campeones del mundo!

¡Espana ganó la copa mundial! I still am in shock (Me quede helada) that I was actually here when they won. The game started here around 8:30 Sunday so we told MariCarmen that we weren't going to be eating at home because we wanted to watch the game with our friends out at bars and the like. We ended up stopping at a Burger King, haha, on the way and got some sandwiches, then we headed over to the bar behind the soccer stadium. I bought una vuvuzela, which is one of those noisemakers that you can see me using in my current profile pic on caralibro(my new spanish term for facebook). There were a ton of people there and we found Michael, from our texts/interpretations class, and headed over to another bar closer to our school center. We hung out there for awhile and could actually see the game. Then around half time we headed back to the original site where the crowd had multiplied since, haha. It was insane! Beer, food, trash EVERYWHERE and people shouting all the time. I was standing on a platform in a mob of people so I couldn't see what was going on. Whenever everyone cheered we were always asking around, what's going on?! haha...and this one Spanish guy behind us was in his own little world yelling cuss words like crazy at the tv...he had no clue that everyone around him was watching him asking "dude, what's up with this guy?!" haha, it was hysterical. When Spain scored a goal, the crowd went wild with people throwing beer everywhere jumping up and down, man it was crazy! So the rest of the night was spent wandering around the city observing all of the crazy antics...La Plaza Central and many of the other main plazas were packed with people shouting, waving flags, climbing street light poles, the works. Haha, it was so entertaining. I ran into some random spanish guys on the streets and we took a bunch of pics with them, ha, it was ridiculous. I think I went to bed around 2, would've stayed up later but had class at 8:40 am, bleh. But yeah, Spain winning the world cup: talk about AWESOME.

Oh, I forgot to mention, on Sunday at noon I went to a Catholic mass with Amanda and MariCarmen. The church building was AMAZING. It was very old and everything was very traditional, but the chapel was gorgeous. I didn't have my camera with me, so I need to go back and take a picture for sure. The service was hard to pay attention to: one, because I'm not Catholic and I didn't really know what was going on, and two, because it was all in Spanish, ha. It was pretty cool though. I liked it.

Ok so on Monday, nothing too exciting happened. Everyone was still super amped on the winning of the world cup (duh) and I managed to grab a newspaper that day with the huge front page cover about it. Totally saving that. Class was long, and then we headed back to the house for lunch at 2:30. I'm pretty sure I spent the whole afternoon just hanging out at the house, doing homework and the like. I had to start studying for a test that I had today and write a paper that was also due today, bleh.

Let's see...on Tuesday I had class in the morning again, and afterwards Amanda and I caught the bus to the beach for an hour or so until the movie hour at the school center at 3 pm. It was a Spanish comedy, and it was sooo ridiculous. It was about this one guy who was a famous soccer player and he falls in love with another guy, but there's a girl that likes him too, and I don't even know. So essentially, we watched a Spanish gay comedy and learned a ton of new cuss words, haha...oh geez.

After class, the beach, and the movie, I was exhausted, but headed back anyways to study for the exam and finish up that paper. I'm still not completely done with it. I studied a lot and eventually went to bed around 1ish I think?

Today was the last day of Las Corridas de los toros de la fiesta de las Fallas. We watched the running of the bulls on tv this morning, it happens every morning at 8 as we're finishing up breakfast. MariCarmen always watches it with us and shouts "Ay! Ay!" when people get hurt. It's such a crazy, dangerous tradition, but fun to watch. Once we got to school, I had the exam in the first class, which wasn't that bad at all, and then we had a guest speaker in my texts/interpretations class. She talked about El ángel del hogar and the like and then we analyzed a short story. Que bueno!

Let's see...other random things I've noticed here. I don't remember if I've mentioned this before, but everyone talks so loudly here all the time. Amanda and I can sit in our room and hear every word of every other conversation that's going on in the apartment, no matter where they are. Not that we understand every word, ha, but yeah, it's entertaining. Except at 8 or so in the morning, ha. Oh and mi bolsa, my school bag, broke so I had to ask MariCarmen for a needle and some thread. Thankfully she had some and I fixed it! haha. Though seriously, sometimes I ask her questions and try to talk to her and she just looks at me with a blank face, haha. She is very nice but sometimes I get very annoyed that she doesn't even try to understand what I'm trying to say. My spanish isn't that bad, haha...geez-oh-peak. Y creo que eso es todo. ¡Hasta la próxima!