Things I Miss... in no imparticular order

1) Steven

2) Mom n Dad

3) Amit

4) Annie

5) All the rest of my friends and family

6) Windsor Baby!

7) My big bed at my apartment

8) Pasta

9) Hot sauce

10) Mini Reeses Peanut Butter Cups

11) Smarties

12) Snow days

13) Mini Reeses Peanut Butter Cups

14) Chili

15) Mexican food  (its really interesting how in America you can get just about any type of food you want no matter where you are, but here, finding Mexican or Italian or American food is nearly impossible.  It's Spanish food all the time, which, don't get me wrong, is yummy, but I'm used to changing it up)

16) Movie theatres

17) Crazy Bowls and Wraps

18) Lucky Charms

19) St. Louis in general

But no worries, I'm NOT coming home! I love love love love it here!

Toledo

So today we went on a trip to Toledo, with some kids from school, and we started out driving around in a bus with the tour guide explaining the history of Spain (with the Muslims, Christians and Jews) which I had already studied do I was really interested in seeing where it all took place.  There are so many beautiful bridges, churches, cathedrals and castles everywhere. After Madrid became the official capital of Spain everybody from Toledo started moving there and somehow (it was hard to hear everything the tour guide said) that lead to just about every building being given to the church and turned into another cathedral or church or something which made for some pretty interesting times back in the day.

Toledo is hands down the most beautiful part of Spain i have seen so far, I will snatch some pictures from my roommate Mary and put them up when I can (I'd have my own but my camera battery died, need to charge that tonight).  After the bus part we got out and walked around to see all the churches and such for a few hours and it was raining the entire time.  I was really glad that my mom bought me a dorky pancho and that I brought it as well as my umbrella, cause I stayed so dry and I helped keep my new friend Andy dry too who's shoes and socks and jacket were basically soaked for a while there.

So aside from the cold everything was amazing, we ate some marzipan (yuck in my opinion, but everyone else loved it) which is something Toledo is known for and then saw some MORE churches and then an old synagogue... at the entrance to this synagogue there is an x-ray machine for your bags, and it was already a convoluted experience trying to close my umbrella, take off the poncho, and then take off my bag but to top off my goofy-looking-ness... My scarf (unknown to me) was wrapped around the handle of my bag and pulled me into the x-ray machine for a second, yes, I'm a doofus.

From that point on we were all pretty much just set free to do whatever, we saw El Greco, found some lunch, a big, scary, evil, barking dog scared the living daylight out of me and caused me to jump over about ten people, ate some more marzipan, and then finally got back to Madrid in time for dinner.

So I have a Spanish quiz in the morning so I'm going to go study for that now...

Love you all!

p.s. make comments so I know people are actually reading these!

Art class vent...

So I'm going to take this opportunity to vent about my art class... more specifically, my art teacher...

So this guy is really skilled and nice and what not, speaks no English but I like that because it forces the class to use Spanish the entire time...

BUT...

he is starting to drive me crazy.  He is really specific about how he wants us to do some things which are really individual and not fair to make us do (metaphor: making someone tie their shoes the bunny ears way when they are used to the standard shoe lace knot which works just as well and makes no difference what. so. ever) and then he DRAWS ON MY PIECES!! I cannot stand it, its not right, its not okay, he needs to stop.  He likes to take pieces during class from us and show the rest of the class how we're doing, what advice to give, what the next step is if we are ahead.. and normally I am ahead cause I always get right to work to try and get it over with.. and he'll start drawing all over my work, and I need to figure out a way to handle this guy before I flip out. haha. so any suggestions would be grand  ;-)