Dance class, centro comercial, etc.

Well the most exciting thing on Wednesday was we had our dance class. That was fun and at least we convinced more of the guys to join instead of a class full of girls. The teacher is really good, and we're almost done with the first dance (I think there are 4). Oh and one other curious thing was that Juani was cleaning up from dinner and all of a sudden took a pot and then we heard the toilet flush...not sure about that one. Granted there is no disposal, but still....yeah. Then unfortunately I had to actually write my "what is poetry" paper but at least that is done and I don't have to worry about another paper for that class for almost a month. I definitely stayed up a little later than I should have given that I had to get up for class at 6:30am but oh well.

Yesterday we had class but then we got done early because Susana fell and apparently tore her Achille's tendon. I feel really bad for her because I know that has got to hurt so bad. But on the bright side we were finally able to get our Olympic tickets and it went through so that was exciting. We also started working on Barcelona for the end of Semana Santa. And bought our flight to England. We've spent so much money in the past week or two on trips it is insane, but oh well, I see it as a once in a lifetime thing. And I'm excited to go. I think after this weekend I have like 3 weekends left in Madrid. Crazy. I'm so excited to start travelling though and next week we will be in ITALY at this time!!!! Last night Dane, Monica and I went to the Plaza and we were going to try to find a cafe because we didn't want to go to a bar persay or go to our usual place, so then we walked around like all of Alcala and went to the train station and back to the Plaza and to Nueva Alcala. It was fun though and we saw some other Americans, which was funny, because we could totally tell they were American, even though this one girl was trying to speak Spanish. Then there were a couple other American girls we ran into who are going to the Olymipcs next weekend too, what a coincidence. I got home around midnight and then Juani and I talked a little bit and watched Big Brother Spanish style and then went to bed!

Today I had to write in my journal to catch up (even though I've been writing here) and I ended up writing like 5 pages! Long winded, I know. Then we went to the Centro Comercial, which was exciting. There were some cool stores and I tell you, if you know me you know I'm not a big shopper but there are so many shoe stores here it makes me want to buy shoes. I'm turning into my sister!! Haha. Not really though. Then we went into Alcampo, which is like Auchun in France, which made me happy. It was gigantic and they had all kinds of crap for just 1 Euro. And when I say they had all kinds of stuff for 1 Euro, they had movies, cd's, markers, coloring books, underwear, socks, you name it, it was pretty much there. I got 2 cd's of Spanish music and a kid book and truck movie for my dollar and it was a whopping 3.95 Euros, what a steal. That's about it...our "brother" Raul is coming over tonight and spending the night. We haven't met him yet so I'm excited. Then who knows for the rest of the weekend, maybe head into Madrid and hit up some museums or whatnot!