Friday night: So Friday night we went to see the musical, 40 el musical. First of all, Profe had told us two things about this before we came: 1. We did not have good seats and 2. He did not know what it was about, only that it was popular in Spain, amongst people our age. On number one. We had HORRIBLE seats, as in, the last possible row in the theater, which you know, that's fine, except that the last possible row in the theater happened to be about 150 yards up in the air on a very, very slanted balcony. It took awhile before I was able to sit calmly up there. Secondly, I thoroughly enjoyed the play, but it was quite a bit more taboo than any of us were expecting, especially Profe. I wasn't sitting near him, but I heard his reactions were priceless. The play, from what I could gather, is basically about the lives of 6 college or fresh out of college aged kids, and their love lives, put to popular music from both Spain and the US. While interesting, some of things that happened on stage just should not have happened on stage, but they're a lot more open about public displays of affection here than in the US and I guess that applies to theater as well. Oh well, overall, it was good and hilarious!
Saturday: Saturday Anna and I went back to Reina Sofia in the morning and looked at some more of Picasso's work and of course, Guernica again. After the museum, we went to find Palacio Real, which was a difficult task, as it was not on any of the signs that point tourists places, and it was quite far away from where we started. But after quite some time walking, we found it. Very pretty, but the line to go in was long, so we just hung out in the gardens for awhile, then headed back to the hotel. We then left to get some ice cream, but when we came back, everyone else was sleeping, so we were eating it in the halls when Sam came along and we went to hang out with him for awhile, but ended up just falling asleep in their room. After about 2 hours, we woke up and discovered that it was time to head to the Real Madrid game! We got there quite early, because Profe wanted us to have some time to look at the kiosks near the stadium and observe the mayhem that goes on before a soccer game there. We ended up going out for some appetizers at TGI Fridays. After dinner, we headed to the stadium and discovered that once again, our seats were quite, quite high. However, we had a good view of the field. The game was amazing to watch! I wish I had understood the chants and things, but the energy in the stadium is amazing and there were so many people there too! Of course, Real Madrid won.
Sunday: Bright and early in the morning (okay, 11am, but early after being at a soccer game that ended after midnight) we got on the bus and headed to Toledo. I absolutely adored Toledo! It's a very small city, but it's extremely nice and old fashioned. It's very quiet and there are a lot of tourist shops, but it's just so quaint. And the cathedral was amazing too! We had to wait for mass to finish before we were allowed to go in, so we went to this nearby restaurant and got paella, which was delicious! I definitely like saffron a lot. Overall, our time in Toledo was just relaxing and a lot of looking at the city. Then we got on the bus and headed home to Granada. It was so nice to be back after so long away, but I was exhausted!
Monday: I slept most of the day after being gone for so long and sleeping so little while we were in Madrid. We met up at Cafe Futbol that afternoon to work on planning our trip to Rome, but other than that, I didn't do much.
Tuesday: Our first day of classes! My first class was my history of music class, which I absolutely love so far! Our professor is extremely nice, but she's pregnant so we won't have the whole semester. However, her replacement is her husband, so I don't think we have to worry to much about that! She was really funny though, and asked us if it was alright if she corrects our spanish when we talk or read, which of course we all want her to do! She also felt bad that we had to pay 5 euros for our books, and we all tried to explain that it would probably cost 20 back home, so really it was okay. Second I had Maricarmen's class, which is just a UNH class. She is extremely funny though, and absolutely hates it when we speak english near her, even though she understands it. We didn't actually do anything in that class on Tuesday except a little get to know each other activity sort of deal, even though we all know each other quite well by now. After lunch, we all met up again to go to Cafe Futbol and this time we officially planned our trip to Rome! May 6th through 9th I will be in Rome! I absolutely cannot wait, as it is one of 2 trips I have officially planned and bought plane tickets for.
Wednesday: Second day of classes; not quite as good as the first, but not bad. I had Spanish Civilization and Culture, which I'm thinking about dropping because the professor is really boring and hard to understand, and the class did not sound very interesting at all. I'm going to give it a try for the next week though, and then make my decision. Then we had Profe's class, which wasn't really class this week, just an informational meeting and then Flamenco! I had really been looking forward to my flamenco class because I thought we were going to be dancing and everything, but it doesn't seem that way. I was a little upset, but it doesn't seem like it will be a bad class at all, except that we have one of those students who thinks they are the teacher in the class with us, and we are all already annoyed with his trying to outsmart the teacher. Oh well, can't be helped.
Thursday: Same as Tuesday pretty much, except that I now like my history of music class more now that we've actually started learning some stuff. After class, I played soccer yesterday since it had been one of the first nice days in quite some time. All the spaniards were asking where I'd been and didn't accept cold weather as an excuse not to play soccer. They're quite in love with the sport!
Today: I slept nice and late and then met up with Anna and Kayla to go shopping, but it was snowing (yes, snowing!) so we went back to Cafe Futbol, where we accidentally met up with Jess. So we all had some chocolate y churros and then decided to head out shopping because the rain had let up. However, Granada is still on a yellow alert for snow, which is ridiculous. Apparently if we hit orange/red alert, people can't leave their houses or something like that. I find it hilarious though, because we probably wouldn't have even considered today a snowfall in New Hampshire, just a pre-winter rain fall, with a bit of snow mixed in and yet, everyone was freaking out about how their kids needed to be inside and how no one should go anywhere. I cannot wait to see how it goes over if we really get the snow they're expecting tonight!
That is it for my news update. Hasta luego.
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