Exploring!

Hi friends. Update on my past weekend:

Saturday: Hung out all day, went and got chocolate con churros with my roommate Gillian, but I think I already told you that.

Sunday (yesterday): Woke up around 10 and went to El Rastro with Gillian and Sari. El Rastro is this HUUUUUGE (and I mean HUUUUGE. Up and down several streets) open market, kind of like a giant flea market/yard sale that takes place every Sunday in Madrid.

You can get all kinds of things for real cheap. Gillian and I both took advantage of the 1 euro scarf sale. I also saw these really neat photographs of the different Metro stops around the city and I plan on trying to find one of the stop right outside my building (Moncloa). There were also all of these cool old cameras and coins and antique-y looking things.

Ah. All so neat. Definitely wanna try to make that a weekly venture. After we poked around there for a while, we got lunch at a nearby bar. I had a bocadillo de chorizo, which is basically a baguette with yummy yummy sausage in between. Then we might've stopped for chocolate con churros again. Maybe. Just sayin.

Today, I had my God-awful 9AM class, which requires me to wake up at 7 and be ready by 8 so I can take the Metro. And it's my only class of the day, so I'm back in the apartment by 11:30. I'm feeling a little under the weather, so I decided to take a nap. When I got up, I went out to find some second-hand clothing stores that I looked up online. I'm a sucker for thrifting, in case you didn't know. The place I chose to go to today was called Humana. It's basically like Spain's version of the Salvation Army stores. And lucky me, I decided to come on the day where everything was just 3 euros each! "Todos las prendas cuestan solamente tres euros cada uno??", I asked the clerk. SI. So I ended up getting a button down man-shirt to layer stuff with and a nice little jacket for when the weather warms up (optimism!).

Much love to all! Can't believe I've already been here two weeks :)