This week has been very very very busy. I was wicked sick beginning on sunday night until about thursday but I am feeling better now. School this week was busy, had 2 midterms on wednesday, PR and Spanish.
My spanish midterm was RIDICULES, we had literally an hour and 15 minutes to finish 12 pages of grammar, vocab, reading comp & essay writing..all in spanish.. MISERABLE. My PR midterm wasn't too bad.
In bio this week we went to "Faunia" which is the zoo here in Madrid, it was really cool they had a lot of cute animals (did i really just say animals were cute?..someone feel my head) like penguins and lemurs, etc. All I kept thinking about was how Lemurs don't have to go to college or work all they have to do is eat and play all day. Why can't I be a lemur???
The weather has been absolutely gorgeous here, on thursday I went walking with my Spanish friend Marcos who showed me a bunch of different cool places all over Madrid that I hadn't seen before. Then thursday night I went out with Nery and some friends who live over at the other residencia near Retiro Park. We went to this club joy. It was fun, I literally died. I am no longer allowed to drink hard alcohol. When I was waiting in line to get into the club I was talking to this boy who said he was from Boston, turns out he is from Weston and is NEIGHBORS with one of my friends who lives there... What a small world.
Anyways.. After thursday I spent my entire friday puking my brains out until about 430pm when I finally got up and decided to go to Starbucks to get a little work done. That failed miserably because I literally just sat there drinking my tea staring at my computer because I could not think straight.
Today I woke up early and went hiking in el cotos with some kids from school. It was really fun and beautiful, only problem was there was so much snow and we were all hiking in sneakers...not the brightest bunch... I had fun though. Since I got home I have been trying to study for my acct midterm which I am so nervous for. I also have a bio midterm but I haven't even looked at the stuff yet. Hopefully I do well.
Mommy arrives tomorrow! I am so excited its not even funny!!! Can't wait to get out of baradas and into some 5 star hotels please!! This week we are going to barcelona, tuesday to wednesday then exploring madrid on thursday and friday then I leave for Italy for 10 days on saturday. I CANNOT WAIT. i can;t believe I have a 16 day spring break. #fakelife.
I'm really tired but I am trying to force myself to study. I don't even care. UghHHHHHHHH
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Granada
The past week has been pretty low key around here, just been going to school, dance class & hanging around Baradas. I really wanted to get out of Madrid for the weekend so we got a few people together and took the bus to Granada.
It was a really fun weekend, we stayed in a hostel right across the street from the Alhambra which was a pretty cool location because it was less than a 15 minute walk to the center of the town where everything else was. Our hostel situation was pretty funny, it was Kay, Kristen, Max, Tommy and a new friend from school Raul all in this little room with a set of bunk beds, 2 smaller beds and one full size bed. It was funny but we made it work.
On the first day of our weekend adventure we explored downtown. I went into a bunch of different little shops that had lots of different arab trinkets and stuff like that. I got a cute pair of earrings. Later on we got boxes of wine and drank on the streets then went to a hookah bar.
Yesterday we did a lot of exploring, we went up to the gypsy caves, but they were closed. The main attraction was obviously the Alhambra which was absolutely gorgeous. The best part of the weekend though was the picture we took at the Alhambra. They had this little store that was taking professional dress up pictures like the ones they have in the US where you dress up like old fashion cowboys and indians, but here you dress up like arabs.... I have never laughed so hard in my entire life.
Last night I was not feeling too good I know I am getting sick , no bueno. but we went out for dinner and went to another hookah bar then went to bed so we could wake up for our 8am wakeup call to truck back to Madrid.
This week is the beginning of Mid terms, I am absolutely dreading this. I can't get myself to do any work or concentrate on studying. Oh welll...
On tuesday Andria & I are going to the Mike Posner concert! that's something to look forward too besides the midterms I have on wednesday.
