I've gotta get outdoors while the weather's still here; take in the starlight before it disappears

Yeah.. maybe I should have done this on Sunday.. Oh wait, I was busy. Just like every other day I’m here. My bad! (:

So basically, last week was not all that eventful compared to some of the other weeks here. It was kind of weird because I actually had a full week of school for the first time. Yes, I have been here for a month (well, as of tomorrow..) and I have yet to have a full week of classes. It’s been nice, not going to lie. But the lame thing is that I have to make up a few classes on the next few Monday’s. For a situation like this, I would just have to say cualquiers (my bad/quite horrible Spanish translation of whatevs(: )

So, the fun began on Friday in Ávila. This would be a little Spanish city know for its ridiculously large muralla, which is just fancy term for wall, and for being the birthplace of Santa Teresa. We didn’t spend very much time in this city, but I would have to say that going on muralla was the best part. The view of course was spectacular. There are many awesome views here in Spain and I pretty much get to see all of them. Heck yes. I’m not going to be super excited to return to the States and see the view of Utah Valley. It’s just not super exciting compared to this. At all.

Next stop: Salamanca! Though our hotel rooms were ridiculously small especially for 3 people, our location was legit. It was about a good 3-5 minute walk to the Plaza Mayor. And if you want to know anything important about traveling to Spain, you should know that all the Plaza Mayors are where it’s at on the weekends. Oh what do you know, we were there for a Friday when our curfew is extended by an hour and a half. Win. Okay, so the first thing we did there was a little tour around the city. I liked our guide. She was really interesting and funny. We of course visited the Cathedral, the University of Salamanca (4^th oldest university in the world in case you were wondering), and other places as well that I don’t exactly remember.. (:

Now I would like to share a few “for kicks and giggles” facts if you don’t mind. So with the University of Salamanca, they had quite the interesting graduation ceremonies. Each graduating student had the opportunity to have their own corrida de toros (bullfight). If the student succeeded, then they got to put some graffiti on a wall using the blood of the bull and olive oil or something like that. Knowing this just kind of makes me glad that all I have to worry about for my graduation is which hand to shake and not tripping of course.

Another interesting fact about the University. On the outside of the building, there’s this super intricately designed thing, and on it there’s randomly a frog on top of a skull. Because of this little tiny frog, frog souvenirs flood every single gift shop in the city. Not complaining it was kind of convenient for me. And also, because I found the frog, it means that I’ll return to the city someday (at least that’s what the tour guide lady said). Oh darnit(: Not objected to that in the least bit.

So then after our tour finished, we got to shop, go back to hotel, freshen up, and get ready for Telepizza! Definitely one of my new favorite pizza places because of their barbacoa (barbecue) pizza. All forty something of us basically filled up the whole store, and it was pretty sweet. I always love eating as a huge group on the trips. And we even got to eat this really good cake to celebrate all the people’s birthdays that happened in Spain. Delicious.

Now because our curfew is extended on Fridays, we decided we would definitely take advantage of it. After doing our own thing for a short while, we all met up in the exact middle of the Plaza Mayor, talked together, and of course at ice-cream. I would have to say it was my favorite part of the trip. The Plaza was awesome because all the night lights were turned on and the weather was perfect. I could spend a few more weekends like that(:

After talking for a little while, we attempted to go to like a discoteca. Yeah, fail. Even though our curfew is extended, it doesn’t exactly mean we get to participate in all of the fun which normally begins around 1:30-2:00 I think? So basically we spent the night walking around (even through an obnoxious protest thing). Gotta love curfew right?

So Saturday was basically pointless if you ask me. We basically wasted our time in two different cities for kicks and giggles. I would have to say it wasn’t my favorite day here. But hey, at least I got to enjoy the view from the city of toro and have Claudia as my twin for the day!

I guess I can jump to Monday now. Kind of a whatevs day, but after FHE, a small group of us went to Madrid to the Botanical Gardens. Wasn’t a super exciting place and I had bad allergies, but we definitely made it fun by taking a bunch of ridiculous photos.

Tuesday, around 5, Bethany and I met up with a few members from the church and we headed out to Torrejón to go to Parque Europa. Minus the absolutely awful allergies and abnormally high temperature, it was fun. We also took a whole lot of pictures with the random famous things from Europe. And then after, we went to the mall there where I bought some summery type clothes so I won’t die here during the summer in my jeans.

