Me encanta Madrid

I’ve really gotten into the groove of the Spanish Lifestyle. My computer is literally falling apart, but vida es Buena. I wake up every day at around 730 and take the metro to school. If I get there early enough, I like to read the newspaper and drink a café con leche con pura (churro grande) I read at least 3 newspapers a day. 20 minutos and A D N which are free right outside the metro and at school they give away El pais, which is super right wing but I still read it. I’m getting a lot better at Spanish, I definitely have my on and off days. Like in class, somedays I just can’t seem to speak, but other times I impress myself. I think it has to do with how tired I am and how attentive I am being in class. We finished our first curso this week. We did a full semester worth of work in 4 weeks. I got a 91 on the final…stoked. Outside of the class, I am getting by ordering in bars and talking to some locals. Friday night, I was on the job hunt. I had two interviews over the phone but my Spanish wasn’t good enough. Both of them was for club promoting jobs. I woke up Saturday morning feeling very refreshed and skateboarded around basically the whole city of Madrid. On Saturday night, I learned Spanish flows mucho major con una cerveza o tres. I was talking to a group of girls for a while Saturday night (actually Sunday morning at around 6 am) and I asked them to rate my Spanish. They gave me a 6.5. That’s passing right? That excited me. Carnival was this weekend and most of my friends went south to Cadiz where it rages. I’m glad I didn’t go, because there was huge parties here and I saved mucho dinero. People were dressed up in the streets and it was so much fun. I really don’t like the idea of traveling with big groups of American’s anyway. I’d much rather go solo or with Marisa. We are headed to San Sebastian on March 5th which I’m super stoked about, finally get some olas hopefully. In other news, Atletico Madrid beat the undefeated FC Barcelona (boooo) last night right down the street. This puts Real Madrid within dos puntos of being in first. The score was 2-1 and every time Atletico scored my apartment building shook and everyone was screaming inside and outside the apartments. Today, it started snowing, and my teacher noticed my amazement asked why. I told her I’ve seen it snow less that ten times in my life she let us out early so I could go make munecas de nieve (snow men). After class I hopped on the metro and headed home. I was enjoying my game of snake on my movil (high score is 4200) and approaching my high score. I looked up and saw the most hideous man with nubs for arms and a horribly burnt face. My stomache dropped like it used to when I saw midgets at Wahoos when I was younger. My room mate had told me about this guy. I felt so bad but at the same time I was terrified. He started moaning sin hermano it sounded like, but basically holding out his nubs for money. Pretty scary. After, I got off at La Latina and walked to my grocery store. I waved at the local bar that I frequent which is owned by a Chinese family. The younger son loves NBA and we talk all the time. I’m starting to get recognized by some people around my neighborhood, which is a great feeling. The owners of the Alimentacion down the street waved at me this weekend. I felt home. Anyways, I got off the Metro and headed to El Dia, the super Mercado. I bought 24 eggs, milk, instant coffee (trying to save money), bread, butter and muffins for 8.24 euro. Lately, I’ve been making these massive scrambles with potatoes, onions, zucchini and eggs. (Wheres the Cholula?). Anyways, as I was walking out the cutest little girl at the fruit stand who’s head barely came over the crates of fruit, asked Que Quieres? I said nada and walked by. This little girl was so cute, I had to get something. I bought 2 avocados for way too much money. I got suckered in by the muneca. Whatever, avocados are filling and good for you and remind me of California. Time is flying here. Oh another thing about El Dia. They have this beer there called Especial made by El Dia and it costs 26 euro cents. Heinekin is around 50 cents and a beer at a bar is anywhere from 2.50 to 6 euro. Ive been drinking Especial lately to save money. It doesn’t seem like Spanish people are big beer people, it seems they like wine and rum. Excited to go back to the states and drink some beer con mis amigos. So, now I’m gonna go make a scramble, siesta, then go out and take some pics of the snow. Adios Amigos.