Mommy's coming this weekend! I am so excited. I can't wait to see her and finally get out of Baradas for a week. My back has been killing me from the beds, they are absolutely horrendous, I can't fall asleep at night because I am in so much pain.
I am extremely tired right now so instead of studying or doing homework I'm going to take a nap or go to bed.
It was a really fun weekend, we stayed in a hostel right across the street from the Alhambra which was a pretty cool location because it was less than a 15 minute walk to the center of the town where everything else was. Our hostel situation was pretty funny, it was Kay, Kristen, Max, Tommy and a new friend from school Raul all in this little room with a set of bunk beds, 2 smaller beds and one full size bed. It was funny but we made it work.
On the first day of our weekend adventure we explored downtown. I went into a bunch of different little shops that had lots of different arab trinkets and stuff like that. I got a cute pair of earrings. Later on we got boxes of wine and drank on the streets then went to a hookah bar.
Yesterday we did a lot of exploring, we went up to the gypsy caves, but they were closed. The main attraction was obviously the Alhambra which was absolutely gorgeous. The best part of the weekend though was the picture we took at the Alhambra. They had this little store that was taking professional dress up pictures like the ones they have in the US where you dress up like old fashion cowboys and indians, but here you dress up like arabs.... I have never laughed so hard in my entire life.
Last night I was not feeling too good I know I am getting sick , no bueno. but we went out for dinner and went to another hookah bar then went to bed so we could wake up for our 8am wakeup call to truck back to Madrid.
This week is the beginning of Mid terms, I am absolutely dreading this. I can't get myself to do any work or concentrate on studying. Oh welll...
On tuesday Andria & I are going to the Mike Posner concert! that's something to look forward too besides the midterms I have on wednesday.
Mommy's coming this weekend! I am so excited. I can't wait to see her and finally get out of Baradas for a week. My back has been killing me from the beds, they are absolutely horrendous, I can't fall asleep at night because I am in so much pain.
I am extremely tired right now so instead of studying or doing homework I'm going to take a nap or go to bed.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
well well well
the rest of the weekend was pretty unproductive, I lazily laid around baradas on saturday and sunday.
Saturday night we went to BOOM this club that our friend was djing at, everyone from Suffolk was there, it was a fun night.
We booked our spring break! we are officially going to Rome, Florence, Venice and Milan. I am super excited and cannot wait.
I also can't wait for my mommy to get here next weekend! I'm starting to feel a little America sick, but I am just convinced that it's from a chemical imbalance that I am having because I haven't been able to go to the gym.
Today I'm gunna go to CEU and try to work out after the dance class, let's see how that goes.
Not much to say today, just feeling a little down.
Saturday night we went to BOOM this club that our friend was djing at, everyone from Suffolk was there, it was a fun night.
We booked our spring break! we are officially going to Rome, Florence, Venice and Milan. I am super excited and cannot wait.
I also can't wait for my mommy to get here next weekend! I'm starting to feel a little America sick, but I am just convinced that it's from a chemical imbalance that I am having because I haven't been able to go to the gym.
Today I'm gunna go to CEU and try to work out after the dance class, let's see how that goes.
Not much to say today, just feeling a little down.
Friday, February 11, 2011
I live in Madrid, I go to school 2x a week in a box, I live in a room the size of a janitors close & sleep toe to toe w/ my best friend in a building with randos who barely speak english, I drink 50 cent boxes of wine, I don't go to the gym, I eat too much chocolate & not enough real food, I'm addicted to caffeine & I stay up way too late, I don't text all day and I rarely take a warm shower- & I like it
It's been a pretty busy week with school around here. I have a lot of stuff due monday and I'm not really sure why because I feel like I haven't learned anything. This week I have actually been pretty productive, not sleeping the day away and getting up at a normal hour and getting stuff done. The other day when we didn't have school Andria & I woke up at 10, worked out and stayed on a schedule throughout the whole day. Pretty impressive if you ask me. I feel like I haven't had structure in my life the past month. Wednesday was a full day of school again but yesterday we had the day off and I felt free productive.
