Deanna y el Puente

So, the Spanish have a great tradition of making "puentes", or bridges. This means that if there is a holiday on Thursday, no one goes to work on Friday either. So, turns out, the week of October 29th, I had to go to work for one whole day. :) Spain really knows how to relax. Monday I went for a run and cleaned the house. Then I made lunch and laid around the house like a lazy bum, watching tv, untill I showered and went out to do something. Tuesday was more of the same, a run, and then I don´t remember what I really did.

Wednesday I went to work, had 2 hrs of class with professors and 1 with kids. I had looked at doing a lesson from the book, but since it was Halloween, the teacher remembered pretty much as we were gonig to class that I was going to talk about Halloween. So she told the class that I was going to bring a lesson about Halloween, and sat down. I was left standing in front of the class, not having a clue what to do. So I took my whiteboard pen and wrote Happy Halloween on the board, and then proceeded to wing the best lesson on Halloween ever. I talked about costumes, decorations, and parties. It was amazing, and I was pretty proud of myself. Also that day I got my first check. I went after school and deposited it, but I couldn´t take any money out untill next Tuesday because of the holiday. Then I went home, ate some lunch, cleaned my room, took a nap, went to the post office to pick up my Halloween package from my Aunt Lisa, came back, ate way too much candy, went to buy De´s birthday present, used the internet for a while and then went to the bus station to pick Deanna up. Her bus was late, but we finally found eachother! I got to talk to my good friend Katie, because she had called Deanna for her birthday, and Deanna and I took the bus home. Then we said hello to my roommates who were all getting ready to go out with friends for Halloween, and made plans to meet up later. Deanna and I prepared a special candlelight birthday dinner of salad and pesto pasta, I gave her her present (an awesome bracelet that I also bought for myself :)) and then we got ready to go out. Deanna wasn´t feeling the costume, so I said she was dressed up as a supermodel, but I went out in my favorite costume, a kitty kat. Which consists of normal clothes, and a drawn on nose and whiskers. Its the best and easiest and you get soo many comments!! So later we met up with all of the roommates, (the first time the 4 of us have hung out ever, outside of the house, which rarely we are all in at the same time either!) We met up at a bar called El Granero and were there till it closed at 4. The rest of the family went home in Adri´s car, and Deanna and I started walking home. But then we decided that we weren´t really tired, and so I called my friends Michelle and Samar from work, and we went and met up with them. But by this time it seemed colder, and we got more tired, and there were extremely long lines everywhere. Because no one can really make good decisions at that time of the night/morning, it was taking too long and we all went home. We made plans to get tapas with them the next night though.

Thursday we slept in, till 11 when some really annoying bells woke us up. We ate breakfast with Rosa and watched TV, and then went back to bed till about 1, woke up again, ate something else, Victor came from Malaga, and we lazed around and watched TV with Adri. Rosa and Zore left again, to spend the weekend in their homes. We sat around all day until we got ready that night and met up with Victor and some friends around 7. We first went to this cafe place and played darts and hung out untill we left and met up with some other friend of Victors. We ate a ton of tapas, switched bars and had some more tapas, went to this realy freaky bar where all the underground crazy people go, and then to a plaza to say good bye to one of their friends who was leaving for London the next day. It was waay too cold to be outside, so eventually we went home around 2 or so. The tapa plans I had with my work friends fell through, they never called to say where they were. So then we went home and went to bed.

Friday we woke up, and went out to walk around. We visited my school and the Granadian pottery exposition near it, El Mirador de San Cristobal, the Albyzin, and the Mirador de San Nicolas. Then we ate more schwarmas and french fries, and Orange Fantas in Plaza Nueva, and stopped by Soufian´s store again. We walked around some more and shopped and then started home. On the way home, we ran into Pepa, Patricia, and Adriana and got tricked into babysitting for a while Patricia went to buy some socks. Adriana is a crazy child. We stopped by the grocery store and went home. We rested, showered, and changed, went down to Victor´s house and visited while he got ready and munched on some ham and cheese they were having for dinner. Then we went and met up with some of the friends from the night before, had some tapas and then went to this cool bar near Plaza Einstein. It was cool because they gave you sunflower seeds with your drink, which I like. We were there till it closed at 4, and then walked to this disco, called the BoogaClub. I saw Michelle there, but she went home pretty quickly, and we were there till about 6:30. It was a really, really fun night, and then we walked home and stopped by Cafe Futbol for some early morning churros and hot melted chocolate. Victor completely fell asleep, but we all finally made it home and went to bed.

Saturday we woke up, really late, and lazed around. Victor brought us up some delicious pasta and meat for us to eat, compliments of Pepa, which was pretty much the best thing that could have happened that day.

I wrote the previous entry the same day that I wrote Ana´s entry but the internet stopped working so I couldn´t finish or post it. I´ll finish it later and add the appropiate photos. :)

To Be Continued...