Wednesday was Maria's birthday. We went to Mama Via - which has good, cheap Italian food (I'll have to go back sometime). It was interesting having a mix of Italian and Spanish - I got gnocchi which is kinda like cheese stuffed tortellini with alfredo - it was good, but I'll have to try something more adventurous next time. It's hard when I don't really understand anything on the menu, ha. The rest of the night I studied for my final on Thursday.
Thursday I woke up and went to a cafe to study some more before class. I wasn't too confident about the test - it was pretty difficult but whatever, it's over now and I'm thankful we're in the 2nd section. After my test I just rode my bike around town a little bit and got some money out of the bank before coming back to school to skype for awhile. When I was done skyping it was freezing cold and about to rain so I bussed home. I just ate dinner, read, did some homework and watched an episode of The Office (I borrowed a dvd from Kelly).
Friday we had class in the morning. Morning class is so hard when I'm used to having 2:00 class every other day. But I got some cafe and was alright. We pretty much just reviewed and watched the Lion King in spanish! It was pretty funny. Then I went home, had lunch, worked out, walked around a little bit. That night I ended up just going over to Kelly & Maria's apartment to get on the internet - I got to skype a bunch of my friends from Tulsa so that was very exciting for me. I was back in bed by midnight because we were waking up early for Bilbao the next day.
Saturday we left for Bilbao at 9:30am. Bilbao is an hour away by bus, 10 euros. It has around 300,000 people. The weather turned bad right after we got there - and as we were running into the Guggenheim Museum it started pouring. We got soaked and my umbrella broke. (Two umbrellas in one month - is that bad?) But we walked around the museum for awhile and ate at the little cafe in there.
Me in front of the ¿spider? outside Museo Guggenheim
The big exhibit right now is Cy Twombly - if you get a chance go look him up. It was AWFUL - the best part of the museum was the actual construction, the inside was not very impressive. He was horrible and I definitely could've drawn as well as him, which says alot. Then we decided to just walk around and see the old part of town and shop - but it would rain on and off so that kind of ruined things. It kind of dampened all of our spirits so we basically tried to hurry into every store to warm up and dry off. I ended up buying a rain jacket though - finally! There was this little sporting store that had tons of adidas, nike, puma, etc. - I could've bought out the whole store! (Sara - they had tons of great, cheap track jackets!) But then we ended up coming back around 6. I went to my apartment for dinner before meeting back up with my friends. I went to my other friends apartment and just hung out with them for the night.
Sunday we accidentally slept through church and it was definitely my relaxing day. I just lounged around - did some homework and read my book. I got to skype my sister and 4 friends from Tulsa so that was pretty exciting. But of course it got cold and rainy again. And I ended up going to bed around 10:30, haha! My host mom always makes comments about how I never sleep and I'm unlike any other girls she's had, guess I changed her mind then!
Today I woke up and did some homework - I had to give my first presentation in my conversation class so I prepared that - talked about Camp. Also, I finally sent some postcards I've had since last week (whoops). But I just got out of class for the day - I have Basque Folkdance at 7:45 and homework to do tonight. I'm currently reading The Poisonwood Bible and have been liking it - I'm about 1/4 through. But this weekend we went to a couple bookstores and Maria suggested books for me to read so I might get a library card (which is free) and check some out! I should be reading in Spanish but oh well, maybe I will come May.
The wind is supposed to get really really bad tonight, but we'll see. Right now it sounds pretty bad but I'm still going to try and ride home (ahh) - hopefully I make it :)
More later.
Love, Jill
Your weather just doesn't let up, does it? Hopefully by the end of Feb it will be better. I read Poisonwood Bible and found it quite interesting -- we had it for book club a few years ago. Better buy cheap umbrellas.
ReplyDeleteSorry the weather is so bad. You should ask about a rain dance in your class. Busy weekend for me - call was busy, lots of admissions, phone calls all night long. Monday am - catch up, a little preschool, and lunch with mom. Had a nap in the afternoon - preparing for Big Monday KU vs the hated Tigers - at Missouri.
ReplyDeleteWe are headed to the grocery store. Hope to talk to you sometime this week. Love Dad