Ositos

This means ¨little bear¨and is the Spanish name for gummy bears. I thought I was bringing my madre a unique American gift of gummy bears but I've seen them like 7 times around town. So me and Courtney decided to eat them and throw them at each other instead.

Today has been a good day. We went to school and all the lights stayed on! Grammar is always fun-- never thought I would say that. We discussed existentialism today and how time is actually one eternal moment. Weird. Culture class was good but always makes me sleepy.

We ate a quick lunch in Retiro with our small groups and discussed activities we have to do and report on and our responsibilities for our trip to Segovia this Saturday.

We spent a little time this afternoon taking a shorter siesta and doing homework. Then we explored around where we live a little. There's actually a Burger King and a Dominos close to where we live. There's also some cute little shops. We made it to the Ventas bull fighting ring where we change trains and got on the metro there. It is actually one of the prettiest buildings I have seen.

Plaza de Torros

We met with Allison, Caitlyn, Kimberly, Taylor, Justin, and Logan to go to church. When we got there, we only found 3 guys (Marcos, Carlos, and David) because the rest of the youth were studying for their exams. The rest of the americanos had to go eat dinner so me and Courtney went with the guys to eat at El Museo del Jamon. We turned it into a picnic outside of the Prado Museum. It was beautiful. From there they walked us through the city and we ended in La Plaza Callao. It was a fun night for sure.

Mi made and my new friends taught us many sayings in Madrid. I'm sure there are some English equivalents. Here are some of the prettiest:

*Mas vale pajaro en mano, que ciento volando. --It's better to have one bird in your hand than many flying around.

* Haz el bien sin mirar a quien-- Do good without looking for whom

*one of the funniest: Las chicas buenas van al cielo y las malas a todas partes-- Good girls go to heaven and bad girls go all over.

They also taught us "Que freaky!" which really means how freaky, awkward, or geeky.

We taught them the awkward turtle. The caught on pretty fast and started using it right away.

It was so nice to actually interact with real Spaniards! Pray that these relationships would grow and continue!