Feb 7th – Day of Bad Allergies and Bad Moods

When we got to the school, I had just sent the paper in the message to myself and couldn’t wait to print it off. We had put the paper in the printer and told it to print. ‘Error with printing.’ What?! We tried on another, and got the same response. Really?! I just want this to be done with! Since we couldn’t figure out why it wasn’t working and class had just started, we just went to class. I told Antonio that I was having problems printing the paper and he said it was fine just to bring it later. Too bad he doesn’t have an email address or I would just send it. Oh well. Today in comp we have been learning about the festivals in Spain and today we were learning about the running of the bulls. Antonio our professor after showing us a video of the running, told us he had done it before. What! Why? It’s ridiculous and dangerous! He says I don’t know, I just wanted to and he just laughed about it. He also thought it was funny when we were so concerned about it. There is also bullfighting where the matador is on a horse in the bullfighting arena. Which we at first thought he said that it’s a fight with horses, oxen and bulls…so it’s a battle royale of animals?! That doesn’t seem quite right. Then he showed us a video of it, which then we understood…oh, man on horse fighting a bull. Antonio even laughed when we were concerned about the horse getting hurt. He said ‘it’s just an animal, and the rider is in just as much danger as the horse’…um, I don’t think so. Even if the horse was gored or tossed by the bull, the rider has a better chance because he would be able to jump off. Antonio thinks it’s funny what we think about their festivals and how we couldn’t have them because of safety regulations and laws. After class, I went to the computer lab again to try to print my paper…error with printing. What?! Again?! Then one of my friends told me that I can just go the library here and print it, I just need to pay for printing it there. Ugh, fine as long as I can turn it in. Once I finally turned it in to Antonio, I felt much better. Sadly today in art it was a boring day and I was ready to go have lunch and take a siesta. Today on Skype (or I’m pretty sure it was today) I got to see the puppies for the first time since I’ve been gone! Since this week was not so great, I really needed to see and talk to my family. And seeing the puppies was like the icing on the cake. I almost started to get teary-eyed because I missed them so much. I didn’t even think I would get that way, but I guess since here the dogs are so different, I just miss having and seeing big puppies. The dogs here are either fluffy little toy dogs, lap dogs, or small terriers. I rarely see big dogs anywhere here. It’s just not common. I’ve maybe seen one German Sheppard and he was a little shorter and not quite as big. Labs are the same…smaller and not as stocky. I mean they are but not as much. Then I came back to my host home, ate and took my siesta. Half an hour into my nap, my friends called and wanted to book our spring break plans since everyone was free right now. Dang! I got dressed and went back. After we booked, we hung out for a bit just girl-talking and then we all had to get back to our homes for dinner. Later we met Victoria and I met up to go have tapas at a place called Indalos where we found our waiter is a winker. I mean he’s either a compulsive winker or it’s a tick and he doesn’t know. That’s how often he winks. Which we thought was funny. Teresa (who is from St. Mary’s in Houston) met up with us and we walked to Mazo’s which is a discothèque where most of our friends were at. Another zero euro night for drinks and my friends from Arizona and Auburn have taken to calling me Yoda since I seem to have the gift when it comes to getting free drinks (Even if they are for friends and myself.) Funny. Then we walked just down the street into Can-Can. All our bartender friends were there so still at zero! We had so much fun dancing and talking to our Spanish friends, then at about 5am it got crazy packed! There were people coming out of the ying yang! Then by 5:30 I was ready to go home, but there were a lot of crazy drunks about the streets so one of the bartenders we know (who is harmless and is Spanish and English) offered to take us home. Danny (the bartender) said it wasn’t safe for us to even really walk to our bus stop since there are still so many people out and he said it was no trouble to take us. Sure! So at 6am when the bar closed, we waited at the entrance while all the bartenders cleaned up the bar so they could close. Then Danny took Teresa and I home (which by the way, we live no where close to each other) and I took a shower and went to sleep.