halfway through :(

So my trip of a lifetime is halfway through...I can't stop being sad about that fact even though I have three weeks left!

Thursday we went to a discotecha, of course. We were there and met some American guy who goes to Syracuse. He's a Delt and was talking about how he loves Thetas. Two girls come over and say, "You're a Theta?! We are too!" They were from Baylor. So we took a kite picture and ANOTHER random girl came up and is a Theta as well!! That's what the picture is of. Smallll but awesome world.

Friday we went to the Senate. Of course, we weren't allowed to take pictures inside, but it was styled after the English senate in Great Britain, so the whole building looked like a scene I've seen on CSPAN. Their library was awesome though, for they had every Madrid newspaper for every day of the week.

Today we went to El Escorial, another royal palace built by the extensive royal family of Spain. It was freeezing inside the palace because it was all built of old stone. We were all wearing sundresses and cardigans, so we were unhappy. We visited a lot of tombs, which I did not like at all. But it was neat because we learn about the history of the royal family in class, so I can now easily follow the crazy succession of royals.

The pictures are as follows: One I added from the soccer game, the guy on the right is Carlos, who is a friend of my friend from the States, and his friend Luis is on my right, who studied in Toledo, Ohio, for a year when he was in high school. He loves OSU. (Haha). The other picture is of our sangria and pasta at lunch, typical. The pasta isn't so typical, usually we have some odd Spanish sandwiches. The picture of the sky and building is the inside of El Escorial.