Did we really just get kicked out??

Lo siento! I've been super busy this week and haven't had time to blog!

WARNING: This is another long post.

Not much happened on Monday and Tuesday, other than me trying to get all of my purse stuff taken care of. I had to call the Barcelona Police Station and make a statement and then had to go to the Madrid police station to pick it up. Thank god for Gabriela's help, because she set everything up and helped me with everything I needed to do. Art class was pretty boring, and we all got our exams back... The Spanish grading scale is different, but our teacher graded them pretty hard. I did pretty decent, I got a 75, which is a B on the Spanish scale, so I'll take it! I've also been busy this week working on my extra credit paper for that art class because I want an A (obvi!). Anywho I had my food and culture class twice this week, and the first day we went around to a bunch of places. Keep in mind it was 100 degrees out that day and we were walking around the whole time, it was brutal! People weren't joking when they said Madrid gets hot!! One of the places we went to for class was a convent that sold cookies and whatnot. It's kind of like a lazy Susan and you never see them, BUT the cookies were delicious, pretty sure they use holy water in them haha :) For the second food and culture class we went to some museum with prehistoric stuff, we're not really sure, whoopssss! We got out of class early, soo it was sweet!

On Wednesday night after class and whatnot we went to our usual Wednesday hangout- Euro shot night at O'Neills! Abby and I each bought a bottle of 2.50 Euro white wine, best decision! It was pretty good, I mean it was 2.50, so I'll take it! Before we went to the bar, our friend Ali, Abby and I went to our shady park and drank our classy wine. A bunch of us were at O'Neills and had a great time, as per usual :) We decided to make it an early night and catch the metro home, but Ali's roommates didn't come out, so we decided to just have her sleepover. Puri had no idea hahah She snuck out in the morning at like 7:30 to go back to her place (45 minute metro ride for her) because we had class at the Prado Museum at 12:30 that day... Here's a picture of me and my friend Laura at O'Neills:

Since Abby and I were missing the greatest country in the world, we decided to hit up McDonald's for breakfast before heading to the Prado haha It was amazing. I love 'Merica! Prado was pretty boring, as usual. Incase you can't tell, I'm really quite over the school part of study abroad, I'd like to only do the abroad part, por fa!

Anyways, we had class later that day for Ana's class (the museum thing), BUT it was our friend's Ariel's birthday SO we obvi had to go out for it even though we, for some reason that nobody understands, had class again at the Prado on Friday. For Ariel's birthday we decided to go to this place called Chapandaz, which is a cave bar! Well before we met up with everyone Abby and I drank another bottle of our 2.50 Euro wine on the way there, which was good yet again! Immediately we knew what drink we would be ordering- A 30 Euro fish bowl drink, that if I remember correctly was well worth the money :) This thing was literally 4-liters and just so ridiculous!! We were there for a decent amount of time, when all of the sudden we see one of our friends, who may or may not have been blacked out, getting escorted out of the bar for trying to pee somewhere that wasn't the bathroom hahah Here's a picture of me and my friend Rachel with our ginormous drink:

Eventually we all left Chapandaz, and decided to go to some bars in Sol.. This is where the night gets even sketchier: We somehow catch the Metro to Sol and get off and end up at this bar called Burboun Cafe, which I have ended up at before! I don't know exactly where it is, but I know it's an awesome bar!! It was free sangria and beer for girls, and 5 euro for guys. Although the next day we found out that one of our friends thought he was the only one getting drinks all night. He thought he had some special cup that was getting him free drinks all night hahahah Anyways after Bourbon Cafe, we got some pizza and crepes, and somehow our friends credit card got stolen!! Spain is really coming after us!! Not exactly sure how, but I called the police for my friend and got them to come meet us, and then she told them everything that happened.. After that we decided to just go back, but again Ali's roommates were somewhere else, so Ali ended up crashing at our place again hahah She ditched us again in the morning, since we had class the next day.. Here's me and some of the girls at the cave bar:

Friday's Prado class was even worse than Thursday's! Everyone was hungover and running on like a maximum of 4 hours of sleep haha we were a good looking crowd! Since the grad student on this trip, Josh was planning on having a party on Saturday, we decided to make Friday casual and a couple of us ended up going to see Transformers 3 in 3-D!!! In ENGLISH hahah Of course, the projector was messed up so it took them like 20-25 minutes to fix the projector. Oh and they have carmel popcorn at the movie theaters here, easily best idea to buy a huge tub of it!!

