Last week´s festivities

Hola mundo! Well, I´ve been pretty bad at this but here are some of the things i´ve been up to:

Last week I spent my first lunch with my professor eating in a restaurant where I am a REAL client of the place. We now know the owner and 3 of the waiters and the food is delicious. It´s the Argentinian restaurant and it has really good steak (apparently), but I´ve only had fish, chicken, and tortilla (eggs). Speaking of food, we had our last pizza dinner as a group and I tried the hawaiian pizza that also has mandarin oranges in it... a little bit different in Spain.

Saw Guernica (Picasso´s painting) in the Reina Sofia, a huge museum of modern art, which isn´t really my thing, but Guernica was pretty neat. Today we saw Miró who really shouldn´t be famous. I´m pretty sure I could put some black lines, a blue spot, and some black circles in a painting and i wouldn´t be famous...

Saw my first movie in the cultural center near my house and watched a movie about swimming with my family in my parent´s bed, but it was alright and not as strange as it sounds. Also spent some time with my little sister skaeboarding in the street and might have a fracture in my elbow right now... I´ll go to the hospital tomorrow and get back to you all about that one.

This weekend was pretty exciting. Rikka who´s studying in Granada came to visit Madrid and we showed her around and went to Segovia on Saturday to see Alcázar which was the inpiration for the castle in Disneyland in California... it was pretty amazing. I promise I´ll get pictures up before the new year... It was also a holiday on Friday complete with the army marching through a plaza and government things to celebrate Cristopher Columbus, I think. I´m just glad there weren´t any carbombs. Needless to say, I hardly left my house.

That was a lot of info, but I hope it keeps the 3 people that read this busy until I can write again. I hope everyone is enjoying beautiful falls wherever you are (not falls like from a skateboard into the street but more like autumns)!