I have discovered the old world

Soooooo...where to begin...i'm here to write about my great adventure...which so far has been pretty great...i guess i'll just start with coming over here

the flight itself wasn't that grueling, in fact it passed by rather quickly and uneventfull which is never the case when i fly...the real drama actually happened when me and jackie got to madrid and decided to follow through with our plan to take the metro from the madrid airport to the madrid trainstation...bad idea, especially considering the fact that we were both carrying about 70 pounds worth of crap which we had to lug up and down endless stairways and get off and on at at least four different metro stops...by the time we finally got on the damn train i was so exhausted that i passed out instantly in my seat...i didn't even get to see any of the spanish country side..whatever...that was horrible..we're getting a cab next time

so the first day i got here was mainly spent unpacking, sleeping and eating...it was pretty uneventful, but the day after that we had our orientation at the school...immediately i could tell that the group of kids in my program all seem really cool and laid back and easy to get along with..all of them were really friendly and approachable and we were all really excited to be there...not only that but everyone was working on plans to go out and party that night..woo hoo, i love these peeps already!

soo, blah blah blah, i got a cell phone, i checked out my class schedule, met some kids and we all made plans to meet back at the school to go out that night...about a million kids showed up and we were in the hugest group ever...we started walking vaguely hoping to find a place called aqua that supposedly had bikini-clad gals swimming around in a tank...but as we walked we passed bars and pretty much at each bar our numbers got smaller...i guess some of us were more ambitious than others because we treked on and on until there was only a faithful six of us...me, ron, sydney, leilani, jackie (who's roommate ditched her, taking the keys to their place with her) and my roommate annie (who didn't really want to go on...but i convinced). we never ended up getting to aqua, but we did got to several other places instead, enjoying drinks and finally ending up back at one of the first bars where we started losing people, we got to see a fair amount of the city and we got to know eachother all a little better, it was f-ing sweet if i do say so myself....btw..jackie slept in the park that night(she is now officially a bum)

and now...wowo...i have done alot of other shit since then already, considering that that was two weeks ago...i don't know if i can even really get into what else i have been doing...

let's see, my classes have been pretty cool...every monday and wednesday i have three classes in the morning which are long as hell, pretty interesting, but too long and early to be enjoyable...then i go home for lunch everyday at 2:30 (the normal spanish time for lunch..they eat at wierd times)then i go back at 5 (after siesta) for my last class, spanish, which i love, it's really the only one that's much worth my time at this point cuz i've really been learning alot...then i kind of wander around or maybe go get tapas with jackie and then i have dinner at 9...after dinner i usually relax and get ready and then go out at about 11:30 or midnight(most bars don't even get hoppin until at least two!) so then i party and drink which costs me an assload and come home at like four in the morning with my feet and legs burning and passout hardcore...

did i mention that the school is almost a half an hour away from my house, so i end up walking a minimum of two hours on school days! i have been walking non-stop since i've been here(i've probably walked more in the last two weeks than i have in the last two years), but i still cant help thinking that i'll probably gain weight anyways...the meals that we have are usually really huge, especially at lunch where there's often more than two courses and our senora force feeds us fruit down our throats(me and annie have been getting better at asking for less food tho)...the lunch food is really really yummy (she makes everything with fresh ingredients) but the wierd eating schedules leaves me wanting to snack between meals hardcore especially since i'm always with jackie who just has to eat every few hours, so we always get tapas (little dishes) at like six even tho there's no where that has kitchens open at that time (wierd) we usually end up getting cold tapas if we can find anywhere with food (potato salad, and crap like that)...so then by dinner, which for some reason is often way gross and largely consisting of pizza and hot dogs, i'm not that hungry (which is lucky i guess cuz a person can only eat so much hot dog-pizza)..but then when i go out till four a.m. i get hungry again and there isn't anything very substantial left in my stomach...lame...but anyways, i've been doing crunches everyday before lunch which will hopefull help with my fat crisis, maybe all the crazy walking will help too

sooo...i miss my mom, i miss a comfortable bed, i miss being in a house where i can use as much toilet paper as i want, i miss house parties, i miss my friends, I MISS WEED, and i miss guys that really mean it when they say they don't know how to dance

i hate the euro and i hate that everything costs money

but i love the time table here, i love my new puppy diego (even tho he barfed on my foot), i love tinto verano(wine + fanta), i love tapas, i love being in a new place and discovering new things, i love smoking wherever i want, i love having my meals prepared for me everyday(unless it's hotdogs and pizza), i love meeting hot spanish men, and i love partying all night long and sleeping all day