October/Octubre Adventures

I realize I have not blogged in a month and sorry. Life (being a lazy 16 year old) hit me in the face and I've been busy having fun (hahaha yeah you can be jealous). 

But really my list of reasons is: I'm lazy, learning Spanish full time, going to school, studying Spanish and for school, playing soccer, and balancing it all with the Spanish version of a social life.

«Part 1»

So like I said the Spanish social life which involves two main food groups: partying and hanging out in the city. The above picture is me and a few of my friends at a disco-bar in Valladolid. We usually go to the disco once or at max twice a weekend and then hang out in the city center. During the week everyone in Spain pretty much studies, school is difficult, for everyone. 

I went to a couple of pro futbol (soccer) matches featuring the city futbol (soccer) team, Real Valladold CF. The team is not doing great (or good) this year but whatever, I though it was cool. 

Also my school had an excursion (field trip) to Avila. Yeah, so my school in Spain does quite a few field trips throughout the year, and usually at the end of the course there is a really big one, sometimes to another country (which are not that far away). We made this excursion because this year is our schools 100th year open. And also it is Saint Teresa (of Avila)'s 500th anniversary of her birth, but we were celebrating her feast day. (In case anyone goes and looks that up). 

The city of Avila was beautiful, but I really liked the [old] city wall of which I have never seen the likes. We had a guided tour set up of the museum of Saint Teresa and needless to say it was all in Spanish. And after 3 hours of listening to different men speak in fast Spanish about the life of St. Teresa… well, I had a headache. But then we got free time. Yeah I know releasing 100+ kids into a city doesn't seem like a good idea, but that's just how they do it. But the way I see it is that this: none of them can driv well, technically I can. But I'm the only one. And Avila is like 1 hour and 30 minutes from Valladolid which is "literally forever" for a kid that lives in the center of the city. And maybe there parents don't have a car so they have to go back on the bus. And they don't go out of the city that much so a lot of them had never been there before, so we were all basically trapped in the center of Avila for 3 hours. And all the while the adults got to do whatever that wanted. But whatever, I'm cool with it. 

So they told me that they don't have school dances here in Spain.

But then we had one. But apparently it wasn't supposed to be good. 

But then it was. I'm going to give that credit to me because I was there. But we ahould also give a lot of credit to my friends, who are the craziest kids I know. And they are all really good dancers. Well I mean I am too, but they've been dancing a lot longer. Anyways, it was called the "verbena" which is an "open-air dance." I tell you they have words for everything here. 

Part 2 is also up. So go check that one out too. 

Un saludo, Miguel