weekend!

This weekend the rain continued non-stop :(. Saturday, we went to Toledo. It was freeezing out, and it being summer AND Spain, no one brought many warm clothes. We were all bundled in hoodies but still cold. Then, it starts pouring down rain. Non stop. And our tour was all outside. They did not cancel or postpone the tour, so we took basically a 5 hour walking tour in the pouring rain. Everyone was quite miserable. I just hate being cold so I was not enjoying myself. Under 75 (there are other study abroad groups who went) people's umbrellas, it was difficult to see anything anyways.

After that terrible experience, Jobie and I were ready to just go home and relax. But we decided to go to the discoteca so that not all of our day would be bad. We went with Cait and Mary Ellen, and didn't end up staying long, and instead, left and got delicious pizza... MMM. The picture with all the people are some Roman dudes we met on the calle (street). Madrid is a very social place. All of the plazas are full of people talking and socializing. For the World Cup, the plazas fill with people to watch the games.

Today, Jobie and I went to the market to try and shop, but we got there later and it was too crowded. We meandered back to the plaza and sat down for a delicious lunch. However, restaurants function so much differently here. You don't tip your servers because they are on salary. This means that the service is always terrible. There is one waiter for 20 tables. We had to wait 30 min to order and 1 hr to get Jobie's pizza and another 20 min to get out check. But it was a gorgeous day, and we just enjoyed sitting outside eating and talking.

We got home and Consuelo, her daughter, and a past exchange student Consuelo had housed, who is visiting Madrid, were home. We sat down and watched Spanish survivor and gabbed for an hour or so. Consuelo is hilarious and always wants to know about our love lives. Between the taxi ride home last night and today, I got to speak a ton of Spanish so that is great.

We have another full week of classes starting tomorrow, with the world cup mixed in. It should be another great week!!