Day 24: Monday- classes
Day 25: Tuesday- visit to Segovia. Got to see the inspiration for Disney world’s castle. Segovia has a really cool aquaduct that runs through the city! While we were there they gave us two hours free time, but it was during siesta time so everything was closed. Dani and I had some wine while we were in Avila, before the tour of the castle haha. That night a few of us (me, Lena, Lauren, Scott, Cody, Dani) went to a Mexican restaurant that was alright, definitely not as good as the states Mexican food though. It was in the gay part of town.
Day 26: Wednesday- classes. Sick
Day 27: Thursday- Visit to Avila the city surrounded by towers. Home to St Theresa of Avila and we got to see her preserved stored finger. We (Me, Megan, Dani, and Wes) ate at a wonderful Kebob place in Avila, but did not climb the tower in Avila, which was a regret. Cristobol said we needed to do it a million times, but everyone was over tourism by then, it just didn’t happen. A lot of my friends didn’t have to go to Avila because a ton of them only had one class.
Day 28: Friday-
Day 29: Saturday-We went to Aquapolis water park. It was really cool to go to a water park in Spain. Really fun, really dangerous! All the slides were concrete.
Day 30: Sunday- Rastro flea market. I walked around with Brittani for a lot of the day. Megan and I made our last trip to our favorite restaurant, The American Burger House, for dinner.
Day 31: Monday- classes
Day 32: Tuesday- classes. Went to the clothes museum and for dinner a small group of 7 of us went to the oldest restaurant in the world (me, Lena, Lauren, Mary Michael, Cody, Stanton, Dani). Dani and I split the suckling pig and the filet with mushrooms. Both were delicious!!
Day 33: Wednesday- finals. CLASSES OVER! Went to cerverceritos with dani and Lauren for one-dollar drinks and sandwiches after our last final and a lot of people met us there. A lot of fun. That night everyone went hard for the last night here. We started at the palace club, which has a Wednesday night special of free for girls and $5 for guys and you get unlimited beer and sangria. Afterwards we headed over to Joy Eslava, which is a really good club in Madrid as well. A lot of the teachers came as well. For a late night snack, Megan and I finally made it to the chocolateria, which served churros and a big bowl of melted chocolate. DELICIOUS!
Day 34: Thursday- Last day in Madrid. Slept till 2. Dani and I ate lunch at a Turkish place at Gran Via, which was great, then we did some souvenir shopping. The protest has gotten out of control at Sol, the Sol metro station has been closed for a few days now and there are loads of police around Sol. The police in Spain are not as reserved as in America. The police are free to harass the people if they feel that they are not being treated nicely. It was really scary, what we saw some of the policemen do to civilians. The Spanish government is down with the protest! That night Brittani, Elizabeth, and I went for a run through Retiro Park. The park was gorgeous. We had to take the metro forever out to get there, but it was definitely worth it. Gorgeous park. Ate at the colegio for the last time for dinner and they served pizza and eggrolls, a personal favorite.
