My days are a blurrrrrrrrr. Or atleast when I am trying to write a week later. Thank god I have Brit sitting next to me right now, she's reminding me of everything! I was VERY excited to stay in Madrid for the weekend, even though that didn't really happen. Traveling is tiring.
Monday, the usual school & nap & then back to school. Call me lazy for not wanting to stay at school, oh well. Monday night was Shannon's 21st birthday. Unfortunally, he lives by Moncloa, so that meant he wanted to go to Cave Bar, which I've already been too twice. Ughh, went anyway because he is my friend & it was his 21st. Shortly after 12:45 I could tell he would be needing to go home soon, so a bunch of us went to Fontana de Oro( always a good option on a Monday Night). It was actually pretty fun because we met some Spanish guys, who I can practice with, except I'm still horible! Late night we ate at the Chocolatería de San Ginés Restaurant. The famous chocolate con churros place in Sol because of its late hours, open till 6 or 7am on most nights wooo!
Tuesday decided to be touristy after class and went to the children's science museum with Emily, Caroline, & Yev. Quite interesting experience because little did we know that we had to change lines & actually leave the city of Madrid. I don't remember the part of the city we were in but I do know that we entered ZONE B. Madrid is Zone A so we had to pay 1 euro to cross over because our Abonos( monthy metro pass) didn't work. Now, first site walking out of the metro was basically a junk yard, ghetto area, trash everywhere. Immediately I thought that we were in an unsafe area but it deffiently got nicer as we walked toward the museum. Would I want to go to Zone B again? ehhh not so muchh. Now, if anything is ever ghetto, sketchy, im unsure of the area, etc... I refer to it as ' Zone B'. Quite a good word if I say so myself.ex- " This is sooo Zone B"
Finally went to Serrano 41 on Wednesday. Another popular discoteca in Madrid. It was a good time except a much older crowd, people in suites etc.. Music was still really good :)
Thursday was my first intercambios night that I could go to. It stinks that it's always held on Thursdays because everyone is usually on their way to a different country/city. This time it was at a bar on Calle Cava Baja in La Latina. Anyway, it was at first hard because you don't know who is American & who is Spanish. I met a few people here and there and then finally sat down at a table. I talked to one girl who is American & goes to the University of Maryland but we spoke spanish to eachother. I then met these two girls, Tanya & Thalia, who are from Mexico but studying in Madrid. It was awesome because they knew perfect english but also knew perfect spanish. Best of both worlds. We all ended up going to a bar MoMa after intercambios & then to Joy. Didn't want to go there but supposdly a good DJ was playing there so we went. Got to hang out with those Mexico girls & it was muy divertida!
Friday, Royal Palace style. Took the tour it was really cool. I wanna go back & get the English Tour guide eventually. Megan& I decided we wanted to go to Salamanca. A small college town about 3 hrs outside of Madrid. Who knew you needed to buy tickets in advance for the Renfe train station. Just so confusing & Megan & I were NOT prepared for any of this! Oh well, we made it & took a 8;00 train to Salmanca. Got there by 10:30 & figured out how to get into the city town. All a new experience for us. I never actually booked a hostel & did the WHOLE trip on my own! I was tour guide & event planner, me, Julie? not a usually occurence! But we made it. Anyway, Friday night was a BLAST! We met up with Trent, Nick, Caroline, Kayla & all their ISA friends because their program was in Salamanca the same weekend. We went to a chupitaria & then Camelot. FUN FUN FUN FUN yay, im glad it was worth spending the night over here! Saturday we went sightseeing. Saw the New & Old cathedrals, University of Salamanca, the Roman bridge, House of Shells. Can't remember anything else. The weather started out really rainy but cleared & it ended up being hot & sunny except the wind was fuera de control( out of control). Still better than rain!
Sunday, TOURISTY DAY yay! Went to the rastro in La Latina that is every Sunday. It was fun but just very crowded. I didn't end up getting anything but would like to eventually go back to look again. It was hard to walk around with a group of 6 of us, too complicated keeping track of everyone! We then all went to Paseo de Castellano. It is a giant, main street right by my house which is very convienent! We all walked down towards a bunch of famous buildings in the business district. We saw the Torre Europa, Torre Picasso( tallest building in Madrid built by the same man who built the WTC), and Puerta de Europa( the two buildings that lean at a 15 degree angle). It was a BEAUTIFUL day out so I was just happy to have the sun shining on my face since it has been raining for the past 2 weeks here,blahhh blahh blahh. Everyone else took the Metro back to their houses but Emily & I decided to walk back to our casa, only a 25 minute walk and well worth it! Stopped in our favorite bakery/bread place because that is THE ONLY THING OPEN ON SUNDAYS! BOOOOOOOOOOO. NOTHING is open in Madrid on Sundays. I don't get it!
