Drinking and Partying

Okay so the botellón on Thursday was so much fun. Apparently Thursday is the night that everyone goes out here because no one has classes on Fridays (except me, I’m taking Italian). Sorry to disappoint you guys but I actually didn’t partake in any drinking on Thursday because I had class and I’m pretty sure everyone else I was with made up for it because a lot of people were pretty drunk. But I met some students from England who were very cool, made friends with some Spanish girls I have a class with and then met this Italian girl who couldn’t really speak Spanish or English so the English guy I met was translating for us because he can speak Italian. So the point I’m making is that it was really cool because there were people from all over all hanging out and having a good time.

My Italian class on Friday was awesome, the professor is a little crazy but I really like him. He speaks in Italian for the whole class but most of it is so much like Spanish that I can’t really tell the difference, I’m hoping that’s a good thing haha. We’ve been having a lot of down time so I was getting a little restless yesterday from just being in the house all day so I went with a couple of the girls down to the Plaza Mayor to look in the shops and stuff which was really fun. I’m becoming friends with this girl Colleen who I’d literally never seen before coming here but she is so cool and we get along really well.

Last night there was another botellon and we bought wine and fanta, because everyone here mixes them together and says it tastes like sangria. Not sure if I buy that but it definitely does taste good so I’m okay with it. There were a lot less people than on Thursday but it was still really fun. One of the girls in our group though was really drunk and it was kind of an uncomfortable situation because she’s not really good friends with anyone so we sort of all ended up taking care of here which was fine, but I think she’s pretty embarrassed about it today. So after the botellon, we took the bus back to the Plaza and walked a ways to this club that everyone likes (mostly because its free to get in). We were there for awhile (probably until about 3 or 3:30) and then we all walked each other home. It was a lot of fun and I really like the weekends, but I’m also very excited for the first full week of classes to start tomorrow! Colleen and I are going to go walk up the mountain maybe, even though its raining and kind of chilly (good thing I have a great great raincoat!)

Luego J