Unfortunately on Saturday we had an excursion to Acala (not even sure if that's the name). We had to meet at 8:30 but it was only a 30-minute bus ride. A bunch of people just decided not to go...so jealous of those people!!! This place was pretty darn boring. Not only was it boring, but we had like 3 and a 1/2 hours of free time, during siesta time, in a town that has nothing. Needless to say, we didn't do much except play our friends' ridiculous riddle/mind games.. After sitting around doing nothing (instead we could have been doing any of our three papers due this week), we went and toured some university.. I think it was the university Cervantes (Spanish writer) went to, BUT I'm not really sure because it was way too hot, and we all just wanted to leave. Finally we got back on the bus around 5:30 or 6 and headed back to civilization! By the time we got back, I just finished writing one of my papers and then had to start getting ready to go out that night. Here's me in front of the plaza:

The plan was to: go to Josh's and pregame, go to the Ice Bar and then go to Joy and stay out until the Metro opens back up (6AM) since it was pretty much our last night in Madrid since we have homework and an exam to study for this week. BUT anyways we ended up drinking too long at Josh's because by the time we got to the Ice Bar it was gunna close in 15 minutes, so it wouldn't have been worth the 15 Euro to get in. Abby and I took this picture in the lobby of the ice bar, it was as close as we could get to getting in!

SO we headed to Joy, a discoteca. It was 15 Euro to get in, but you at least got a free drink with it.. Joy was awesome!! There were two floors, and they were playing American music, there were dancers, plenty of bars to go to! It was just overall awesome!! Being under the influence, some of my friends tried to get on stage with the dancers, but were kicked off the stage haha This was like at the beginning of the night.. Now nobody is sure of why this next part happened, but it did. Around like 4:30 we all were escorted out of the club. We kept asking why and they wouldn't give us a reason. They were just hating on us Americans or something.. Since we were planning on staying out until 6, but nobody wanted to pay cover charges anywhere we just ended up getting delicious pizza and chilling in Sol until the Metro opened! It wasn't the ideal situation, but it was still fun :) Finally when the Metro opened we all went home and passed out. It was overall a really good night though! :) I know this isn't gunna be the best picture, but hopefully you can imagine from the picture what an epic time Joy was!!

Sunday- Not sure if you all remember, but on Sunday's there is this gigantic market that goes on that sells everything called El Rastro! Abby and I went earlier in the trip, but us and a couple people decided we were gunna go to Rastro and then to this restaurant for extra credit in our food and culture class. WELL I was quite tired, so I didn't end up going to Rastro bright and early with everyone, I chose to sleep for an extra hour or two, shower and then I went and met up with them and we all went to the restaurant and took pictures for extra credit. After we got back, we ate lunch and then I wrote one of my papers and took an hour siesta because like 25 of us went to a bullfight today!! At the ring two blocks from our apartment! How was it?? Ummm people weren't kidding when they said it was gruesome.. I was horrified watching the first one die, but I don't know why it just started getting easier to watch them.. We were also front row!! We were in the splash zone.. haha Just kidding, that'd be gross if they even had that.. Here's the inside of the ring (keep in mine I didn' zoom at all):

Now this next picture is zoomed, obvi!

It was definitely an experience and I'm glad I went, but I don't think I'd want to go to another one.. I think you guys are all caught up to speed now :)

Oh and because I'm American, and I LOVE America, I will be sporting my new American flag shirt in honor of the 4th of July!! 'MERICA!!!

Miss you guys so so much!!! I'll be home in one week!... ONE WEEK?!?! See you soon! I'll try to keep this week more updated!

Love you all :)