Days 12-14

Monday

Drying clothes...

Well, Monday my roommate has a 9am class. She was running late and left the door open as she was scurrying around to get ready. I could hear every other person that was awake trampling out the door, right passed me, very loudly. I was up. I figured out that Monday at 8:45 in the morning is the best time to do laundry in this apartment because just about everyone has classes. My first class is at 2:30pm on Mondays. 

I went out looking for dinner around 6pm because I hadn't eaten much of anything "real" all day and I was hungry. The Spaniards, however, don't normally eat dinner until 8/9 at night and most everywhere was closed. I happened to run into the girls, who were going to a culture exchange, and I just tagged along with them. When we got the exchange the bartender informed us it didn't start until later in September. As we were trying to figure out what we should do or where we should go we met this Spanish couple who was also there for the exchange. Carlos is 17 speaks English pretty well and his (not) girlfriend is Valentina who is 19 and working on her English. She's spent her life in Bulgaria and Spain so she speaks Spanish, Bulgarian, English, and she's trying to learn Italian. 

We left that place to go to McDonalds, because "It's cheaper," according to Carlos. After looking at the prices I am not too sure, anyways we talked some more with them. The girls practicing their Spanish and me just listening...

Before we separated we exchanged contact information and we'll see where that leads us.

Tuesday

Tuesday there was a "concert" for us in our study center. Caitlin Mahoney was an FSU Study Abroad student in 2010 and she' touring Europe with her new album. She sang, and chatted, and gave us advice.

This is one of her videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76DqBtkeJvc

Afterwards everyone was going out to this International Student Dinner, which was free food, but as we started walking and someone mentioned how we had to take a cab or bus Lia and I decided against it and went off to find our own food. It was after 10pm and many places were closed. We turned down a side street and found this cute Asian restaurant. We ended up having a 4 course meal for less that 7 Euros each, that's pretty impressive.

Walking back from dinner Tuesday

Once we got back one of my flatmates was upset and we had like a heart to heart thing going on with her, and another one of my flatmates that had walked in, about our living situation and friends and whatnot. That was nice, then Lia and I had a little talk before she went back up to her suite. She's pretty great. I'm glad that she's one of my friends and that our group is full of awesome people.

The wifi was out last night from about 10pm to 9am the next morning. It was rough. It's very difficult to do online work when there is no internet. It's also super difficult to have contact with anyone because we all use wifi to communicate with each other and everyone abroad.

Wednesday

It's Wednesday so today started with a run and a trip to a Patisserie, or whatever they call it in Spain, and today I got an Ensaimada and it was delicious. I only had Spanish class today and then I went shopping and I should be set for the next two weeks, hopefully. Now I'm back, not doing homework and instead writing this post. There's a tapas tour tonight that we're doing so we'll see how that goes. (They gave us one tapas, but free wine. We decided to go out to dinner instead. We found a great place that takes our cheques! We'll be back, I'm sure.)