El Fin De Semana (the weekend)

Day 12
Friday July 10th: I woke up this morning and went to class as usual. They made us fill out a form evaluating the week. Everything went well from my perspective. After class a few of us stayed and went to a lecture over bullfighting. I was pretty excited about the opportunity to learn about this art form. When I got there however, I spent an hour and a half and didn’t learn a single thing that I didn’t already know because the entire thing was in Spanish and she was speaking so fast that I understood one in every 10 words and by the time I had figured out what she had said, she was three or four sentences beyond where I was. I left that and went to lunch at home. I can’t seem to remember what it was but it was tasty and filling as always. Afterwards I took a nap and woke up to Dan and Abigail’s voices coming through the window. The three of us and Reed decided to walk around for a while and so we did. We walked in a big circle beginning heading towards the gym were we dropped Reed off, and ending at Plaza de Toros Las Ventas. This is the main venue to watch bullfighting in Spain in. It is huge and pretty cool. I apologize that I don’t have pictures but I didn’t have my camera with me. After our walk ended at Las Ventas we went our separate ways and I came home. I then just hung out until dinner talking to Sarah. Dinner was good and we managed to communicate that Paul and Reed weren’t going to be there for lunch and Dinner the next day or breakfast nor lunch on Sunday. This is because they went to Pamplona to run with the bulls. I think they are crazy. We also managed to communicate that I was going to Toledo on Saturday. I’ve heard some great things about Toledo, and am excited to go. After dinner, I met Mike and Nate at the park retiro where we walked around for quite a while and then walked past their house and hung out sitting on a street corner drinking sprite and watching cars go by. I found my way home after leaving them after an adventure finding a metro stop that I’ve never used before. I had to stop and look at a map in the middle of the night in a mostly empty street in Madrid. Then the metro stop was under construction. There might have been 10 people in my train car instead of the normal 60 or more. It was creepy.