The three things listed in the title of this blog post have nothing to do with each other... but they are pretty much the highlights (maybe a couple of them are more like lowlights?) of my week.
Last Friday night, I went out with Alex to a part of town that I hadn't been to yet called Malasana. It is close to where she lives so I stayed at her place instead of having to worry about taking the metro or a taxi. The next morning as I was walking to the metro station, I passed a dumpster and I could not believe how much garbage was there! In my last post, I mentioned the city cleaners' strike. Well, apparently it is still going on. Fortunately, it isn't as bad in my neighborhood so I don't see it as much, but near the city center, it is horrible!
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| This was a week ago... imagine what it looks like now! |
Saturday night was my roommate's birthday. We spent the evening making an assortment of tapas, chocolate cakes (there were 3 of them!), and a very large pot of homemade Italian pasta. By 9:30pm, our apartment was packed with about 25 of her Italian friends and only one of them spoke Spanish. So I just sat and ate the delicious food and tried to pick up on some Italian. It didn't work.
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| my peanut butter/nutella dessert :) |
Sunday morning, I went to a small town called San Lorenzo, which is about an hour from the city. My friend Grace and I went with a group of about 35 people and we climbed a mountain! There were Americans, Spaniards, Germans, and there was even a lovely Dutch couple who brought their cute puppy! I left my apartment at 9am and didn't get back until about 9pm so it was a full day, but it was so much fun! I definitely plan on going on another hike with this group in the future!
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| taking a break :) |
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| it was SO windy at the top! |
This past week was a busy one. I had to give some extra English classes so it felt like a longer week. Plus my dad is coming SO soon (yay!) and it's getting closer to the holidays and I feel like that is making my weeks longer. This week in school, we learned that head lice is traveling around a couple of the classes. I was told this right after I hugged a student for giving me a picture. You could say I was a little paranoid the rest of the day. I had head lice once in third grade and I NEVER want to experience it again.
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| the picture from my student... I'm not really sure what Cedar Rapids has to do with anything... |
This week in one of my private tutoring classes, I was teaching a 9 year old about comparative and superlative adjectives. We were playing a game and he had to create a sentence using a list of adjectives that I wrote down and on his turn he chose the word "intelligent". His sentence was: "I am more intelligent than the chinos." I was so happy when he said "more intelligent" rather than "intelligenter" that I barely caught the end of his sentence. I said, "What?!" Then he started laughing uncontrollably. I don't know what the Spaniards have against the Chinese, but this is definitely not the first time I've heard something like this!
I decided to cross off the word "intelligent" from the list.
This weekend is a relaxed one - full of lots of Skype dates with friends and family, laundry, cleaning, and lesson planning. This morning I finally joined a gym! I've been looking for a cheap gym close to where I live and I finally found one. It even includes free fitness classes every day and a steam room. I went to work out this morning and just like any other gym, there's a section for cardio and a section for weights. As I was on the treadmill, I was looking around and I noticed a little section of weights in the corner (on the opposite side of the very large section of weights) and on the wall it said "feminino". There were two women lifting weights in that section. Then I looked over to the very large section and noticed it was ALL men. I haven't been a part of too many gyms in my lifetime, but that's not typical... is it? I wonder what would happen if I started lifting weights in the larger section...
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