So you know how people overuse facebook status updates, twitter, etc? Going to the gym. Going to bed. I just breathed. I can add in Madrid behind anything I do and it will simply be awesome...so doesn't apply.
Orientation was today. Our senora walked my housemates and I to the metro. Our first metro ride was yesterday and the people at the desk where we bought our ten day passes terrified us as they kept saying we were going to be robbed with our large purses and naivety. And so we looked even more American clinging to our purses and huddling together.
When we arrived to campus our senora left and we split into groups. Orientation wasn't my favorite. We basically sat in a room for three hours while people repeatedly said make sure you read our SLU school website as they read the website to us about three times quite thoroughly. Met a few more people, finally bought a cell phone I can use in Madrid on my way home. After orientation I lost my roomates so I took the metro BY MYSELF. and didn't look or get lost. I bought a spanish cosmopolitan magazine and casually looked at that with my map open inside of it so I didn't look so touristy. I was so Spanish. So chic. So blending. Haha. Stopped and bought a few things in the neighborhoods by my house. Theres quite a few stores.
I went into Sephora and this gal put makeup on me and tried out new looks. We were trying to chat in Spanish. It was fun!
The campus is very small, there are four buildings. There are two universities (i think?) around us. Its a big university district within a twenty mile radius so there will be a lot of students. Since orientation was very disorganized and our tour guide left us for forty five minutes I went to a bar and had a beer. The bartender gave me free tapas! That was nice. Of course they had soccer playing in the bar.
I will be taking five classes this semester. I may add or drop a few? So far I'm taking three Spanish, one communications, and Flamenco dancing, which will be SO great. I can only imagine my rhythmic mom trying to Flamenco. Terrifying. :) I miss you Mom!!
Last night falling asleep was different? There's a plaza right outside my window with a water fountain that shuts off at midnight and kids that shut off never. There are literally five year olds playing soccer and screaming at one thirty am. I'll get used to drifting off with a small battle playing the background.
Senora cooked dinner again for us tonight which she will do every night. Yesterday we had some kind of tapa with cheese and ham. Tonight I'm pretty sure we had hot dogs with rice and eggs covered in spaghetti sauce with a fancy spanish name. Funny how culture is sometimes.
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