Walking Tour - Sarah's notes
Anne and I were in different groups walking around Madrid. Her group was totally lame compared to mine! For instance: they stopped and starbucks; we made fun of starbucks. It was a long walk, but it was a beautiful day and we stopped in the middle at a little coffee shop/restaurant. I had a tasty piece of almond torte/cake and some water. We went all over downtown Madrid, which is huge and metropolitan, but very clean and with a lot of great old buildings sprinkled in. We didn't bring the digital camera, but I imagine we'll get some pictures at some point. All the trendy shopping places have big sales right now - 50 to 70% off. There's some sort of national holiday where everyone has to have sales. I'm not exactly sure how that works, but I want to go shopping sometime.
Cooking
Being able to cook in a real kitchen is really nice. Well, usually Anne cooks and I do the dishes. But I did manage some scrambled eggs. We had some friends over after the tour and made eggs with cheese, hash browns, fresh pineapple, and fresh bread. It was a lot of fun.
School
School seems like it'll be just fine. We're both taking 12 hours, 9 in Spanish which will finish our Spanish minors. We don't have any classes on Fridays, and are done the rest of the time either at noon or at 3:30. The schedule's nice, hopefully it's not too hard. It doesn't seem like it will be. The campus is small, but nice. I guess we'll know more once we start classes Monday.
Our Apartment
Like Anne said, we're really happy with our apartment. It's furnished and even came with sheets, blankets, towels, cooking utensils, etc. The pictures don't really show it, but it has a lot of nice dark woodwork - shelves, doors, etc. It also has all wood floors and two bathrooms, although only one has a shower. We even have a washing machine, hooray! No dryer, though. Instead, there's a clothes line out the window of the laundry room. We're on the 15th floor of the apartment building, so we better hope they gave us good clothespins!
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3 comments:
Wow, so eco-friendly to not use a dryer and all. You'll have to email me your mailing address sometime.
Yay foreign countries.
Peter usually cooks; I do the dishes.
Have fun with the culture shock...it's irreversible.
Hey, it's KT.
I'll try to get an account of my own, but I doubt our dearest parental will let me...
So, Spain sounds kick butt.
(I didn't say the other word for that for the saftey of letting me use this)
I wish i was there...
Nice apartment
It's a little nicer than a tenement in the East Village :D
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