My roommate Alexis!
Friday night a bunch of us decided to go out. My roommate Alexis and I first went to one of our host brothers apartment to met him and his friends. They really didn't speak English so I definitely got to practice my Spanish talking to them. That went interesting. So far the Spanish has gone pretty well and I can get by but I definitely need a lot more practice in conversation. After Christian's we went to met the others in the program at this bar called Dubliners. For some reason I've noticed the Spaniards really like Irish pubs. Dubliners is clearly some place that Americans and other foreigners go to when they are in Madrid as most of the bartenders spoke English. It was packed, as were the streets. Madrid is a very busy city at night. Spaniards enjoy being out really late and the streets are always packed. Dubliners was fun but we knew we had to get up early so we didn't stay out to late.
Saturday morning we left for Toledo. Toledo is a very historic city and is a mix of Christian, Muslim, and Hebrew culture. Everything there has such history. We visited the Santa Maria Cathedral and a few other museums. On our free time there a couple of us walked around and wandered into the actual village of Toledo where everyone lives. We all were just in awe of this town. There's nothing like that in America. We were walking where people had walked hundreds of years ago, you don't get that in the US.
la catedral
Toledo
Later that day, Real Madrid was playing so my roommate Alexis and another guy in our group went to another Irish pub to watch the game. Real won 2-1.
This morning I decided to explore the area around where I live. We live in an apartment in a residential area of the city. I found a park literally right around the corner from our apartment. There were a lot of families and dog walkers and runners! It definitely looks like a place I'll be running.
It's so weird that classes actually start tomorrow. Like I'm here to actually work. We'll see how that goes.
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