Now for Wednesday, we first went to two Don Quixote places (the windmills place and some inn place? Not entirely sure). But then we finally got to Córdoba which was pretty cool. It used to be the capital for the mulsumanes when they were in control for a little over here in Spain. There’s so much of their architecture here it’s ridiculous. And the Mezquita. Ah-mazing. I kinda get lost in there looking at all the arcs. It’s one thing to see all of the pictures of this place, but another thing to experience it. I would have to say it was worth the 8 euros that BYU spent for me to go see it(:

So then finally we arrived to Sevilla pretty late and then we went searching for dinner. Hermana took us to this “authentic” place that she told us was “worthwhile.” Well, definitely wasn’t my favorite. But it was food. Free food to be exact. Well, free meaning not from my own wallet haha. That of course is the most important thing.

For our second day in Sevilla, we of course had a tour. We didn’t see much but we did go to like the 3^rd oldest cathedral in the world. It was pretty legit, mainly because I was only feet away from one of the most important people in all of history. That person would in fact be Mr. Christopher Columbus. It was kinda a weird feeling honestly. I don’t know how many times I have had to learn about him in my life, and all of the sudden, there he was (in a tomb of course but still), basically right in front of me.

Then of course, free time. Like 6 hours of free time. Score. That meant nap time for me. After eating lunch at McDonald’s, I legit crashed for a good three hours. It was definitely needed. So after eating at Rodilla with Bethany, we met up with our group to go to like a flamenco bar. It was a pretty cool experience. We got drinks and then we watched the show. All of the musicians and dancers were pretty awesome (and some were even attractive;) ). Super talented too. Flamenco dancing looks pretty dang tough if you ask me. Lots of stomping like super fast.

Now the next day, we headed off to the wonderful city of Granada. It’s quite large, so we didn’t get to do much. Though, we did get to go to La Alhambra (red something?). I don’t know. It’s huge. I’m pretty sure we were there for three hours. Lots of cool gardens and buildings. My favorite part of course was looking at the rather large goldfish. They bring me such joy :D

Once we finally finished, it was time for dinner, Dominoes! Woo! I pigged out quite a bit on some delicious pizza and of course burnt the roof of my mouth in the process (and it still hurts, even today! Boo.). After eating, we got to go to the Arabic market. Pretty fun. My shopping experience was pretty short because I ran out of money haha. I bought two pairs of gypsy pants for a pretty darn good price. I definitely owe it all to Hermana. She’s quite the awesome bargainer. (:

Well that’s all of my fun adventures over the past two weeks. I’ve only got a little more than two weeks left now. It’s legit sad. But I’m definitely excited to come back and start my awesome new and improved summer schedule! Sweet action. Well hasta luego mis amigos! Pásenlo bien! 

There's a lot that i don't know; there's a lot that i'm still learning.

Hands down the busiest week here. We had something going on everyday beginning on Monday. Thank goodness for Sundays. Everyone needs a day to crash, right?


Okay, beginning with Monday then. We of course had FHE earlier than usual because we went to the Reina Sofia museum in Madrid to see mainly Guernica by Picasso among other things as well. It was a little more on the strange side if you ask me. But then again, I don't really understand most art in the first place haha. It was interesting for sure, but I definitely thought that some of the art was done by 3rd graders. ah, who knows. But anyways, this was the only picture I could take here. Kinda boring, but once you sit in the chair, it plays music for you(: 

Tuesday, off to Madrid again. But this time, it was super awesome! We left pretty earlier to go buy tickets for the Real Madrid game. After much waiting, the game finally began at 10:00 PM. Wasn't the greatest time for a game, but we had to deal because it's the only game we'll b able to see when we're here. And who wouldn't sacrifice their sleep to see the gorgeous Cristiano Ronaldo play soccer? Definitely not me. Though he seemed like a speck sometimes, definitely worth it. The atmosphere at the game was just super awesome. There was this one section that I swear sung like the entire game. No idea what in the world they said, but it was pretty cool. Wish I could have been down there with them. Well, now I can say that I have witnessed the great Ronaldo play the wonderful sport of soccer, and I'm pretty darn happy to rub that in my father's face(:

Now for miércoles. Madrid. again. After 3 days of traveling to Madrid, I felt like I started to hate the train station even more than I did in the first place. And I didn't even think it was possible. 40 minute walk which means 1 hour and 20 minute round trip. Try that one in heels. Actually, don't. It's a terrible idea. I would know because I did it on this day. We had to dress up super nice to go to Teatro Real to see some flamenco with the group. It was actually pretty fun minus my foot and awful hunger pains. Flamenco is quite amazing just to put that out there. It's like only guitars, clapping, singing, and dancing. Put it all together and it's super crazy cool. The dancers, singers, and musicians were phenomenal! The first part of the show was kinda like a forbidden love story. No words. Just dancing and music. I was a little confused at first, but by the end, it made sense. After intermission was just a bunch of feel good music. Definitely advise y'all to check some flamenco out sometime. 
Also, as Bethany and I were walking back from the train station pretty late, we saw our tuna friends again! And of course, they called us over and we talked to them for maybe 20-30 minutes. Also, they serenaded us again which is always fun(: And then we took pictures with like the hottest guy in their group. Definitely hope I see him around some more before I leave! 

Thursday. No Madrid today, but still had to make a wonderful trip to the train station. at 7:30 in the morning. ick. But hey, it was travel day! (in other words sleep time(: ) So first, we went to La Ciudad Encantada. Not my favorite place in the world. Basically we just walked around this path kinda of thing for about an hour and looked at large animal-shaped rocks. I know. You're kind of jealous. Ha. 

After this oh so exciting place, we went to Cuenca. Superrrrrr pretty city, but not much to do... Basically the Spaniards go there to chill and that's about it. We went to like a few places and then we had free time which meant shop at like the two shops there and then sit on the stairs and watch one of those musicians that plays for pocket change on the side of the road. Pretty entertaining. They played some flamenco stuff pretty decently. I contributed not very much to his little fund for kicks and giggles haha. Oh yeah! I made it on the webcam too! but my father is a horrible iPhone image capturer so i'm a tiny dot(in the picture below, yes that is me next to that white car. Don't I look great?!. woo. But anyways, we were supposed to stay there til like 5, but there was nothing to do so we left at like 3:30 haha. Fine with me! It meant Valencia a lot sooner!

So then came Valencia! Ah-mazing. We first went to the hotel to drop everything off. Our hotel rooms weren't even really bad. It was just Bethany and I, two beds, and a large bathroom with two sinks in a super huge room. Not going to complain there. The only thing that blew was no wifi. Well, there was wifi, but 3 euros for only 30 minutes? Heck no. I'm already broke enough. But anyways, the first night we went in the downtownish area where we ate at some italian restaurant. It was pretty good and it was super fun talking with the people at my table! Next day. First, we went to the Lladró factory where they make a bunch of porcelain stuff and we got to see like the process stuff. It was pretty cool. Lots of detail, but hey, the statues are simply incredible! Of course this one would be my favorite(:

So after lunch at McDonalds, we headed out to the aquarium which apparently is the largest in Europe? (you better be right Zatch). It was pretty neat actually. The first thing we saw was the dolphin show there, which of course is always fun! They did lots of fun tricks. Then we just kind of walked around and saw all of the fun stuff there until it was time to go to the beach! woo(: We had to go later when there wasn't a lot of sun to avoid naked people haha. But it was still fun anyways. I went out super far in the MEDITERRANEAN ocean. Like the farthest I've ever been in my life (Mom and Dad, you'd be so proud). No big deal eh? hehe. So then after the beach, we headed back to the hotel where we changed super fast and headed out to the downtown area once again for some dinner. There I learned that the Spanish version of fast food is fancy bocadillos and fries. Not complaining. It's pretty dang good. 

So our last day in Valencia was pretty fun. We had a tour guide for a little while who took us to the Cathedral among other places. My favorite part was trying the Horchata. It was actually pretty enjoyable until I walked into the market that smelled like raw meat and made me want to puke. 

So once our tour was over we got to go to the beach again! super fun this time and there was actually sun! I kind of got burned. Not too bad because we were only there for two hours hah. I was definitely sad to leave. I miss the beach so much! It's definitely one of my favorite places. Thank goodness for our other trip to the beach in Barcelona! I'm fosure stoked(:

Well mis amigos, that would be the end of my super busy week! And now, as of today kind of, I only have a month left in this beautiful country. Very sad. But part of me misses not being stuffed with food at this very moment and not having super bad allergies. My allergies are absolutely horrible here. I have like super attacks every time I'm outside. Gotta love spring right? Where's that darn Walgreens with fantastic medicine that works when I need it most?! Weren't they supposed to be on every corner? Ugh. Lies. Oh well, pásenlo bien y tengan una buena semana. ¡Nos vemos!

Arise and be all that you dreamed.

Flip dang fools, I ate me some pig blood today. ickkkkkk.