I woke up around 10, worked out then Tommy & I walked to meet Ryan and Max to take a dance class at CEU (another university here). It was very fun, we learned the cha cha, swing, and another one I forget. We're going to take the class every tuesday and thursday then go out dancing eventually.Soo that's exciting!
Last night we went to a very popular SEVEN FLOOR club called Kapital. It was wild. There are 7 balcony floors that open up to a gianormous dance floor that blows down cold air every 10 minutes or so that coools down the dance floor because there are so many people. They also have dancers on this huge stage and on the balconies overlooking the floor as well. Although everyone basically died because we dipped into the hard alcohol for the pregame for the first time in a month (bad idea). I held my own and stayed out and danced the night away with Ryan and Joe.
Today I need to do some more work and relax.
Happy 1 month in Spain to me.
I woke up around 10, worked out then Tommy & I walked to meet Ryan and Max to take a dance class at CEU (another university here). It was very fun, we learned the cha cha, swing, and another one I forget. We're going to take the class every tuesday and thursday then go out dancing eventually.Soo that's exciting!
Last night we went to a very popular SEVEN FLOOR club called Kapital. It was wild. There are 7 balcony floors that open up to a gianormous dance floor that blows down cold air every 10 minutes or so that coools down the dance floor because there are so many people. They also have dancers on this huge stage and on the balconies overlooking the floor as well. Although everyone basically died because we dipped into the hard alcohol for the pregame for the first time in a month (bad idea). I held my own and stayed out and danced the night away with Ryan and Joe.
Today I need to do some more work and relax.
Happy 1 month in Spain to me.
Monday, February 7, 2011
Monday Morning Epiphanies
So as I have been obnoxiously blogging about, I have class ALL DAY on mondays from 10:45-9pm, but luckily for me my 3 and a half hour bio lab was cancelled so I got to walk home to get lunch and take a nap (amen to that, whoever thought it was a good idea to stay out til 4am watching the Super Bowl should be smacked, aka me) On my walk home I started thinking about so many things. Since I've been here it has brought many different things to my attention that I thought about before but never really acted on.
Before I left for Madrid I was skeptical, exciting, scared, and a little freaked out about leaving. I had so many mixed emotions I couldn't even control myself. I had never been away from my family for a long period of time, granted I do live at school at home but it is literally 15 minutes away, I am constantly talking to my mother and my father's in the city basically once a week for work and stops by and says hi. So this is really my first time alone. It's funny because I feel a lot better off than I thought I was going to be. Being here makes me appreciate my family and realize that I can go far away and do something that really makes me happy and that they will be there when I get back.
The more I think about it I honestly have not been as happy of a person as I can be back in Boston, yes I love school and I love my friends but I feel like there is so much more to life than what I have been doing. There is so much I want to see and experience in the world and I feel the NEED to do it. I know I am only 19 years old but when I look get older and look back on being young I want to have something to show for it not just going to college, staying local and getting a job. I have this itch to see everything and go everywhere or move and meet tons of new people. I kind of lost myself over the past year and a half, didn't really have a hobby, would just go to work, school, the gym and do things that I didn't even want to do just because I thought I had to. I don't want to be like that anymore, and I'm starting to realize that I do have control over my own life and I can do whatever I want. When I get home if I want to go abroad again next year, yeah I'm going to do it despite what anyone else says. I also feel that at home no one really knows or understands me but that is half my own fault because I don't like to open up or put myself out there. There are just so many things that have been running through my mind and it's hard for me to express them.
I think it's funny because I am literally not homesick at all. I kind of miss "normalcy" and of course I miss my friends and family but luckily for Skype and Facebook and all this other technological crap it's like they are here with me anyways. - It's also such a nice life without constantly being in contact with people, yes I do miss my blackberry because it's just easier to have it with me to find things and be in contact with people but honestly it's amazing to see how much you learn to appreciate people you spend time with when they are not preoccupied with something else. I wish it was like that at home, it just makes for a better quality of life.
