! it's probably going to cost 170-180 euros for the flight round trip, so that's awesome!***
Anyways, Saturday night. Dios mio. We decided we were going to the Walden Uno concert, so I met up with Rachel, Lena, Tara, Dana, Laura, and Meredith at 10 or so and had to go SO FAR to the metro stop Eugenia de Montijo. Here is a map of the metro system in Madrid. I live nearest to the Colombia stop, which is on the pink and purple lines. This means, in order to get to the show, we had to go from Colombia to Nuevos Ministerios, switch to the blue line, go two stops to Alonso Martinez, switch to the light green line, go FOURTEEN stops to Eugenia de Montijo. Fue mucho. Pero valió la pena! We got to La Sala, which is where the concert was, at about 11. We caught the last 3 or 4 songs of the band that was on right before Walden Uno. They were called Superamy, and were basically your standar pop/punk band. They were good, don't get me wrong. Here is a clip from their show:
Saturday During the Day
I woke up at 8am to get ready and get to the bus station. We went to Toledo, and our bus left at 1030. the bus station was pretty far away, so I met up with Lena at 930 and we took the metro together to the station. Toledo is about an hour away from Madrid, and it is an absolutely beautiful city. It has a lot of history, because apparently before the Inquisition and all that craziness, Jews, Muslims, and Christians all lived peacefully in this town together. There are still some mosques and synagogues intact, but all of them have had to be reconstructed, because they were all torn down in the past.
All the streets are cobblestone, and there are soo many steep inclines. Honestly, if I lived in that city, i would probably be in perfect shape. The streets are all so narrow, and there are lots of little stores and boutiques mixed in with old cathedrals and monuments. It's so jarring to see a McDonalds or a Lacoste store in the midst of things that are so ancient.
We were only in Toledo for a day, but it was great. It would have been nicer if it hadn't been so windy, but at least it was sunny! Our tour guide, Jose, was the cutest thing ever. Oh man I felt so bad because when we went to Salamanca, he was there too, but none of us knew that he was a tour guide because he barely said a word, so I think Maricarmen must have said something to him, because when we got to Toledo he was trying so hard! He was even studying notes on the bus. Breaks my heart.
Also, fun story: Amanda and Charly got into a fight with this waiter at a restaurant/cafe because we had gone in there and I wanted a coffee so we all sat down. We also met up with Kim and Meredith, so there were 6 of us. Since I got a coffee, and Meredith and Kim had ordered something too, half of us were eating and half of us were not. So this waiter comes over and is like "you guys have to leave if you're not ordering aything" and that started it. They went back and forth for about 5 minutes. It was so bad, i just gulped down my coffee and we all left. Charly ended the convo with "tu eres el peor, y muy feo!" HAHA classic. We left and found a much nicer cafe where the lady was very nice and we ordered ice cream. yummmm.
After some more touring of various cathedrals and mosques and everything, we went home. It was about 6, and we got home around 7. This gave me about 2 hours to get ready to go out.
Saturday Night
***I talked to Mariya on skype for about an hour! Yay! i think i'm definitely going to Bulgaria for spring break now! it's probably going to cost 170-180 euros for the flight round trip, so that's awesome!***
Anyways, Saturday night. Dios mio. We decided we were going to the Walden Uno concert, so I met up with Rachel, Lena, Tara, Dana, Laura, and Meredith at 10 or so and had to go SO FAR to the metro stop Eugenia de Montijo. Here is a map of the metro system in Madrid. I live nearest to the Colombia stop, which is on the pink and purple lines. This means, in order to get to the show, we had to go from Colombia to Nuevos Ministerios, switch to the blue line, go two stops to Alonso Martinez, switch to the light green line, go FOURTEEN stops to Eugenia de Montijo. Fue mucho. Pero valió la pena! We got to La Sala, which is where the concert was, at about 11. We caught the last 3 or 4 songs of the band that was on right before Walden Uno. They were called Superamy, and were basically your standar pop/punk band. They were good, don't get me wrong. Here is a clip from their show:
At around 11:45 Walden Uno came on, and it was such a good show! people were going crazy by the end! Here are a few clips from their performance:
So after the show we stayed around in the club for a while dancing and everything, but it was sooo smoky i couldnt even handle it. My throat was muy sore and i smelled terrrible - like one giant cigarette. People told me that when i came to spain i would become a smoker, because everyone here smokes. But i think that being in a country where there is so much smoke everywhere has actually turned me off even more so to the habit. Seriously, i don't have a problem with people who smoke. No problem at all. But when you are in a small, closed space, the smoke is soo thick and its so hard to breathe and it's not fun. It's even worse if you are dancing. I can't wait to go out in the US and be able to breathe! =)
Mmm so later on in the evening we went to another bar (i wanna say the name was Bambalú?). It was sooo0o0o0o frio outside i was dying. It actually snowed today, so i guess that's why Madrid was a fucking windy ice tundra last night. I had a warm jacket but still. No good. It was about 4 in the morning and the metro opens up at 6am so I wanted to stay the extra few hours and save like 20 euro by taking the metro instead of a cab. By this time, it's only me and Rachel and Andres, and Rachel decided to leave at 5:30 to take a cab (only half an hour more and she could've saved mad $$ but oh well!). Thankfully, Andres stayed and we just hung out in the club until it closed. I got home at about 7am. I woke up at 3 this afternoon.
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Sunday
I haven't done shit. It snowed about half an inch and the whole town shut down (it's all over the news too: WARNING! DANGEROUS TRAFFIC CONDITIONS!), so i've been chilling at home eating reeses pieces - i brought them from the US....mmmmmmm - and writing and catching up on my homework.
Margarita and I were supposed to go to El Rastro, which is a nice, cheap outdoor market where you can buy things like scarves and mementos and everything, but since it's snowing, that was obviously canceled.
More random updates:
**I have been trying to find a paint-esque application on my Mac...does anyone (BLAIRE) know if Macs come with something like it? i want to edit some photos, but i can't find anything to do it with.
**in Spain, Caña means beer, which i think is funny because in Chile caña means hangover. The direct translation is either a. gray hair b. reed/sugarcane c. rod, so that's silly.
**I have been keeping my room meticulously clean because my host mom is a Drill Sargent when it comes to it. Anyone who knows me will know this is quite the accomplishment.
**I have a lot of homework! so much reading and a 10 minute presentation!....i need to do it all today, because i have not done anything productive regarding la universidad this fin de semana. but i had a good time!
That's it for now. Hearts.
I haven't done shit. It snowed about half an inch and the whole town shut down (it's all over the news too: WARNING! DANGEROUS TRAFFIC CONDITIONS!), so i've been chilling at home eating reeses pieces - i brought them from the US....mmmmmmm - and writing and catching up on my homework.
Margarita and I were supposed to go to El Rastro, which is a nice, cheap outdoor market where you can buy things like scarves and mementos and everything, but since it's snowing, that was obviously canceled.
More random updates:
**I have been trying to find a paint-esque application on my Mac...does anyone (BLAIRE) know if Macs come with something like it? i want to edit some photos, but i can't find anything to do it with.
**in Spain, Caña means beer, which i think is funny because in Chile caña means hangover. The direct translation is either a. gray hair b. reed/sugarcane c. rod, so that's silly.
**I have been keeping my room meticulously clean because my host mom is a Drill Sargent when it comes to it. Anyone who knows me will know this is quite the accomplishment.
**I have a lot of homework! so much reading and a 10 minute presentation!....i need to do it all today, because i have not done anything productive regarding la universidad this fin de semana. but i had a good time!
That's it for now. Hearts.
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