17-Jan-09, 13:59 MADRID.
In recent news, I went out last night! On Friday and Saturday nights we’re given 22€ to eat dinner by ourselves and get a chance to explore the city. I recommended that a bunch of us go to Cañas y Tapas because that was really the only place I could remember and no one else knew what they wanted to do. Turns out everyone really liked it and it wasn’t expensive! This made me cheerful. I’m always afraid people won’t like what I recommend, but this was very much great success. I ordered my first glass of legal wine. This was exciting considering the fact that it was cheap and tasted really good. It was Rioja. After dinner we went walking around Sol and ended up going to this little bar called Bodega. It was pretty calm and laid back. I tried some sangria and it was absolutely incredible. Mm.. I am so going to enjoy wining and dining in this wonderful city.
After that I went home and Skyped with Mommy, Daddy & Renata. I miss them, but I know I’ll see them soon. Breytman Women Prague-Vienna’09! Woo! I’m hoping to get a phone card soon so I can talk to them. The internet isn’t exactly the best over here.. At the moment I have stolen WiFi probably from a neighbor or something, but it’s extremely slow and barely works. Which brings me to my next exciting event..
I met my host family! They seem really nice but have left me alone for a couple of hours and I’m kind of bored. I don’t really know what to do. =/ They told me I spoke Spanish really well and thought I was Latin American, as did the Peruvian cab driver who I made friends with on my way here. I guess it’s good that they think I’m a native speaker and don’t have to dumb things down for me. That also makes me cheerful. Juanjo (the 20-yr-old) was at the university and when he came back was really quiet and didn’t talk to me that much. Also I’m pretty sure that Nicolas (the 14-yr-old) has decided to ignore my existence. Welcome to my life. :P
Tomorrow we’re going to walk around Retiro around 12pm but that’s about it. Classes start on Monday and I have a meeting about my internship that day too. I haven’t really got much more to say at this point. We’re going out for dinner again tonight. I’m hoping my phone will work, because I have yet to send any texts or anything like that.
We’ll see.
Hasta luego!
Marianita
1 comment:
The boys are probably just getting used to having you in their house. I'm sure it will get better with time :-) I'm glad to hear you're having fun. Oh, and colour me surprised that you are good at Spanish - I had no idea! hahaha
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