Oh yeah, happy mother's day to the greatest mom out there! I wish you could be with me right now in Spain to celebrate! It's quite the beautiful day(: But thanks for all that you do for me! I definitely would not be here right now if it weren't for you! Thanks! You're the greatest! 


So, I saved a few events that happened this week for this specific entry because all of the events deal with churchy kind of things. Hur we go folks:


A week ago was the first time we attended the church here in Alcalá de Henares. It was kind of weird because all of the meetings are out of order. 1st: Relief Society, Priesthood, and all those other things that normally happen during third hour. So because of the dumb bus, we arrived like 10-15 minutes late to this meeting meaning we sat in the back. There, I could barely hear anything and there was a baby that would not stop crying so I just kinda gave up on listening. Oh well. 2nd: Sunday School, which is the only hour that is the same. We all go to the single adult sunday school. It's located in this superrrr tiny room that we have to fit 40+ people in. Yeah, it can be a little crowded.. 3rd: Sacrament meeting. There's nothing different at all about it except that it's in Spanish and it's the last meeting of the day. I guess they weren't lying when they said the church was like the same all around the world haha.


Basically after that meeting I thought that I was barely even going to talk to these people at all and that I would see them maybe once a week. Ha. I'm normally wrong when I make assumptions like that. You'd think I'd learn. So, Wednesday lots of us attended FHE with the single adults here. It was actually really fun. We kinda played Taboo with movie titles. I chose Titanic and all I had to say was.. Oooh! It's about a boy and a girl and they were... (cue ocean hand motion) and then someone guessed it. I guess I'm better at explaining in Spanish than I thought hahah. After the activity ended, Bethany and I started to leave because I didn't feel good from my hunger pains, but we didn't quite make it home until 11:30. Two of the guys offered to walk us home, so we ended up talking on a street for quite some time. It was really fun. The guy I was talking to, Hugo, is from Paraguay I believe. He's trying to learn English and it's really fun to help him out and stuff. But at times he was really hard to understand. There were lots of Uhhhhh? Cómo? Blank stares etc. People, conversation is like way different than writing Spanish. And it's way harder! I don't think it helps that my ears are like awful too. I feel like everything goes in one ear and out the other no matter how hard I try to listen sometimes! I obviously have lots to learn. I guess that's why I'm here right? But anyways, the ward members here are super nice, really fun to talk to, and helpful with improving our Spanish! I also had the opportunity to speak with a few the following day at Institute, but not as eventful as FHE of course. 


So today, church was kind of normal, but after church was when the fun started. Immediately after church, Bethany and I hopped on the bus to go to Luisa's daughter's house for a barbecue. Yeah, they're slightly different here I guess considering I got tricked into eating pig's blood! Rule of eating in a foreign country: If someone offers you food with a not so familiar name, ask what's in it before eating it. Before eating the pig's blood, I ate something similar to sausage or something in bread, but then they were like - hey! try this thing. It's called this and it's way more delicious than the first. - uhhhh ok? (took a bite) Ummm. I think that's a negative.. - Oh well you just ate pig's blood. Cool eh?  - Uhhh I think I need something to drink now.... But most of the other food was normal. Not so much the salad of anything and everything, but we had ribs and a little bit of steak. Oh yeah, the people there were super nice. Two of her daughter's entire families were there along with her niece. They're quite comical. I think one of her grandsons was wearing my high heels at one point? But yeah, it was definitely a fun way to spend a Sunday afternoon! Definitely will never forget it!


Well, I hope you all have a fantabulous Sunday! And happy mother's day again Trish! Hope your mother's day dinner is a little more tasty than mine was! Peace out my friends (:

Live for today, we'll dream tomorrow. We've got big plans in sight.

Hooray for writing more than one entry in a week right? I sure think so!


andddddd most importantly, HAPPY BIRTHDAY RACHEL SWANSON(: hope you enjoyed spending all day (minus this one time when you had to stay in this locker thing for like two hours. no biggie right?) with me here en españa hahahah. There was quite the amount of explaining that I had to do to tell people why in the world I was carrying around a yellow piggy bank all day and taking a million pictures of it. I would have to say this one is my favorite: 

So traveling days here in españa are pretty interesting. They usually involve sitting on the bus for an hourish maybe and getting some serious neck pain from trying to find a decent way to sleep. Where's that darn pillow when you need it? But anyways, we finally arrive to our destination (in this case for this past weekend we went to Segovia, Manzanares, and Escorial Valle), we normally meet up with a tour guide who takes us to some touristy places (mostly cathedrals, churches, or really anything religious for that matter). Our guide normally finishes around 1:30 - 2:00 and then we get free time! And of course that's the most important part if you ask me. Shopping for souvenirs has become one of my favorite things to do. I have to find the perfect things for people. It's quite the hunt. And then after free time, I get to have neck pain all over again. woot. 


