Primavera! :)
It's reeeally starting to warm up in Granada! Last weekend, some good friends of mine and I took a trip to Madrid! We took a five hour bus ride on Friday morning. After having a pretty slow start, we were lucky enough to have Marlee's friend from home who is studying in Madrid show us around! We went to the famous plazas such as Plaza del Sol and Plaza Mayor. Then we went to Calle Gran Via which is the HUGE main street there with a million restaurants, shops, theaters, etc. At night, a couple friends and I saw Grease the musical in Spanish! It was SO good! One of my favorite musicals and I will always remember seeing it in Spanish. Saturday morning we took a walking tour and saw the royal palace (palacio real). Then after lunch, we went to the Reina Sophia museum and saw some of Picasso's paintings! Then we rowed boats in Retiro Park! It was my first time and let's just say I was just as good at rowing boats as I am with every other sport...hahaha the guy working there told me I was so bad at parking it that I had to leave the boat from the water side..oops! After, we did a little shopping and then met up with some other friends who were in Madrid from ISU and went to a really good Chinese restaurant for dinner! Sunday morning we went to the Prado museum. WOW, that was so cool! I don't usually enjoy looking at paintings but it was awesome to see all of the famous Spanish artists that I learned about in high school. We saw a lot of Velazquez and Goya which was really neat. We finished our trip with some shopping in the market in the afternoon before our bus home!
Classes are starting to get stressful (yes for those of you who have asked, I AM going to school, not just traveling here :) haha) For most of my classes my only grades are our midterm and final and midterms are coming up so I have to start studying. I'm enjoying running every day in the beautiful weather! Every Thursday I run with one of my greatest friends, Julia from home so that's always a blast :) Today it was almost 70 degrees, although I hear it's pretty warm at home also :) I'm counting down the days until my parents visit! Just 20 days!! My host family is so extremely sweet though. Today for Pat's birthday we sung happy birthday in Spanish through skype to him and my host mom lit candles and put them in jellos for him! It was so thoughtful! My host parents are going on vacation next week and I'm really going to miss them! Good thing I get the real parents soon!! :)
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