So here I go, continuing to compile the journal entries I wrote randomly in different notebooks…Sorry, none of this has been reread or edited! Just wanted to get it in one place before I forget it all :)
Bday party!
So Leigh, Cristina and our other friend Encarni (in English class with Cristina) all had a birthday around the same time. Laigh and I wanted to do something and we wanted to have a birthday cake for Leigh anyway so I ended up ordering one with all their names on it (all chocolate, for Leigh) Leigh, little miss art major, crafted three birthday hats and we met them at a bar. We surprised them with the hats and cake. Encarni and Cristina ar so much fun, they were excited and put the hats on right away (Cristina even walked up to the bar to order with hers on!) Then, because we couldn’t eat food we brought in the bar, after a drink and a few tapas we went to find a place to eat the cake. We decided beside the third biggest cathedral in the world would be a good place! :) So we chose a bench in the plaza right behind “la cathedral” and lit the candles and sang right there! The cake was delicious and we had a lot of fun.
We had a weekend trip to
The rest of the trip was ok, the
Hanging out with Cristina….
One day Cristina invited me to go to the beach with her, her boyfriend and some of his friends from work. It was really fun and really different, because I was the only American! So some times it was embarrassing when I couldn’t understand stuff or didn’t know what was going on. But I never had much problem when they addressed me, I normally could understand and answer. We all piled in his friend’s little car, five of us, and got stuck in traffic…me and Cristina reviewed Spanish vocabulary :) When we got there we went to meet their friend at his condo, oh and they were also all much older than me…funny…we had some tapas and then went to the beach…hung out there for a while…I started eating my bocadillo from Magdalena, and they were like what are you doing? It’s too early for lunch! (it was after 2 at least) And the guy who drove us up there had already made everyone sandwiches, including me, which was really nice. So I ate some of both. We didn’t swim, I didn’t want to and cristina didn’t either, so we just laid out and then took a walk on the beach. Afterward we went to see their friend’s new apartment that he just bought, and then went out to eat. They told me it was all food from “the pueblo”, because we were kinda out in the country. So they said the food was all natural and better. It was kinda a joke though because whenever something new would be brought out they would be like look Laura, this is bread from the pueblo!! Or whatever it was… I ate so much. The were all so nice because they paid for it and made sure I tried everything. Kinda looked at me weird when I didn’t actually drink the shot they had gotten for everyone, but they didn’t give me a hard time. We were tired on the way back, but still sang to some music in the car :)
Then, Cristina and Encarni invited Leigh and I to go to the Feria in
At about 3 am Cristina’s cousin was still going strong but Leigh and I were getting tired, so we left. Encarni had invited us to stay at a cabin with her friend who lived outside the city (Cristina didn’t have enough room for the both of us) so we went with her. Really super random…ended up in a little cabin in the middle of the Spanish countryside…now keep in mind, Encarni is basically a hippie… so we were there with her and her boyfriend and their friend (who had a mullet, though that’s not as uncommon in Spain) and we just kinda hung out the next day because the weather wasn’t really good enough to go to the beach. They cooked us a delicious lunch…then the guys smoked something questionable…but ya know, what can you do? They were very hospitable.
Then Cristina came and picked us up and took us back to
A few weeks later my friend from high school, Amber, came to stay in
The last night was fun, we had a party at CC-CS and I had to tell Cristina bye…almost cried…she gave me some earrings from a ceramics place we had visited together and a book with a really nice note in it… After we left the party a group of us Americans went and had churros and chocolate for the last time at the churros stand, stepped into a local bar for a little bit, and then walked around town one last time and took lots of crazy pictures, like at the river, the cathedral, and in front of the bullring. It was a really fun but virtually sleepless night. And Amber and I were off to
So, as far as I know, this is it.