Guess what guys?? It's bloggin' time! :)
Last weekend, was probably one of the longest weekends ever... (it was four days longs, so in a way it was an longg weekend). Saturday we woke up early to drive 2 hours to Madrid. My host dad has a cousin that lives right outside of Madrid, so we were staying with them.
When we got to their house (which involved driving that wrong way down a one way street, whoops. the joys of Spain's curvy streets that never go where you think they're going to lead) We brought our stuff inside and all of us (including the cousin's family. The cousin is married with two kids, 7 and 10) we took the train for 15 minutes or so the go to the center of Madrid.
From there we went to the most boring museum I've ever been to... the Natural Science Museum of Madrid or something. Stuffed animals and me do not go well together. And then to make it better after I left the museum I ran back inside to use the bathrooms and the security guard yelled at me and told me I wasn't allowed to. I wasn't in the best of moods that morning to say the least.
After the museum, it was 2:00, i was really hungry (another reason for my crabbiness), and we went to eat at a PIIZZA restaurant (I loovve pizza incase you didn't know), Jardín Pizza (directly translated as 'Pizza Garden'). We ate more then I ever thought was possible. First we eat had our own pizza (I was struggling to finish that..) and then my dad thought it would be a good idea to order 2 large plates of fries for the 8 of us to share.. and THEN we all split three HUGE pieces of cake... ugg, never in my life have I eaten so much food. And it was so good.
After lunch, (my mood improved by 105%) we walked to the Plaza Major, which was really cool. It was full of people trying in anyway possible trying to earn some money. Painters, people pretending to be statues, people dressed up as famous characters for pictures...etc. It was amusing :)
Lastly for the day, we walked around and went to this really pretty park that had a ton of really entertaining playground equipment in it.
Sunday, was nothing special. We went to an outlet center, but nobody got anything.
Monday, we ate with my host dad's parents and Tuesday we ate with my host mom's parent... and I can promise you, when you eat at ANYONE's house in Spain. Hungry is not a possibility.
School is frustrating, mostly because all I'm told is not to worry and the only people helping me are my classmates. I have a biology exam on friday... last week I asked my teacher what I should study because the exam is over 50 textbook pages. The teacher basically told me everything was important (how helpful.. not really). So I've attempted to study, but due to the lack of focus on my part and the impossibility of what they want me to do... it failed.
But my friends think that if I can get caught out in my chemistry class, it'll be possible to pass, so I've turned my attention to studying chemistry and it's working... more or less. :)
And on another bright note: I got a 7.5 on my math exam!!!!! (This earned me a round of applause for my class and many congratulations :P... okay, not that dramatic, but they were still impressed)
And this weekend I'm going SHOPPING <3 and then going out with my friendsss. Apparently there some sort of festival going on this weekend. I'll be sure to take pictures! :) (also I get the feeling that there's always some sort of festival going on in Spain...)
Until next week, Lotte :)
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