Besos! ( Kisses)
Monday, the usual school & nap & then back to school. Call me lazy for not wanting to stay at school, oh well. Monday night was Shannon's 21st birthday. Unfortunally, he lives by Moncloa, so that meant he wanted to go to Cave Bar, which I've already been too twice. Ughh, went anyway because he is my friend & it was his 21st. Shortly after 12:45 I could tell he would be needing to go home soon, so a bunch of us went to Fontana de Oro( always a good option on a Monday Night). It was actually pretty fun because we met some Spanish guys, who I can practice with, except I'm still horible! Late night we ate at the Chocolatería de San Ginés Restaurant. The famous chocolate con churros place in Sol because of its late hours, open till 6 or 7am on most nights wooo!
Tuesday decided to be touristy after class and went to the children's science museum with Emily, Caroline, & Yev. Quite interesting experience because little did we know that we had to change lines & actually leave the city of Madrid. I don't remember the part of the city we were in but I do know that we entered ZONE B. Madrid is Zone A so we had to pay 1 euro to cross over because our Abonos( monthy metro pass) didn't work. Now, first site walking out of the metro was basically a junk yard, ghetto area, trash everywhere. Immediately I thought that we were in an unsafe area but it deffiently got nicer as we walked toward the museum. Would I want to go to Zone B again? ehhh not so muchh. Now, if anything is ever ghetto, sketchy, im unsure of the area, etc... I refer to it as ' Zone B'. Quite a good word if I say so myself.ex- " This is sooo Zone B"
Finally went to Serrano 41 on Wednesday. Another popular discoteca in Madrid. It was a good time except a much older crowd, people in suites etc.. Music was still really good :)
Thursday was my first intercambios night that I could go to. It stinks that it's always held on Thursdays because everyone is usually on their way to a different country/city. This time it was at a bar on Calle Cava Baja in La Latina. Anyway, it was at first hard because you don't know who is American & who is Spanish. I met a few people here and there and then finally sat down at a table. I talked to one girl who is American & goes to the University of Maryland but we spoke spanish to eachother. I then met these two girls, Tanya & Thalia, who are from Mexico but studying in Madrid. It was awesome because they knew perfect english but also knew perfect spanish. Best of both worlds. We all ended up going to a bar MoMa after intercambios & then to Joy. Didn't want to go there but supposdly a good DJ was playing there so we went. Got to hang out with those Mexico girls & it was muy divertida!
Friday, Royal Palace style. Took the tour it was really cool. I wanna go back & get the English Tour guide eventually. Megan& I decided we wanted to go to Salamanca. A small college town about 3 hrs outside of Madrid. Who knew you needed to buy tickets in advance for the Renfe train station. Just so confusing & Megan & I were NOT prepared for any of this! Oh well, we made it & took a 8;00 train to Salmanca. Got there by 10:30 & figured out how to get into the city town. All a new experience for us. I never actually booked a hostel & did the WHOLE trip on my own! I was tour guide & event planner, me, Julie? not a usually occurence! But we made it. Anyway, Friday night was a BLAST! We met up with Trent, Nick, Caroline, Kayla & all their ISA friends because their program was in Salamanca the same weekend. We went to a chupitaria & then Camelot. FUN FUN FUN FUN yay, im glad it was worth spending the night over here! Saturday we went sightseeing. Saw the New & Old cathedrals, University of Salamanca, the Roman bridge, House of Shells. Can't remember anything else. The weather started out really rainy but cleared & it ended up being hot & sunny except the wind was fuera de control( out of control). Still better than rain!
Sunday, TOURISTY DAY yay! Went to the rastro in La Latina that is every Sunday. It was fun but just very crowded. I didn't end up getting anything but would like to eventually go back to look again. It was hard to walk around with a group of 6 of us, too complicated keeping track of everyone! We then all went to Paseo de Castellano. It is a giant, main street right by my house which is very convienent! We all walked down towards a bunch of famous buildings in the business district. We saw the Torre Europa, Torre Picasso( tallest building in Madrid built by the same man who built the WTC), and Puerta de Europa( the two buildings that lean at a 15 degree angle). It was a BEAUTIFUL day out so I was just happy to have the sun shining on my face since it has been raining for the past 2 weeks here,blahhh blahh blahh. Everyone else took the Metro back to their houses but Emily & I decided to walk back to our casa, only a 25 minute walk and well worth it! Stopped in our favorite bakery/bread place because that is THE ONLY THING OPEN ON SUNDAYS! BOOOOOOOOOOO. NOTHING is open in Madrid on Sundays. I don't get it!
Besos! ( Kisses)
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