Weekend Escapades

I often find myself in awe that I am actually living in Spain [even though it's just for five weeks].  The fact kind of hits me like an epiphany, as if it were my first time noticing that I'm in a completely different world.  I had that kind of moment a few times today, and it just put the biggest smile on my face.  Truth is, I am in love with Spain.  

Here is why:

sun + mountains + beach + cool old buildings = happy me.

I'm actually really lucky that I made it to our little day trip today.  I woke up at 9:47 . . . we were supposed to meet at 9:45.  I shot out of bed and ran into the kitchen in a panic.  Sweet Guillermina let me use her phone to call one of my professors while she whipped up breakfast and lunch and then she called a taxi [which she paid for] and sent me off with a "buenas suerte."  I was just praying the whole taxi ride that I would make it in time.  And good thing I did because we had a lot of fun.

[My wedding present for Trent and Meg.]

After we got home from our little escapade, I ate some dinner [some of the shrimp in my soup still had their eyes--I put those ones back into the pot] and talked to Amanda . . . and then met up with Meg at the perk.  We went down to a bar close to the school where everyone was watching the Barcelona-Manchester game and then went with some friends afterward on a search for chocolate con churros.  Amazingly enough we found it after walking past tons of discotecas and sidras.

Yesterday was a lot of fun as well.  First, Meg and I went to a place that has nine different types of chocolate to have chocolate con churros [of course].

We then went with our group to some place for Espiche.  To be honest, I'm not sure if Espiche is the name of what we were celebrating or it described how we were celebrating the special day . . . but basically it's an excuse for the Spaniards to drink even more sidra than they already do.  Anyway, it was a lot of fun because there was tons of great food and cultural dancers and people enjoying their sidra [while we enjoyed our water].

My grammar/vocabulary teacher came up to me and was making sure that I didn't eat anything with nuts and showed me which things had nuts.  I thought that was really sweet!

After that little escapade, we went with our group to and talked and went dancing at a discoteca [yes, I actually danced . . . but it was basically just with Megen haha] and other such things.  My two awesome friends Dave and Chase helped walk girls home and we took a little breather at the end of our dropping-off route and just enjoyed the street and the graffiti.

[Chase isn't in the picture because he's taking it.]

I'm just loving life here, as you can probably see.  Who knows if I'll actually make it back home--if anything, it'll be because I miss cereal and crisp apples too much.  [And I guess because I miss you too mom.]

 O.x.  [Big hug, leeetle kiss]