Spain Things

Holaaaa chicos, here we are at the end of my first week of classes in Madrid! Not that we have class on Friday, but we did have to do this "intercultural" classroom session with Ramiro this morning (different from culture class). What did we spend two hours learning? Well, we'll try to summarize:

1. Spanish culture is different from American culture, which is not necessarily good or bad, plus you should avoid stereotyping.

That's it. That's literally it. He also tried to tell us that all the racist and misogynistic shit we've been noticing is okay here because it doesn't mean the same thing as it does in the U.S. Excuse me if I'm not tolerant of old dudes making kissy faces at me on the metro. Clearly I'm failing to assimilate.

Anyway, in order to cool off after class we went to a cute lunch place with the gals where we got this awesome tostada (really good thick slices of crusty toast) with mozzarella, tomato, basil, and olive oil, PLUS a cafe con leche, all for under 3 Euro!!! V. exciting for a cheap connoisseur like myself.

Sunny Spain!

Later on, we headed to Retiro, where we failed to find the other gals but enjoyed a peaceful afternoon with our paints, watching people play bumper cars with the rented rowboats. We ran into Riva and Alexandra on the way back to the Metro and were able to throw together some plans for the night along with the other Wash U kiddos.

Just heard back from the Illustration professor at Complutense, and he's perfectly willing to let me take his class, woohoo! The painting prof's email kept getting rejected, so we took that as a sign and moved on.The trouble is that it's on Fridays, which will be a pain in terms of traveling, but whaddaya gonna do. If it's a good class, it'll be totally worth it.

Spanish Fun Fact of the Day: The grocery stores here sell 60-cent liter-boxes of wine.