First weekend

So here are my updates from the first weekend here in Madrid.
As it was our first weekend, we weren´t allowed to travel yet, which was fine in order to see the city, but I am excited to travel also.

On Friday night we found a bar that has a dinsoaur theme which was great for a Jurassic Park lover like moi and also as a reminder of my experiences in first grade. Heavy music, though, and everyone was wearing black except for us, which made it a little canteo (awkward) at first, but then we made friends with some madrileños that smoke like chimneys and spent some time with them before taking the nightbuses (búhos) home.

Saturday we had a class that involved talking a walk through a part of the city with our most laid-back professor, Mario. Really the architecture in Madrid is not all that fabulous, but I guess it was a nice way to spend a Saturday morning. Later on we met up with the monitores (our hired friends that help us to know the city) to eat some tapas in a bar and spend some time with them.

Sunday morning I went to El Rastro, a huge market that has every single thing anyone could ever need (or mostly stuff you will never need, and that´s what makes it what it is) and I bought some good things, like pashminas and a spanish flag (not the controversial political one with red, yellow and purple but i´ll have to do that). then we went to the museo de america where they have objects that conquistadors brought back from the New World but we had to walk through it quickly and missed a floor so we could eat lunch in our houses.

Today we had classes and ate another wonderful lunch from a menu del dia for 10€ and tonight i´m going to a flamenco festival that is free and in one of the metro stations (chamartín) where they have a lot of events. it´s happening all this week and should be really neat to see if we can get a seat. hasta luego!