Churros at 06:00? Sure, why not.

¡Hola!

Last Saturday night was so much fun!  Adi and I met up around 23:30 and met the girls in Triana at Naomi’s apartment (her señora was out of town for the weekend).  We pre-gamed with some rum and coke and hung out there for a while, and then walked about twenty minutes to Buddha, a discoteca.  We met up with some other friends while we were waiting in line for thirty minutes, at two in the morning.  After paying an eight euro cover, we got free access to all three floors, each with a different theme, bar, and DJ.  IT WAS SO COOL!  We danced, drank, and just had an overall amazing time.  We left around six am and got churros con chocolate, and then Adi and I split a taxi back home.  Was asleep by 07:30.  Successful evening!  Almost made it to sunrise…

This week we started classes, and here are my classes:

European Corporate Organization

Services Management   My favorite so far!  The teacher is so much fun.  It’s a very hands-on class, which I really like.  The first day he told us if we start to doze off in class, he will give us free coffee, and if that doesn’t work, he has this little earpiece with something similar to a gyroscope (from my guessing) that he will put on your ear, and if your head moves around a lot (if you are starting to sleep in class), it makes an obnoxious beeping noise.  So funny when he demonstrated it!  We also tell chistes verdes, or sexual jokes every day – he wants us to not only learn academically, but also cultural trends and fun things.  He plans to bring in Spaniards around our age for us to meet Spaniards, too, which is really nice.

Advanced Spanish Business Writing – this is the required Spanish course I have to take.  I was not looking forward to it at all, but it shouldn’t be hard conceptually, just a lot of work.  The teacher is so much fun too.  He also plans for us to meet with Spaniards.  Similar to my other teacher, he is teaching us funny trends and social cues and jokes and phrases too, which is so much fun.

Internship (Práctica) – Not only do we have to complete 100 hours of work with our companies, we have to take an hour and a half class once a week, all leading up to a 15 minutes presentation and a 10-page paper culminating our experiences working in Spain.  Shouldn’t be bad, just a pain.

This weekend, I don’t have much work to do at all, which is nice.  Saturday we are taking a day trip to Cadiz, with our program.  I just bought a train ticket to go back the following weekend, for Carnaval.  We got an afternoon train on Saturday and a returning train at 07:55am on Sunday morning.  Carnaval in Cadiz is like Mardi Gras, so we will be up all night enjoying ourselves, so there’s no point in paying for a room that night.  Going to be a lot of fun!  I just need to find a costume now…

Speaking of traveling, I just bought a ticket to Paris with Miriam and Naomi (working on convincing Adi to come) and a bunch of Miriam’s girlfriends.  We are going for five days, four nights at the end of February.  Going to be a lot of fun!

Tonight I’m going to a flamenco show and hopefully will be able to learn a little bit!  I’m meeting with my company at noon tomorrow to get a tour of the office and get a better idea of what I will be doing there, so I don’t want to stay out too late tonight.

¡Adiós!