With Segovia, that's pretty much exactly what happened. The main highlights of that trip (of course not the trip where I totally turfed it in front of like pretty much everyone. no way...) were looking at the aqueduct, going to the castle place, and really that's about it. Really, there's not that much in Segovia. It's kind of a typical Spanish city. It has the tourist shops, normal clothes shops, places to eat, quite a bit of extravagant cathedrals, and those cute tiny streets in between buildings that can barely fit cars through them haha. Though it seems to be similar to most cities here, it does have some interesting things that it's famous for. 1. The way they eat their piggies. Basically, they like throwing them in the oven skin and all. Definitely couldn't do that because it still has a face:/ But hey, their love for pigs their helped me find Rachel's present! 2. The aqueduct. flip dang that thing is big. I was told how big it was, but honestly, I just tune out numbers after 1000 that are said in Spanish(: It's quite the amazing structure though. While spending much time looking at it, I couldn't help but think about many people had to put this thing together and how it must have taken forever. Craziness. 3. The walls of their buildings. They're quite intricate. What seems like 99% of the walls there in Segovia have some crazy cool pattern on it. Not entirely sure why, but they're kind of fun to look at! 

Okay, so Manzanares and Escorial Valle were a little different. I'll begin with Escorial. Because we were a little early for our tour at the monastery there, we went to the place where Francisco Franco is buried. It's definitely one of the craziest things I've seen. Like you get to the bridge and look to your right and low and behold there's literally the biggest cross in the world out your window completely surrounded by trees. It's quite the incredible sight, but then you learn that a bunch of slaves were forced to construct it and many died in the process (hence why the place is called valley of the fallen). So it's kinda like ehhhh. incredible and saddish at the same time. 

Also in Escorial is the  crazy huge monastery. And when I say crazy hug, I mean it. Our tour guide said that we walked over a mile and a half on our tour. So this place is split into three parts: the monastery, the museum, and the school. Of course, we only saw the museum part. It's not the most intricate building I've seen, but Rey Felipe II ordered it to be built as a monastery because he was a super religious kind of guy. Also, a lot of the museum is kind of like a cemetery. Basically, I was standing like feet away from Rey Carlos V who lived in like the 1500s. But not just him, there were like a bajillion other royal people too of course. It was definitely a weird thought to have. 


So after the tour of the monastery for two hours, we ate lunch and got on the bus again to go to Manzanares. The only thing that we were there to see was the nifty castle. We didn't exactly have a tour guide so we looked around and took a BUNCH of photos. Twas fun(: The view from the castle was amazing as you can now see. 

Well, those were my adventures for the weekend(: Next weekend I get to go to Valencia and Cuenca. I'm quite stoked because I've been dying to see Valencia since I did my project on it. I'll probably write another entry tomorrow, so until then adios mis amigos!

We're running hot tonight, and it feels so good.

Man, it's only been a week? It seems like I've been here forever. Like where do I even begin?


And hey dad, I am not the worst blogger ever. Thanks for that wonderful email. Oh yeah, and happy birthday again! Hope it was a good one!


So anyways, my week in Spain has been super awesome! Yeah, I'm supposed to be taking classes here and studying, but we've only had to go to class on two different days. SUPER awesome. I actually haven't even been to my literature class yet only my civilization/history class. Definitely not complaining. 


The culture here isn't too different I don't think. Meals I think are the weirdest part. Breakfast is normal, but lunch and dinner are kind of switched. Lunch is at 2:00ish and it's like the biggest meal of the day. After lunch is the best part: La siesta(: AKA nap time. Dude, why can't we do this in the states? Best thing ever! So then, dinner is at like 9:00ish and it's not very big, well, it's not supposed to be. Every meal I eat here at the house is huge. Luisa thinks that we need lots of food. For instance, dinner tonight: two ham sandwiches, corn, bread, 2 strawberries, and a piece of cheese. After that, she was still offering us more. I think I might just puke. I definitely would not be surprised if I came back to the states 100lbs heavier. And for the most part, I can deal with eating some pretty weird stuff that she has given us, but not the paella. That's been the only thing that I have refused to eat. The smell of sea food kinda makes me sick, and the little crayfish lookin' thing had eyes! I can't eat anything with eyes that I can see on my plate! Thank goodness for the Burger King Luisa bought us also haha.


