Just an, ordinary day

SO to give you an idea of an ordinary day here in Spain, we get up at about 7:30. By then the son has already gone to the bus stop and the Dad has already left for work. Our Mom honestly doesnt get up until 10:00. Valerie and I have a bathroom of our own complete with sink, shower, toilet and bidet. yes, about every house I've been in has a bidet...interesting... We go down to the kitchen and grab something for breakfast. Most people have hot chocolate and little sweet bread things or cookies. I usually have fruit and yogurt. We then walk to the bus stop about 2 blocks away and catch bus No. 7 Morrañon. It takes about 20 minutes on the bus in a round about way to Plaza Cervantes. We have class until about 2:00 pm. School is in this old building with these HUGE wooden doors that you just push open, there's no handle. Its a school for all the foreign students...yup, I get to be the foreigner over here. We almost always go back to our house for the main mid day meal. The whole family is there and its usually pretty substantial. then, we will sometimes take a siesta or go into madrid or do homework. In Madrid we will usually go to a museum (there's SO many!) or just walk around and enjoy the city. I haven't even seen half of it yet. Its absolutely huge. Dinner is usually soup and fish and we get to bed by about the same time when most of you are getting home from school (there's an 8 hour time difference). What else would you like to know?

We got to visit the temple here in Madrid (although its closed until the end of the month)
And, uh, pigeons are the next largest species that populate this city after storks (cigueñas)
I live out in the boonies, and take two busses to get to school, but my home is wonderful, I love it.

Una Ampolla de Infierno

Okay, sorry, I know that my foot looks disgusting but I just had to show you this beauty. As you can probably gather we have done a whole lot of walking. THis was from after the Real Madrid game. I hadn't planned on wearing my leather boots the whole night while in Madrid, but did, and when I got home to remedy a blister I had been feeling throughout the night, I was greeted by this beautifully plump friend.

YES soccer fans, This is where REAL MADRID plays!

We got to go to a Real Madrid game last week and WOW, it was on fire (and-literally everyone lights up. THe dude beside me rolled about 4 cigarettes during the entire game and smoked his "chocolate" (marajuana). The locals really get into futbol as they call it and it makes for a fun game. This game was against Betis and unfortunately Real Madrid lost, the fans were NOT pleased. I have tried to erase those words from my spanish vocabulary list.

At the REAL MADRID game :)

The facade of the University

Bienvenidos a mi BLOG!

HEY, welcome to my blog!
If you havençt heard already, España is wonderful. My family is wonderful too. The fatherçs name is Paco and the mother is Ana. They have one son who is our age named Javier, or Javi for short. We begin classes tomorrow and my roomate Valerie and I went for a walk to look around a little more. She is hilarious and we are having a great time trying out the language.
I have finally figured out where I can use the internet here at the university. We walked around the city for about an hour and a half....kind of lost, but of course not really. We definitely wont admit to that. Hey, just FYI, I really do know how to use a computer but this new keyboard thing is really throwing me for a loop. So I go to put in my email address to check my email and I cançt ...see what I mean....I cant find the underscore sign anywhere, and the functions are all different as you can see when I went to write cant. So anyways, Içm learning all sort of new things. haha.