Meeting Fernando Torres in Albacete

Thursday
-In the evening Eddie and I went over to Alvaro’s piso. He’s one of the teachers at Eddie’s school and he invited us over for some party he was having. And let me tell you, it was A LOT of fun. There were like 15 of us and the one guy was playing the guitar and everyone else was singing all these popular Spanish songs. I only knew one. But the guy would randomly play English songs for me and Eddie to sing to everyone. Very entertaining.

Friday
-I went to school to help out with the Halloween party thing. I borrowed a costume from Pilar and half the people didn’t recognize me until they were like right next to me
-Miguel Angel, one of the teachers, had invited me to go to his hometown to spend the weekend with him and his girlfriend Carmen. So I met up with him in the evening and then off we went to La Roda and then Chinchilla, like an hour away.
-That night I was feeling like crap. I had a stuffy nose and just felt awful. But they took good care of me, made me some Cola Cao and gave me some drugs and sent me off to bed early.
Saturday
-I felt a little better in the morning. We met up with M.A’s sister and brother in law for coffee.
-For lunch we all gathered at M.A’s parents’ house. We had homemade PAELLA so I was super happy. But there was soooo much food. It was amazing how much food I packed away.
-in the evening we went to M.A’s best friend’s house for dinner. They had the cutest little 1 yr old daughter.
-and once again, they fed me well after I told them to stop giving me food.

Sunday
-I woke up feeling almost completely better. Carmen took me for a tour of the town of Chinchilla (yes, like the animal) and oh.my.goodness. it’s quite possibly the cutest town I’ve ever seen. If you come to visit me, I’ll probably try to take you there :)
-For lunch Celia and her Javi came over. We had amazing salmon meatball over mashed potatoes. Once again, a boat load of food. Pilar came over afterwards and we all ended up playing a board game. It was funny but I was limited as a player.
- that night they brought over Carmen’s sister’s dog. And I fell in love. It was one of the cutest dogs ever. And she loved me too. It was fantastic. I want to kidnap her and bring her home. She would come willingly.

Monday
-It’s a holiday in Spain (All Saints Day) so we didn’t have to be in Quintanar. Since it was actually not raining, we went to Albacete- the biggest city nearby. It’s a modern city, lacking the historical stuff that most other Spanish cities have but a nice city nevertheless.
-they took me for lunch at an American restaurant. At first I wasn’t really looking forward to it. I haven’t really craved any food from home yet, but the closer we got, the more I started to crave a hamburger. Like a real one. Made from beef. But holy frick. The amount of food I consumed was unreal. Like, it’s a good 10 hours later and I still don’t want to even think about eating in the near future. Actually, all the food I ate in this weekend alone is more than any normal person should eat in a week. Seriously, it was bad.
-but on our way to lunch, I got to meet Fernando Torres. Sadly, not the beautiful Spanish fútbol player but M.A’s friend with the same name. Sorry for the let down/fake out.
-After Albacete we went back to Chinchilla to get our things. And on the way to the piso we stopped at the castle. That’s right. Not only is the city super cute and charming, but it has a freakin’ castle.
-But yeah, that’s pretty much the highlights of my weekend. I tried to keep it short. I’ll try to post pictures later. If not here, definitely on Facebook.