Okay so, I have a list of things on my ipod that I need to write about so I'm sorry if this post isn't as detailed and fun as the others. As you can see from my recent photo posts, 2 weeks ago, I ventured to Toledo at 7:20 a.m. with the entire KIIS group on a private bus! The ride was great and I was excited to see Toledo again! After a random bus stop at a random souvenir shop, we finally made it. Turns out, a city first populated a little after the Stone Age, nothing's changed in 3 years! :D Same gorgeous views as before. After our bus tour, and walking around a bit (including the best cup of cafe con leche I've had since being here) we had time to explore on our own. First stop, McDonald's. Yes, yes, I know...terribly American of us, right?! But some people wanted ice cream since it was such a nice day! McFlurries it was! Though to my and Caitlin's disappointment, no Sprite. What McDonald's doesn't have Sprite?! THIS ONE! So after our McDonald's trip, we ventured to a free museum that had tons of tapestries, ceramics, as well as a really neat garden with mosaics that I loved. If this museum was in Segovia, I would go there just to sit and think. It was so amazingly peaceful! Of course it probably helped that it was an absolutely gorgeous day! But sometimes here, I just wish I had a place of my own. A place I could go when I was having a rough day or to write for this thing. (Which sorry by the way if some of this gets sappy and deep...I was feeling philosophical this morning when I wrote some of this. It happens!) So after the museum, we went in search of some traditional Toledo jewelry which is called Damasquino. I bought some earrings since I didn't get anything last time I was there. Then I ventured over to a clothing store and fell in love with a jacket that I had to have! So I bought it! :) So after our jerk of a bus driver made us wait half an hour for him, we got back on our bus and headed back to Segovia.
Saturday,February 12, my roommate and I decide to be productive and go to the library to do some homework. Well, apparently you're not allowed to do your homework in the public library here or bring anything of your own into the library at all...we were kicked out of a computer room and told to go to the second floor. We went to the second floor, and couldn't bring anything of our own in there. So dumb! What is a library for?! So we were a little perturbed and left. What helps to relieve stress better than shopping, right?! A little retail therapy was in store. Therefore, I went and finally bought the souvenir I had been eying for my sister. I'm so excited to give it to her! I just know she'll love it! I saw them and immediately thought...RACHAEL! YAY! After purchasing that, I went to this 2 euro store and bought some knock off perfume and nail polish to give me something to do that night! I just found the perfume hilarious because it's called "Dulce and Donna: Night Blue" and was supposed to smell like "Dulce and Gabonna: Light Blue" It just cracked me up, plus I needed some smell good stuff so I splurged! After the mini shopping spree, some other girls and myself decide to go get bus tickets for Sunday in Madrid! Inma told us to get tickets for 9 but the busses were at 8:30 and 9:30 so we held off on buying the bus tickets and made our way to Cafe Colonial for some internet. By this time, I was already a little frustrated because I told people I'd be online at a certain time, then we did the bus station thing and then we had to wait at the cafe for the code to the internet for like a year and a half! (Okay...SLIGHT exaggeration...) but yeah! We waited forever but we finally got our orders taken!
Sunday February 13: Sunday morning, I get up early to go to the rastro in Madrid which is basically a huge flea market where you can buy EVERYTHING (literally from dogs and birds to art and clothes) cheaply! We get to the bus station and after Inma realizes her mistake, we go to the cafe in the bus station and she buys us all coffee! I was so grateful for that at 9 a.m.! It was glorious! So we board our bus and I just have one tip of advice for the public bus system of Spain: don't advertise your busses as a Wi-Fi spot if you really don't have internet! :) Please and thank you! Haha :) But the bus ride was good along with the metro to the rastro! There were TONS of people there! Literally! And knowing me, you know I have a fear of large crowds! It was absolutely ridiculous! I have never seen so many people in one place! After hanging out at the rastro for long enough, we decide to go to the bus station to buy our Barcelona tickets since the internet won't let us. We get on a metro line on the way to the bus station, and there's a huge puddle of puke in the middle of the metro car. Talk about disgusting! I guess that's the sign of a good night?! EWW! but we make it to the bus station to buy tickets! Barcelona: officially booked! After that, we board the metro again to go to the Retiro Park in Madrid to eat lunch outside before going to the Prado Museum. That was super nice despite the not-so-pretty weather. The Prado was super nice but after already having been there and spending 3 hours there, I was ready to go! We got kicked out because apparently closing at 8 means closing at 7:50 which is how a lot of places operate around here: closing time is always about 15 minutes before the listed schedule time. But on the way back to the bus station to head back to Segovia, we pass the Royal Palace and see a bunch of police. We were super confused as to what was going on. There were police and tons of people and big lights and then we see a sign for the Goyas! Which are basically Spain's Oscars! That was really neat to walk past! (Though we didn't see any famous people) So after that, we made it back to Segovia and had another week of school in one of the coldest parts of Spain!
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