Madrid

Hola!!!

Sorry I have been so lazy at writing in this lately. There are just a million and one things to do with my life.

So over the weekend I went to Madrid. It was tons of fun. The city is huge and there was always tons of people around. We got there really early on Friday and took a bus tour around. We stopped at the Plaza Mayor, this huge square with tons of shops and businesses. There were so many people there, it was really cool. We also went to the Palacio Real (the Royal Palace), no one lives there anymore. It is huge. We couldn't take pictures but I bought a book on it and some postcards so that I have pictures. After the bus tour we just walked around and went to some open air art musuems. They had statues of cows on display all over the city and they are there until the end of March. They were so cool and I liked taking pictures of them. We went to dinner at the Hardrock Cafe and it was so nice to have ranch dressing again because they don't have that here normally. We went back to our hostel to take a nap so we could go out, we went to bed at 930 and set an alarm for 1030, however, none of us woke up and we ended up sleeping until 930 the next day. It was nice to get that much sleep, we all felt like grandmas for not going out...but it was okay.

Saturday we woke up and went to musuems. We went to the Prado...this huge art musuem and were there for about 3 hours. You could seriously spend a whole day there. We also went to the Natural Science Musuem and did some tourist shopping. The weather was nice and I really enjoyed my time there. Everyone that comes to Spain has to go to Madrid since it is the capital and all.

Other things going on are not much. I have a lot of school work but thats about it. This weekend I am staying in Valencia and I am pretty excited because I feel like I haven't been around a lot lately. I haven't got any of my midterms back yet but hopefully I did well.

Last week I met with my intercambio again. I went to her apartment with her. She is so nice. I met her boyfriend and some of her friends. It was fun and I really like speaking Spanish with him because it is probably what helps the most.

This is my 7th week in Spain and it has gone by so fast. Its weird but in ways I thought my experience was going to be a lot different. My Spanish has not really improved as much as I thought it would, it has improved just not like I thought it would. I like the city and enjoy my life here, but I could never live here. I miss a lot about the US, especially ranch dressing.

My food has been good lately. Nothing interesting. Tonight we had fish and some soup of chicken. It was good. Sunday night we had omletes and they were yummy. I enjoy all my food so thats good.

I am looking forward to go to London and Dublin in the next week or so. It'll be a great experience and hopefully fun. Although it is a lot colder there then it is here. I am not looking forward to that.

Well time to do some tarea!
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