March 11, 2010

So Wednesday was pretty much the same as the day before the only exciting thing was we went to the Royal Botanical Gardens. It was very beautiful and very dead. I enjoyed seeing everything dead and barron, it was sort of a different type of beauty. There was also a sculpture installation in the garden a guy made of his version of metal trees.

Today we had our English classes and of course I slept through my alarm so I had ten minutes to get ready and run out of the door. After class I stayed at school to use the internet so I could work on some homework and Skype my family. It's amazing how much of our life revolves around the need for internet, I would probably be alright at home without it, but out here by myself I feel like I need to have it.

After I left School I stopped by the grocery story to stock up on some food. I grabbed a bag of pasta, tomato sauce, some eggs, butter, a bag a small lemon bread cakes for breakfast and a can of lentil soup with chorizo to try out. I stopped at the bakery to grab a loaf of bread and was able to order it and pay for it all in Spanish, and apparently no one knew I was American until some of the other kids stopped by and started talking to me in English, then everyone in the bakery turned and looked at me. It made me feel great – I am starting to blend in. The bakery is one of our favorite food places; we go almost every day because you can buy a big baguette for one euro. So in movies when people come home with a baguette sticking out of their grocery bags and you think how fake that is – I am one of them now!

So I came home around 7 and worked on some homework. Later that night me and two of the other girls were talking and one of them really wanted to go grab some food. So we left around nine thirty and headed out to a small cafeteria for some dinner and drinks. We had a great time and I wasn't hungry so I didn't eat and just had a coke because I haven't had any soda since I got here. We got home around eleven thirty and hung out with some of the other people who were at our apartment.