First Week of Classes Part Two

David Bisbal

On Thursday after class I walked with Mikaela towards Puerta del Sol where she catches the bus.  We went into a few stores along the way and she bought herself a pair of shoes (I didn’t buy anything).  After eating lunch and doing my homework, I went back to school for our second cultural activity of the week: a session on Spanish music (past and present) with Ruben.  He played us
 all kinds of music in order to get us interested in Spanish bands.  Some of the bands I like and want to look up on itunes, but others were awful.  After the activity was over everyone who was there went to a 100 montaditos close to school to get a drink together.  Katie and I split the mini hamburger and bread with white chocolate (it was literally a mini baguette with a hunka white chocolate inside. Not what we expected at all, especially since we had ordered the regular chocolate one and received a white chocolate one.) One of the girls that came with us is from Poland. When I looked at her I thought to myself “wow it’s completely obvious that I’m Polish.” We have the exact same body shape, and face shape, not to mention that we were the exact same height, and both have blonde hair.  I think I found my lost sister. After that I went home, ate some dinner, and had 3 different Skype dates.

Friday after school Katie and I went with Antonia and Sina to the pool. The weather was gorgeous so it was the perfect day to lounge around and get a suntan.  The pool is located in the Casa del Campo and it was the last weekend it was open (kind of like how a lot of seasonal things close after Labor Day).  We got ourselves a spot on the grass and spent the entire day tanning, talking, and swimming.  The pool is an interesting place for a few reasons: #1 it’s the gay pool (for men) so there were a bunch of couples longing together on the grass in their speedos (yes, all the men wear speedos), #2 topless women (which really doesn’t need much more explanation except that at least 50% of those women should not have been topless nor in a bikini), and #3 thong bikinis (see previous explanation). So needless to say we saw some pretty interesting people at the pool.  In fact, Sina and Antonia had gone so much they had names for a few of the women there. Miss Raja (raja is the slit in a skirt) is a women who is at least 60 that wears a thong bikini and goes topless and enjoys to spread her legs out and give everyone a nice view.  Miss Plastico (plastic duhh!) has had some work done. And Miss Flaca (skinny) is a woman who is so skinny you can basically count her ribs when she lies down.  We didn’t leave the pool till after 7 (and we had arrived at 12:45!).  Since the sun had drained all of our energy we decided not to go out that night and rest instead.