In a nutshell, we took a trip to Madrid this weekend. We travelled by AVE, which is a super fast train that just travels in Spain.
When we arrived in Spain, we took a tour of the Prado, a pretty famous art museum containing many works of Velazquez, Goya, and El Greco. It was pretty cool, especially since we've been studying Spanish art for the past week before that and it was pretty cool to actually see things in person.
Saturday afternoon, I met up with Maria Sabugal, a foreign exchange student at Charlotte during my junior year in high school. She showed me around Madrid and we talked about cultural differences...It was really kind of cool to see her again with me being the foreigner this time.
Saturday night was "La Noche en Blanco" (the night in white), a festival held in a few major cities in Europe where they completely block off all the roads to the center of town and just have tons of things going on all night. Theatres are open for backstage tours, museums stay open late, there are circuses, wine tastings, street performers...tons of stuff. There was even going to be a tight rope walker who was going to walk a line over a major street, but chickened out at the last minute because it was too windy. I was a little upset after waiting for 40 minutes to see it.
Sunday, we took a walking tour of the city. It was pretty boring and talked too much about architecture that was all the same. We were supposed to see the Royal Palace, but that trip was cancelled for some reason.
On my way to the train station to get back, there was a Mickey Mouse outside of a park who was handing out balloon animals. This conversation followed (in Spanish of course):
Mickey: Do you want an balloon animal little boy?
Little Boy: How much does it cost?
It was hilarious!
Since we got back not much has happened. We have a grammar test on Thursday and real classes start on Monday. This weekend we go to Cordoba for a day, but for now, some more pictures I stole from other people:
Dinner on Calle Betis
Outside the Royal Palace!
Waiting in a restaurant in Madrid
Hanging out in the Prado
That's all for now!
Besos- Marcus
1 comment:
Hey.....you must have had a blast with Maria!! How is she? I am so jealous. :P How is everything going over there??
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