sorry, i haven't writtin in a while, i've been relatively busy. My mom came to visit last week which was aweome and a half, we did so much fun stuff, i can't even believe it!
she got here on a friday -- the night before i got trashed and a half and then had to get up at six to catch the train to meet her in madrid! so we stayed in a little hostel/apartment place right in the center of madrid where we spent about three days...it was so sweet, Madrid is such a cool huge city. We went to the museums like the Prado which has stuff from the great spanish painters like goya, el greco, murillo and velasquez (amazing!) and the Thyssen which has some of the best works from all kinds of artists like picasso, van gogh, monet, dahli, warhol, georgia o'keefe, chagall it was insane to actually see all that crap, oh also in the thyssen they had some pieces that dated back to like 200 ad...it was insane!
also in madrid we visted plaza mayor, and ate at the worlds oldest restaurant called "el Botin" i ate a roasted suckling pig (cuchinillo), it was delicious! and since madrid has it's own broadway called Gran Via, we saw two musicals; La Bella Y La Bestia, and JesusCristo Superstar...both sooo amazing and fun to watch!
from madrid we rented a car and drove to sevilla (which took 5 hours!!) which was cool cuz we got to see alot of the country side and the place where don quixote supposedly lived, also we ate at a parador (historical building turned hotel) where there was the most amazing buffet that i've ever had in my entire life, it was amazing!
so my mom got to meet my senora, and they loved eachother, especially since my mom brought all kinds of presents! also in sevilla we met up with my third grade teacher Mrs. Valdez, who saw my mom on the plane and they got to talking or whatever, so we saw a flamenco show for her birthday...which was one of the best things that i've done since i've been here, it was sooooo amazing, especially since i'm learning sevillanas, it was really fun to see it in real life put to music (when i do it it's just kind of retarded), also in sevilla my mom stayed in the most historical neighbor hood in town where we got lost and i drove the rental car very erratically (tiny ass streets + lots of people + my driving = disaster) she also sat in on one of my classes cuz i had to go in to take some tests, and afterwards we got lunch and drunk off wine in the middle of the day! boy does my mom know how to vacation!
we also managed to take a trip to jerez de la frontera to see some dancing horses, which was pretty cool, we also got horrendously lost in jerez (like two feet away from the horse place) but ended up finding this delicous restaurant that had like the best steak and cuscus ever, also one day we drove to algeciras, a little port town on the gibraltar straight, where we crossed over to one of the last remaining spanish colonies (in morroco) where we drove around for a while and ate lunch...then we got retardedly lost on the way back (if you haven't noticed, there was alot of lost going on)
sooo, finally my mom came with us on a school trip that we took to granada, where we saw the alhambra and also got to hit up some arabic baths (beyond awesomeness) then from there we dumped the rental car (got lost) and took the train back to madrid..then my mommy had to leave the next day...que triste!
lastly, i rolled a joint and went to the modern art museum (Reina Sofia) after i saw my mom off...so i checked out guernica and a bunch more picasso's and dahli's high out of my mind and just stared at them for like three hours...and missed my train back to sevilla, so i had to buy a whole new ticket (like a hundred american dollars!) which was lame but definitely worth it.
so since then things have been relatively tame, just goin to school, got my grades back, looks like i have a pretty decent chance of getting all A's, ojala...our school set up a thanksgiving dinner where we all dressed up and stuffed our faces, it was pretty good, but the yams were kinda wierd and the stuffing was made with ground beef instead of bread...real wierd...the rest was awesome tho, plus it was a really fun time! we went to a little club after and danced for a while too.
lets see yesterday i went to the museum early and got high with carson before we checked out the artes and costumbes then i went home and slept like all day and didn't do anything but play cake mania all night...that was boring...but tonight our spanish friend is making us dinner and we are going to go watch a futbol game (boring) before that...after i think we're gonna go out...soo that should be fun...
we're also trying to get a trip to barcelona organized, which would be really fun before i leave...and i'm leaving sooo soon...boo hoo..it'll be nice to enjoy the comforts of home, but i am getting so adjusted to living here and i'm really just starting to get comfortable here, i am having such a good time and doing so many things that i never thought i would be doing in a million years, and it really just makes me think. it makes me wonder what is actually possible, if i am doing all these crazy unexpected things now, what could i be doing within the next few years, there are so many oppurtunities open to me, it's so exciting and nervewracking to catch just a tiny glimmer of what's out there. I can't wait to find out
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