Spainproof

Last First Day of School Pic!

In honor of One Direction's release of their new single, Fireproof (which I'm listening to for the first time right now--pretty good so far, thanks for the heads-up Clare), we have strayed from our chronological album track listing title inspiration, but don't worry, we'll be back on it tomorrow. We're almost through Up All Night!

So today we had our first two classes, Literary Theory (which I'm also going to have to take at Wash U in the spring haahaha) and Spanish Language. Lit Theory looks like a lot of work but very interesting, whereas Language looks easy but boring. So it goes.

Between classes, after some aimless wandering, I FINALLY got to the pool and I swear I almost cried tears of joy to plunge into that sweet sweet chlorine. I swam to the dulcet tones of Fergie blasting from the elderly woman's water aerobics class in the adjacent training pool, and I could not have been happier.

Getting tricked out!

After class and a quick lunch (we haven't really been hungry at lunch because our host mom puts out a buffet every morning plus snacks to go), we tagged along with a couple of the other WUSTL girls to the Corte Ingles (Remember that weird department store that's like a mall but everything's the same brand?) for some school supply shopping, where we enjoyed a wide selection of merchandise featuring the lads' smiling faces.

Post-shopping, we met up with the fourth Wash U girl at this little bookshop/lending library/cafe tucked away in a part of Madrid I'd never been to before (to be fair, there are many of these parts; Madrid is fucking huge), but was a great find (Shoutout Hannah). Free Wi-Fi and every drink you could think of from Cappucino to Strawberry Smoothie to Gin&Tonic. I myself had a glass of white wine. V. adventurous.

Still searching for Spanish beer that doesn't taste like watered-down pee (No offense, Spain, your wine is great), so if anyone has any recs, lemme know.