Ooookay, so I have some updating to do. It´s been awhile...
So the week after the noche en blanco was the European Mixed Curling Championships in the Palacio de Hielo right in my neighborhood, so i brought a whole group of clueless americans to the palacio to watch 2 hours of curling goodness... ireland (my team) lost, as did Spain (my other team), but wow! what an opportunity!
The next day, Friday, the entire group of us Carleton kiddos along with 2 of our professors went to Toledo (40 minutes away) to explore the labyrinth of the old city, see the cathedral which is amazing and huge, but kind of expensive, and see a bunch of El Greco´s paintings. The best part was the hotel because Carleton paid (well we actually did, but it makes me feel better to think that it´s not actually from the $200,000 that was formerly mine that Carleton will have by the end of 2010) and there was free breakfast and it was a nice hotel. also saw a sinagogue and a huge hospital from a while back which were both pretty amazing.
Last week was full of classes and sketchy waiters (well... only one). Went to Principe Pio for a cheaper than normal manu del dia and had two wonderful camareros, one young and one old. the young one helped us to understand the type of bean in one of the dishes by taking us to the window of a store down the street that has them. at the end of our lunch, we waved goodbye to the younger one as he left for his own lunch or the end of his shift. meanwhile the older one asked us about where we live in teh city and as we left gave us the standard besitos on both cheeks. of course, i was the last in the line to exit the vecinity and he asked me if i wanted the phone number. i, thinking he meant for the restaurant and not understanding why i would ever need it, said sure, being very nice. he whipped out his little notebook and wrote "Paco movil ########". oh and did i mention that he´s about 75 years old and has a lazy eye? so that was the highlight of my week by far... and it´ll be a great addition to my wall decorating back in carleton.
Tuesday we went to El Escorial, a palace/monastery about an hour from Madrid and ate ice cream there.
Wednesday we encountered a place that we want to "become clients of" and humberto huergo always tells us we must do and they have argentinian food and delicious postres and wonderful camareros that don´t try to give me their number and we met the dueño there too (the guys who owns the place). we will be returning to that one, unlike to paco.
Thursday after our class in el prado with javier Tim, Becky, Abbey and I took off for the south in a bus... i will write more about that one another time. the library´s about to kick me out because i always steal their internet.
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