The Past Couple Days in a Nutshell

I think it's about time I give a little weekly update. This week started off kind of slow as all of us were tired from our long weekend travels.  Classes went well. My favorite is still my Myths and Legends class with Juanjo :).

Wednesday was when the week started to pick up.  Some of the intramural sports started at IE. I will be starting basketball next week, but this week was the start of volleyball (volibol).  Me, Luke, Mark, Alex, and Mike S were the Bennie/Johnnie players.  We walked to the gym and when we first got there, the gym was full of a bunch of older guys playing basketball. It reminded me of the movie "Along Came Polly"--take a look and see why...

So after the men got done playing basketball, we got the court.  There were about fifteen students in all.  I met a lot of new people, not only from Spain, but from Austria and Dubai, too! It was such a neat experience.  I will definitely be returning for volleyball every Wednesday night. 

Thursday was fun, too.  After finishing up with my three classes for the day Anna, Morgan, Michelle and I met up with four guys from the Military Academy in Segovia to practice speaking spanish while they practiced their english.  It turned out to be a really fun time.  In Spanish culture, if you invite someone out for tapas (buy a drink and get some appetizers), you pay for them, so the boys paid for our drinks. We will definitely be making this a weekly event with Gonzo, Eduardo, Javi, and Mateo (and hopefully they let us pay next time). After our little "intercambio" I went home for dinner and had breaded and chicken and french fries (yum!).  Then our group met at the Aqueduct at 11 to go out for the night.  We went to Zircus and danced a little bit and then I called it a night around 2:30 a.m. I am finally starting to get used to the scheduling around here (everything is just a little later in Spain).  

This morning I slept in til around 10:30 and then laid in bed for another hour reading Eat. Pray. Love. All of a sudden I heard a bunch of music in the street.  I opened my window and popped my head out to see a bunch of women dressed in traditional spanish get-up parading down the street. They all had baskets full of bread that they were handing out to people.  This Sunday is El Dia de Santa Aguila (St. Aguila's Day). St. Aguilla is the patron saint for women, so Sunday there is a big party with free food and drinks for all the ladies.  I asked my host mom if she was going to go celebrate it and she said every day is women's day in Spain--haha. Love it! 

This weekend is full of fun stuff.  Later today our group is going to visit La Juderia (the old Jewish quarters in Spain) and then we have the big SUPER BOWL this Sunday! Don't worry, the boys already talked to Jesus from Oso Blanco, and we will be watching the Super Bowl (starting at 12 a.m.) at Oso!!

That is all for now, it's about lunch time so I better be off!

Luego!