Week in review

Soo...had another interesting week here in Madrid. Last weekend was full of Halloween festivities. Saturday night, I went out with Ruth, Carlos, and Lorena (two of Ruth's good friends) to a discoteca. There were a fair amount of people dressed up in costumes, mainly people with blood face paint or strange masks..attempts at "scary" costumes haha. But, anyway, we decided to save our costumes for Sunday. So, we wore normal clothes and basically had a "normal" night out in Madrid.

On Sunday, I had a pretty relaxing day, hung out with a friend for a few hours, and then went to Halloween celebration part 2. We (me, Ruth, Carlos, Aitor (our two neighbors) went to a party at our other friends' apartment. Ruth and I showed up in costume (me in my Hawaiian witch outfit, her as a scary, bloody nurse haha) to find out that "it wasn't a costume party." We were a little embarrassed when we walked into a room of about 10-15 people, all of whom were in normal clothes. However, we decided to embrace our mistake, and convinced everyone else that they were the lame ones for not dressing up. Anyway, it turned out that other people later did show up in costumes, plus some of the people who were originally in normal clothes found "costumes." We eventually left the house party and went out, where we saw lots of strange costumes!! (no other Hawaiian witches though)

Monday was All Saint's Day, so I didn't have school (I know i know, my schedule is too easy). I
slept in, and then went over to Noel's house, where we ate lunch at caught up a bit. We went on a nice long walk afterwards and enjoyed the return of the sunny weather. Eventually, we met up with two other Fulbright girls for a light tapas dinner.

Then, I had my "busy" three day week at school. It was a pretty typical week- had my different conversation classes, helped out with a few lessons in social science classes, had my two private English lessons in the evening etc. On Thursday, to celebrate the end of our "long" week at school, Noel and I got kebabs for lunch (there are a ton of Kebab places in Madrid, for whatever reason, they are really popular here, and I had yet to try one before yesterday!). We sat outside at a park by her house; it was suprisingly warm outside in the afternoon, much much warmer than it is in the morning or at night. Then, I went back to my house and did a little bit of drawing to relax, which was a really nice change of pace. I went to the gym, and then just hung out at my house at night, watching tv with Ruth.

Today, I have to take advantage of my day off and make it to the bank and to the gym. Then, I'm going to my friend Rebecca's house for lunch, so that should be fun. Tonight will probably be another fun night out in Madrid! Anywayyy..thats my week in review. Hasta pronto :)