Busy Weekend

Maloneys the exact size. Well I had a great weekend here in Madrid. Friday night I went out to Maloneys with Nerea and got home around 430am. This is normal here, slept until 2:30pm the next way. I felt really weird when I woke up. Saturday I ate some Telepizza (The Dominos of Spain) and then got ready for La Noche en Blanco which is a huge festival here in Madird. All of Central Madrid is ipen to the public, so people can visit all the museums and monuments for free. They light up the whole ctiy and it is absolutely beautiful. I walked about 30 mins into the city with my sister and a couple of her friends to meet up with some of the American Exchange students from Madrid. Turns out we had to wait a hour for them to meet up with us because there was so many people. My sister went back to Maloneys and three of here friends and I met up with the exchange students and showed them back to Maloneys. Once again I got home at 5am and slept till 3pm. Sunday was the big day! Futbol!!!!! At about 5:30 Nerea and I joined 5 other friends and drove the the 2nd biggest soccer stadium in the world Real Madrid! The first biggest is in Barcelona-which just so happens to be Real Madrid's number one rivalry.

Real Madrid played a team called Xerez-which is where my host Mom is from. Who by the way I just recently went to lunch with, she is a very sweet lady and I will be visiting her a lot this year. My first visit is in two weeks. But anyways back to the soccer scene, Real Madrid won 5-0 and scored 4 goals in the last 20 mins it was a great game. Just being in a stadium that holds 90,000 people cheering for soccer gave me goosebumps. It was remarkable. People really do scream GOALL!!!! haha Soccer is HUGE here. People eat, drink and breathe it. Its pretty much the only thing in the news. And I am slowly but surely becoming a huge fan as well.

Other than that school is my new interest. Well kinda. I take a public bus at 800 in the morning 7 stops and walk about 8 blocks to an instituto (6th grade-12 grade) called San Juan Bautista. I take six classes every day that consist of spanish grammar, english, philosophy, french 2, history of spain, geography and economics. Its crazy. As of now I don't understand much, so I usually just read or study spanish. I have made a couple girl friends but the guys just stare at me. Its pretty funny.

Some more funny things about this amazing place:

1.Everything in my school is green, every shade.

2. The girl's toilets in my school don't have toilet seats.

3. Students have to buy all their books for school here.

4. The littlest things make my day here, just like the other day I met Nerea's good friend, Borja's dog. His name is Torr and hes a huge white fluffy dog with diabetes. I absolutely loved hanging out with him.

5. School here is waaay harder than the US. Students don't really go to school to be social, they go to study.

I have no plans for the weekend, but I'm sure something will come up. I am looking forward to going to Xerez on Oct 1. Hope all is well.

Muchos Besos