re-cap

I've been neglecting blogging. Let's see what has happened...

• Monday I met my Intercambio María for the first time! We had coffee and chatted. An intercambio is when once person is native Spanish and is learning english, and I am the opposite, so we meet up and talk! I would talk in Spanish and she would talk in English. She is 22 and goes to the Universidad de Alcalá. It's really cool for us to be able to help each other!
• Aunt Helen was in Madrid! One of Sara's best friends has an aunt that is a flight attendant and happens to travel to Madrid often. Sara & I went to Madrid both Monday and Tuesday and had tapas and dinner with Aunt Helen! It was so refreshing to be around a nice Mom! 
• I met up with friends for tapas around the neighborhood a few times.
• I had Paella for the first time and it was soooo good!
• School isn't as easy as I thought. But it is nice being able to solely focus on Spanish for a semester!
• Field trip to El Pardo y El escorial. El Pardo is where Franco and a bunch of important Kings lived. I loved the decor. Very Anthropologie. El escorial had this room (I forgot what it is called) where a handful of Spanish Kings and Queens are buried. A room with their actual tombs. It was kind of strange. I don't know how many of these all Spanish tours I can understand! My attention span fades pretty quickly in English so this is a whole new ball park.
• Some of us went to the Mexican restaurant. It was so American! Delish. 
• Went to the Reina Sofia. Madrid's Modern Art Museum. The main piece is Picasso's Guernica. It was pretty big and people were swarming. Photo's weren't allowed but I snagged one, sorry Pablo.
• Highlight: Sara, Nikki, Amy and I decided to go to a Real Madrid game and we did and we won!!! We got nose-bleed tickets, as in no one was sitting behind us! We played Levante and won 2-0. It was insane! Before the game we went into a bar outside the stadium because we had time to kill and met a couple from Atlanta! It was strange seeing Southerners in the middle of Spaniards and at that moment I realized how much I stick out. Oh well.