Little Spain Dress

Snap from Toledo found on Belen's Blog!

Well, for once, the blog title actually aligns with something we did today, and that was buying a little dress. Not sure how Spanish it is since it came from H&M, but it was at least an H&M in Madrid. The first clothes we've bought in Spain since that one pair of pants in Granada about two months ago.

Apologies for the gap between blogs. We meant to write yesterday but ended up going out to a friend's birthday instead, and there wasn't time for both homework and a blogpost beforehand. The night was fun, though; we met up with Riva at Puerta del Sol and headed over to meet a few of Vassar kids for the shindig (Kate's birthday). It was 1-euro shot night again, but we pretty much abstained, having learned our lesson from last time. We stuck around til about 2:30, cabbed home, and arrived right on time for our 9AM class this morning.

Moving backwards a bit, yesterday afternoon we had our second "Clase de Interculturalidad" with Ramiro, but this time we were joined by Amy Suelzer, the program director at Wash U who's here for the week visiting. The class itself was way less painful than last time--for one thing, it was only one hour instead of two--and was followed by the WU-funded beverage of our choice at the cafe down the street.

The Majesty of Madrid!

After that, Riva and I headed to Circulo de Bellas Artes, a high-rise museum/gallery with a rooftop bar in the city center. The building itself is gorgeous, and the view is AMAZING. We sat on a big daybed with a light-up end table for our drinks and watched the sun setting over the city.

Today we swam 5600 meters with the Middlebury girls today, then had Ramiro class in the afternoon, where we talked about the Spanish Civil War and the surrealist movement. We'd watched Bunuel's L'Age d'Or for homework, which I really liked, so it was a good time.

Now we're home waiting on dinner and getting organized for Bacelona tomorrow!