Clases!

Buenos días, amigos. I am currently updating this from the library at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. I had my first official Spanish engineering class this morning (taught in English though, thank goodness). But of course, as the first day of classes tends to go, we were only there for a half an hour. So I decided to stop by to check out what will be my Spanish equivalent to Carlson Library. I made pretty good timing with the commute here this morning. It takes about an hour to get here by Metro, but I really don't mind because taking the Metro makes me feel really cool. Strength of Materials was my only class of the day, so I'll be heading back to my apartment soon for a Skype date with a certain disappointed Jets fan.

Pretty low-key weekend. Went out with friends until very late Friday night. Saturday our group went on a tour of the Palacio Real (the royal palace) and then went and had chocolate con churros for the very first time! Muy delicioso! For those of you who don't know, when you think of hot chocolate here (chocolate caliente), it's not the powdered Nesquik stuff. Oh no. This is straight-up hot, melted, thick, gooey, yummy, CHOCOLATE which is usually served with friend dough sticks (churros). And it is oh so good. Then later that evening we went out for tapas and drinks. After that, I came back to my apartment to, oh I dunno, BOOK MY FLIGHT FOR SPRING BREAK. The destination: San Vito Lo Capo, Italy. Google it. B-E-A-Utiful.

Didn't do much yesterday. Slept in 'til noon haha and then just kinda bummed around the apartment. Made some tortellini for lunch. I'm getting pretty adventurous with this whole cooking-for-myself deal. Except not really. Today I just might sauteé some veggies for lunch. LOOK OUT! Last night, I went with some friends to a bar called O'Connell St. where they were broadcasting los partidos de fútbol americano (aka the NFL championship games). We were able to watch the Packers/Bears game, but I had to leave before the REALLY important one since, mind you, the games started at 9:30PM and 12:30AM our time. But it was really fun to watch. Almost felt like home. Except home doesn't have drunken Scottish men that start singing Jay-Z's "Empire State of Mind" when you tell them you're from New York.

I saw on the news last night that some provinces in Spain are experiencing record low temps. Looks like the Buffalo/Rochester weather followed me here! No snow though, thankfully. But it's fun to see the Madrileños run around in their hats, gloves, and scarves while I brave the elements with just my jacket and scarf. THIS IS NOTHING.

Muchos besos a todos :)

PS. As promised, a vid tour of mi apartamento! I kinda went a little fast cuz I'm a spaz. Lo siento. But you get the idea ;)