For example, the people I have met here I have already had better conversations and heard more stories than any of the people I have met at home.
I am really enjoying myself, letting myself think freely and not worry half as much as I usually do.
Another funny thing I realized is that I am literally exactly like my mother, all the things that she does that we constantly make fun of her for, I DO. My friends tease me about being over cautious and like a "nana" all the time but it's just something I cannot help. Rose pond that quality off on me. It's just the way I am.
These are just a bunch of things I was thinking about this morning, trying to a better quality "richer" life.
I don't want to go back to class today but I don't really have a choice, I have class again from 4-9 (brutal)..
Before I left for Madrid I was skeptical, exciting, scared, and a little freaked out about leaving. I had so many mixed emotions I couldn't even control myself. I had never been away from my family for a long period of time, granted I do live at school at home but it is literally 15 minutes away, I am constantly talking to my mother and my father's in the city basically once a week for work and stops by and says hi. So this is really my first time alone. It's funny because I feel a lot better off than I thought I was going to be. Being here makes me appreciate my family and realize that I can go far away and do something that really makes me happy and that they will be there when I get back.
The more I think about it I honestly have not been as happy of a person as I can be back in Boston, yes I love school and I love my friends but I feel like there is so much more to life than what I have been doing. There is so much I want to see and experience in the world and I feel the NEED to do it. I know I am only 19 years old but when I look get older and look back on being young I want to have something to show for it not just going to college, staying local and getting a job. I have this itch to see everything and go everywhere or move and meet tons of new people. I kind of lost myself over the past year and a half, didn't really have a hobby, would just go to work, school, the gym and do things that I didn't even want to do just because I thought I had to. I don't want to be like that anymore, and I'm starting to realize that I do have control over my own life and I can do whatever I want. When I get home if I want to go abroad again next year, yeah I'm going to do it despite what anyone else says. I also feel that at home no one really knows or understands me but that is half my own fault because I don't like to open up or put myself out there. There are just so many things that have been running through my mind and it's hard for me to express them.
I think it's funny because I am literally not homesick at all. I kind of miss "normalcy" and of course I miss my friends and family but luckily for Skype and Facebook and all this other technological crap it's like they are here with me anyways. - It's also such a nice life without constantly being in contact with people, yes I do miss my blackberry because it's just easier to have it with me to find things and be in contact with people but honestly it's amazing to see how much you learn to appreciate people you spend time with when they are not preoccupied with something else. I wish it was like that at home, it just makes for a better quality of life.
For example, the people I have met here I have already had better conversations and heard more stories than any of the people I have met at home.
I am really enjoying myself, letting myself think freely and not worry half as much as I usually do.
Another funny thing I realized is that I am literally exactly like my mother, all the things that she does that we constantly make fun of her for, I DO. My friends tease me about being over cautious and like a "nana" all the time but it's just something I cannot help. Rose pond that quality off on me. It's just the way I am.
These are just a bunch of things I was thinking about this morning, trying to a better quality "richer" life.
I don't want to go back to class today but I don't really have a choice, I have class again from 4-9 (brutal)..
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Success: The Fam Relocates to Portugal
We officially made our first moves as world travelers this weekend at friday morning at 5:30 am after going out the night before (bright idea gab), we made our way to the airpot for our 7:30 am flight. The flight to Lisbon was very quick and I slept the entire time, that is the whole 1 hour and 10 minutes..
When we arrived in Portugal we walked around until we found a cheap hostel to stay in. We found one right near Rossio square for 10 euro a night. The hostel was not THAT bad but it was absolutely FREEZING, but we sucked it up and made it through the next two nights.
We did a lot of exploring, eating, and shopping while we were there the first day. We sat by the water that was beautiful and relaxing as well. I thought Madrid had a lot of statues and fountains but there was literally one on every block in Lisbon.
