Yes, I Am Procrastinating!

I really don't feel like doing my big long resumen for a whole tema of etica. It's not hard, just really time consuming and boring. So I'm catching up on blogging instead!

Well, yesterday, as many of you know, I died. And went to makeup heaven! I went with my host mom, ale, host aunt, and host grandma to a building outside of Madrid. You need a little card to get inside (only people and their family who work of a makeup company can get a card) but pretty much it's just like the Ross of brand name cosmetics. There was Mac, Clinique, Estee Lauder, and some random others, but all at majorly discounted prices. As you all can imagine, I was very, very happy, I could have spent the whole day in there.

So today, I looked up all the original prices for everything i bought, and the total came to somewhere around $210. That's a lot right! Well, this is what I got: 2 Clinique little sample sets, and Estee Lauder shimmer, 2 MAC pigments, MAC paintpot, MAC fluidline eyeliner, Clinique anitoxidant moisturizer, and a DKNY red Delicious perfume gift set

All that for a grand total of..... 69 euros! And that's including the 10 euros that was just the tax. I thought it was great. True, my bank account is almost completly empty now, but it was worth it. When am I going to get prices like that again!

I am very excited about it. I thought you guys would be too! lol

Susanne's Visit Part 2.

So from Sunday till Friday she was doing things with her parents, but on Wednesday she came to show them the school and introduce them to a few teachers. So I met with her during lunch and got to meet her parents and brother and sister. They were all really nice.

And then, since we didn't really get a chance to say goodbye, we decided to meet again one time before she left, so we met before she left on the train.

And we got some pretty nice pictures.....

Susanne's Visit

Last Friday Susanne came to Madrid from Cadiz to meet her parents and to see us. She spent the night at my house Friday then Shayna's the next night, then on Sunday, she picked up her parents at the airport.

So she came home with me from school Friday and we ate lunch and went out to Sol. She was pretty tired, so we didn't stay out that late (like until 10:30 or so) but she ate at her favorite vegitarian place and I ate at Burger King (where I got laughed at!, but then got a free sundae) Then we came home and watched part of Twilight on the computer.

The next day we were going to meet Shayna and Kayle in Goya to take all of Susanne's luggage to their house. So we met about 2pm and did that, then went to El Retiro and had a picnic! I had made the sandwhiches (which were delicious) and they brought drinks and some chips. Then we were going to see a movie, but there wasn't one playing at the times we wanted. So we went to the video store and rented a movie. Then went to Sol again and just hung out. Then we went back to their house and ate dinner and started the movie.

I had to be home by 12:45, so I had to leave about midnight or so. And i wasn't sure I could find the way to the metro from their house, so they were really nice and came with me!

In Plaza de España

This is a couple weeks late, but a on the eleventh I went out with Neira for a little bit. We just hung out in on of the plazas (not one of the funner ones). But she had a coupon for Starbucks that only worked after 8. So we had to kill time until then. So we took a couple pictures. And here they are!

Saturday Night Soccer Game

My host dad and some of his friends share season passes to the Real Madrid soccer games and they pass them around. So this weekend, it was his turn to get the three tickets. But, he had his 24 hour shift this Saturday, so he could go. My youngest host sister didn't want to go, the older one had to work, so he offered them to me! We weren't sure who else was going to go, but it ended up being my host cousins, Borja and Nacho.

The game started at 8pm, and we got there at 7:50 or so. Our seats were right over the middle of the field and pretty high up. But that was nice because there was heating coming down from the top, so it wasn't cold at all. Not much to tell, but it was a good time and it was nice to do something. I got back in about 10:30 or so.

Here's a video from the game. I couldn't get the others to load.

Wednesday Meeting

So a couple days ago, I went back to Majadahonda to meet with the exchangers. We had made a plan to meet at the same cafe, then walk to one girl's tutor's house. Then she was going to show us around the town, then go to her host parents' house to eat dinner. Well, I decided to skip eating dinner, because they were planning to eat dinner and like, 9:30, and it takes an hour to get back to my house, and I had and early school day the next morning.

Anyway, after school I had time to come back home, get a bite to eat, drop off my stuff and change my clothes. Then back in the Metro. And that's when I realized..... I had forgotten my iPod! But I got over it. So I got there and found Shayna and she said that Kayle couldn't come because she had to go to some dinner with a Rotary person or something. But we found the bus and got on, and we were only a couple minutes late.

So we were sitting in the back of the bus, talking English, of course, and after about 10 minutes, this guy turns around and he's like, "Excuse me, where are you guys from?" (In english) So long story short, we told him about our exchange and living in Madrid and he told us that he had moved to Spain a few years ago. He was born in South Africa, but lived in Australia most of his life. It was just kinda cool to be able to talk to someone that wasn't from Spain, but lived here and spoke english, you know.

Well, we had assumed that we would remember where we were supposed to get off, but then the bus kept going and nothing looked right, so the guy asked us what street we wanted and he said that we had missed it, but it would be back in that street in a couple minutes.

So we got off and walked to the cafe and the girl (Danielle) was the only one there. And we were only about 15 min late. So we sat down and I ate some churro-like things with chocolate, they were really good. Then as we were getting ready to leave, another boy (Evan) came. He told us that one of the boys wasn't going to come because he was in the Canaries this week, and another boy said he had a take a test and would come a little later. So we decided that since it was 3 girls and 1 boy, we would go shopping after going to the tutor's house! :] So we walked (probably about 1.5 miles) to her house and she had plates and cups set up. So we had to sit and eat, which would have been fine, but I had eaten those churro things and was already full. So we had little finger sandwiches, then she brought out a pastry like thing and hot chocolate, and then flan. And of course, she had prepared it all with the intention of feeding 7 people, and since there were only 4 of us, she kept trying to get us to eat more so there's weren't left overs. I was really sick by the time we finished. But I had a really nice time.

So we left, then walked to the shopping center in Majadahonda. And we had to speed walk the whole way so that we would have time to get there, do some shopping, then get me back when I was supposed to. I would guess that from the tutor's house to the mall is about 3 miles almost all along the highway (but there was a nice sidewalk). My feet were killing me! But it was fun when we finally got there. I don't think Evan had a very fun time shopping, but it was still fun to be able to do something all together.

So I finally got to the bus station at 9 or so and made it home by 10:15. I could barely walk because my feet hurt so bad. And I still have 2 huge water blisters on the back of my heels. But, my outfit was really cute and I'm glad I wore the shoes I wore! (the pictures above)

Exchangers Gathering

So last week (1/21/09) all the exchange students in the Madrid area skipped school and went to Majadohonda to meet the mayor. I met in a Metro station with Shayna and Kayle and we took the bus together. We had to walk a little to get to the cafe we were all meeting in. It hasn't been very cold these last couple weeks, but it's been really, really windy. And the wind has been ice cold.

So we all met, then walked a little more to get to city hall. There were 7 of us, I think, and 3 or 4 Rotary people. We only talked with the mayor for about 5 - 10 minutes, and he was really cheesy. I didn't like him, but whatever. So after, the Rotary people just left, and us kids decided to go back to the cafe and have something to eat. Then after we took the bus back Madrid and went to one of the American Stores. I was really small and didn't have that good of a stock, but some kids got something. After that, it was only like, 1:30 and none of us wanted to go back home, but we could decide where we wanted to go. We ended up just walking, and walking, and walking. We made it to a really pretty park where there's an Egyptian monument, but it was closed. And after we walked to the Metro station and all went our separate ways.

It was a really nice excursion and it was fun to be able to skip school for the day. I didn't get any pictures, but we made a plan to go back to Majadahonda the next Wednesday after school.