"if you're an adult, why don't you have a baby?"

Monday
-I met with my new intercambio. Felipe put us in contact. His name's José.

Tuesday
-so there’s some youtube video floating around from back in PA, about some girl falling into a fountain while texting at the Berkshire Mall (where I used to work, for those of you who don’t know) and they totally showed it on the news here in Spain. Like what?! However, they didn't source the location. lame.
-one of my 3rd graders peed his pants…
-I taught one of my 4 year old boys to flirt. It was hilarious. I had winked at him and then he sat there and tried for a while to return it. Adorable.
-attempted to go for a run, but didn’t even make it a mile before I started to experience some knee pain. Last time I ran it had started to hurt after the run but not during. Suuuuck.

Wednesday
- one of my 2nd graders asked me “if you’re an adult, why don’t you have a baby”- Apparently all adults should have children…
-In the evening I went over to Miguel Angel’s and hung out/helped Celia study English/had dinner with them, Pilar and 2 of the new teachers that just started a few weeks ago.

Thursday
-I gave all of the 10-11 year old girls in my afternoon class American names. They loved it. They chose the Spanish name Carla for me. Not sure why, but I’ll take it.
-I went to Cuevas with my friend Sheila & our other teacher friends. It was also part 2 of the Madrid- Atleti game, so I was more involved with that…
-Eddie & I made new friends. Well, there’s always the same group of guys at Cuevas to watch the games and we’ve always exchanged small talk but this time they invited us to hang out with them in their “local” whenever we want. A “local” is usually like a small room where a shop or small business had once been, that groups of friends will rent out so they can have their own space to hang out & do whatever. So we went and the guys played videogames and we all just hung out.

Friday
-pretty much a do-absolute-nothing day. The only time I left the piso was to go out and buy a watch since mine broke. And I think I started a watch obsession. There are so many cool watches! But I love that I spent like half an hour just talking to the family that owned the watch shop. They were super friendly. And they were able to fix my Fernando Torres watch, unlike anyone in the US.

Saturday
-In the morning Eddie and I went and went and met up with our new friends and met more of their group. 2 of them took us to Toboso, the next town over that is the hometown of Dulcinea, Don Quixote’s lady. But we went for a parade for their Carnivales. It was a really short parade, but still entertaining. And we got free coffee out of the deal because the waitress accidently charged someone else for our stuff thinking that we were all together.

Sunday
-In church, they sang one of my favorite songs for the first time. I listen to it in Spanish more than in English and Felipe’s mom was amazed that I know the song in both languages.