The night life is totally different there as well. Us newly born Spaniard used to eating wicked late decided to go out to dinner around 9:30, and there was literally no one eating. We were so confused but we picked a place outside got some food and crushed 4 bottles of wine between 5 of us. Apparently in Portugal everyone eats from 7-9, it's funny how even though the countries are so close the cultures are so different. Also, the people in Lisbon all drink out on the streets in the "barrio alta" starting earlier than we're used to as well. In Madrid we don't go out til about 1:30, thats not how it works there though!
Saturday we got lunch and did a bus tour on a double decker bus, it was really nice and we got to see a lot of the city. We got dinner later on and it was delicious I got salmon, it melted in your mouth. So yummy. It was nice to eat some real people food and not crap from Baradas All weekend. Lisbon is beautiful, I loved it and would definitely go back.
I really love being here now. I am very happy and I'm so glad I came. My only complaint is that I have to stop breaking things and tripping. Idno where all this bad luck is coming! Say a prayer for me people!
When we arrived in Portugal we walked around until we found a cheap hostel to stay in. We found one right near Rossio square for 10 euro a night. The hostel was not THAT bad but it was absolutely FREEZING, but we sucked it up and made it through the next two nights.
We did a lot of exploring, eating, and shopping while we were there the first day. We sat by the water that was beautiful and relaxing as well. I thought Madrid had a lot of statues and fountains but there was literally one on every block in Lisbon.
The night life is totally different there as well. Us newly born Spaniard used to eating wicked late decided to go out to dinner around 9:30, and there was literally no one eating. We were so confused but we picked a place outside got some food and crushed 4 bottles of wine between 5 of us. Apparently in Portugal everyone eats from 7-9, it's funny how even though the countries are so close the cultures are so different. Also, the people in Lisbon all drink out on the streets in the "barrio alta" starting earlier than we're used to as well. In Madrid we don't go out til about 1:30, thats not how it works there though!
Saturday we got lunch and did a bus tour on a double decker bus, it was really nice and we got to see a lot of the city. We got dinner later on and it was delicious I got salmon, it melted in your mouth. So yummy. It was nice to eat some real people food and not crap from Baradas All weekend. Lisbon is beautiful, I loved it and would definitely go back.
I really love being here now. I am very happy and I'm so glad I came. My only complaint is that I have to stop breaking things and tripping. Idno where all this bad luck is coming! Say a prayer for me people!
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Monday
Yesterday was the longest day of my life. I had class straight through from 10:45-9pm. I literally had biology class from 10:45-3:30 sitting in the most uncomfortable chair in the entire world talking about animals and trees. Not fun. But anyways to make it through my days I have been relying heavily on coffee and this "crack shot" at school which consists of some sort of espresso and chocolate, but it literally is like crack. All the coffee usually doesn't even help me stay awake in class but of course it kicks in as soon as I get home at 9:30 at night. Thank god for melatonin or I would NEVER sleep.
Today has been a lazy day I woke up around 12, went for a walk with Tommy to the bank then ran and exercised for a bout an hour, then proceeded to ruin that by going to the store and getting 3 bars of toblerone and 2 huge bags of cookies covered in chocolate. woops. All i do is eat chocolate here it's ridiculous. I miss fruit and oatmeal and nuts. Not to mention the gym. I need the gym.
We are going to lisbon this weekend. Should be exciting. I am all over the place writing this. I can't think straight.
Today has been a lazy day I woke up around 12, went for a walk with Tommy to the bank then ran and exercised for a bout an hour, then proceeded to ruin that by going to the store and getting 3 bars of toblerone and 2 huge bags of cookies covered in chocolate. woops. All i do is eat chocolate here it's ridiculous. I miss fruit and oatmeal and nuts. Not to mention the gym. I need the gym.
We are going to lisbon this weekend. Should be exciting. I am all over the place writing this. I can't think straight.
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