So since there hasn't been much class, there's been a lot of free time. Lots of sightseeing, shopping of course, messing around, etc. Normally we meet up as a group somewhere and try to do something fun. One day we went sightseeing around Alcalá de Henares, went to Madrid for the day, ate churros and chocolate(pretty dang delicious), and today I went to Alcalá Magna(mall) with some friends. Sometimes it seems like I'm on vacation a lot here(: 


So far we've traveled legitly(hope some of my friends appreciate the vocab use there) as a group twice. Once to Madrid and once to Toledo. Pretty fun. We mainly went to Madrid to go to El Prado (super ridiculously huge art museum) because it was free at a certain time. We spent like two hours there and Bethany and I still didn't see everything. Now in Toledo, we traveled there in a big bus, and there we met our tour guide. She took us pretty much to every church there it seemed like. My favorite part was definitely when we got to take pictures of the awesome view (in my facebook album(: ) Seeing it in person is like a million times better than the picture. It was truly incredible. Then after our tour guide left, we had about 2 hours of free time which = shopping time(: It was definitely a fun way to spend a Saturday.


Okay, so major highlight of my week was my experiences with the tuna bands. Definitely experiences of a lifetime. So the adventures began Friday night. The group just finished eating churros and chocolate and half of us went to a dance while the other half of us went to the parade thing (it definitely just took me a minute to think of the word because we only called it the desfile). But anyways, earlier that week we meet a member of the local tuna band (Ignacio/Taxi) who told us that we could participate in the desfile. So when the group split, the desfile group met up with Ignacio, he took a bunch of us up to the balcony of a shop on Calle Mayor where the 6 tuna bands would come "serenade" us. Man, the view of the place was fantastic. I have pictures on my phone that i will be able to put on facebook when I return(: So when the desfile began, tuna bands started playing songs all down Calle Mayor. They each had to make stops at certain places and they would play a few songs and then continue. Their music was pretty awesome and their voices were incredible. There was a song that they all played because it was about the town that I'm living in, and it pretty much gets stuck in my head at least once a day. No lie. Eventually, the parade ended and we met up with the people that were sitting below. Bethany and I decided to leave because we had to wake up early the next day to go to Toledo, but that didn't happen for quite some time. First, we ran into the tuna band from Linares (kinda by Andalucía). They sang a song for us, danced with us, and of course flirted with us. Ohhhh Spanish men. I'm sure a bunch of them were more than 10 years older than us. Creepy, but hilarious and fun. Then, we were like "Oh we've gotta go, we've got to wake up early tomorrow" (en español claro). But then we ran into another group from Portugal. Immediately they began to speak English to us and it was hard to keep the conversation in Spanish. Oh well. Well then, they too began to sing us a song and let us wear their little cape things with the patches. This group was a lot younger than the previous and a lot less creepy haha. So same conversation again, "we gotta go" etc. That was Friday night. Saturday after Toledo, we found the same group from Linares as we were walking back from the train station. We began to talk and they were like "hey! we're going to perform at this theater place, come!" So we did. At first, we couldn't get in because we didn't have tickets, but then we found Ignacio who gave us tickets for some pretty decent seats without paying any money. Score. The group we were with was the first or second one to go, so we left after the third or fourth band. We saw the group again and they were quite drunk which meant that there was some pretty interesting conversation going on. Most of it I couldn't even understand. People around where they are from speak ridiculous, impossible Spanish. Some of them definitely laughed when I couldn't understand them sometimes. But anyways, that was our adventures with the tuna bands. I'm definitely never going to forget it. 


Really, Spain is great, especially Alcalá de Henares. It's like a small town but not. There's lots to do, great weather (ha to those is utah right now :P), and super friendly people. At times, I'm kinda like: "I never want to leave," "This place is incredible," and "Muchachos guapos(:" but other times: "I think I might die if I eat ham or take in some good ole cigarette smoke again," "I have to walk to the train station again?" "Where's that dang Target when I need it most?" or "I want to use my American dollars again!" I've concluded that it's best to stay in the U.S. at least for now, but I'm glad that I can have this experience. It's definitely been a blessing! (¡gracias a mis padres por supuesto!) I'll try to be a better blogger this time. Hope you've enjoyed(: hasta luego mis amigos. 


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