Denmark Brought the Sun to Madrid

when i have time, i'll upload my millions of photos, i've just been too busy recently!

I've been staying in Madrid quite a bit recently. I figured I needed to recharge my Madird batteries before leaving the city for 11 days. I spent the first half of the weekend sleeping in and enjoying the sun during the day and enjoying the night life once the sun went down. By first half of the weekend I mean Wednesday night, when we started our "weekend" clubbing. I went with the Brits and Colorado to a new club Zahrah knew of for a stoplight party (wear green if you're free, yellow if you don't want to be hit on, and red if you're taken. I wore white as to be nebulous and avoid sleezy guys.) I stayed at home Friday night after a long day of playing rounders* in the park, uno in the other park, and happy hour at TGI Friday's- our new afterschool haunt. I promised myself I'd avoid American chains, but for the sake of my pocketbook, I'll go for the half-priced drinks. There was a house party on Saturday night which was quite the dissapoinment for me.

But it was ok, becuase Carrie flew into Madrid Sunday afternoon!!!!

She and her friend Jeff from the DIS program joined me for a kebap picnic in the park and then I got to show them around the city. I took them to my favorite places adn got to show off Madrid. Maybe it was because the sun was out, but everything about Madrid seemed so much more amazing with them here. Their enthusiasm was contagious and I found myself gawking where I had once looked at the pavement and shuffled along with the masses as quickly as possible.

(DIS kids)

This morning, I woke up early to take Carrie to the bus station and I got to show off my language skills one last time. I was a bit sad to see Carrie leave today, it was just like being at home again. But at the same time, it was very different. It was just so surreal to have a fmailiar friend that I've known for more than 2 months here. But when I got home to my apartment and actually talked to my host family for the first time in a few days (I was so busy runnign around this past week) and then got a box of goodies from my real family, I felt at home. And because I'm a sentimental bastard, I turned up California by Joni Mitchell as I emptied the contents of the box onto the foot of my bed and took a nap under my open window in the sun before class.

I'd elaborate more on why the party was dissappointing and describe my terrible headache today that had me in tears on the metro today, but I'll leave the negatives for later- or never. Now I have to finish packing my bags and get a few hours sleep before my flight.

*rounders- english version of baseball where you only bat with one hand