Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday

Monday:
After my classes, Amit, Brittany, and I decided to go to a cafe to talk for a bit. Amit ended up leaving as soon we picked a cafe to go to judo class, so Brittany and I sat outside on the terrace and had a glass of wine and chatted. It was nice catching up with her, since she had visited Barcelona this past weekend. We went home around 9 for dinner. That was about it for Monday.

Tuesday:
I had one class, and after class, I went to a little cafe with Chelsea while she ate lunch. I had some bread with olive oil and tomato and a chocolate donut (oops), which were so yummy. It was nice talking to Chelsea, because we usually don't do things by ourselves. After that, I went home and had lunch, and then I walked along the sidewalk near the sea and sat on the beach for a few hours. It was lovely. Then I started on my mission. I realized I have three months left here. Three months is not very long in the grand scheme of things. So I decided that I was going to meet more new people. I got on the Erasmus Facebook group (which is the program of all the international students) and made plans with a group to go to the tapas route with people that I had literally never met. Amit joined me too. We introduced ourselves to some French, Bulgarian, German, and Mexican people along with various other nationalities and headed to the tapas bar area. Amit and I ran into some friends from Holy Cross on the way and briefly talked to them but not much, because we didn't want to lose the new group we had just met. As we ran off from those girls, we ran into another group of Erasmus students we knew and talked to them for a short time, before running off to find our original group. They were nowhere to be found (because the bars are soooo packed), so we went back and found the group of Erasmus students we already knew. We went to a bar with them and chatted for a while then went to the bar with the famous mojitos (they're only famous to us, because they are delicious and cheap). At that bar, we ran into the original group, so it made me feel better to tell them we didn't ditch them, we had just gotten lost. So now I have so many friends from all over the world! I will hopefully have lots of new interesting stories with my new friends, since we are probably going to hang out with them a lot more. We stayed there for a long time, chatting with new people and enjoying mojitos, until some of the girls said they were going to a bar on paseo maritimo after tapas. Of course Amit and I jumped on the opportunity. First we went to one of the girl's apartments to use the restroom and pick up a bottle of cheap tinto verano (red wine with sparkling water), and we all had to huddle in the kitchen while we spoke in whispers of sausages and other interesting things, due to her extremely old roommate. Then one of the girls gave us all party horns (it was her friend's birthday, who was visiting from Germany), which I am quite sure the neighbors did not appreciate. Imagine a group of 6 girls, 1 guy, slightly tipsy, carrying plastic cups of 1.50 euro wine, all blowing party horns, walking down the street at 1am early Wednesday morning. That is my life. We took taxis to the bar, since it was pretty far away. It ended up being the same bar I went to on St. Patrick's Day, but they had a live reggae band.. it was pretty strange, to say the least. The music was pretty awful, but it was fun being with everyone. Amit, Salisa, and I stayed there until the bar closed.. around 3am. It was sooo much fun. I ran into the lady who is a co-owner of the diner at the bar, which was pretty funny and random. We took a taxi back to a 24/7 cafe and got pastries at 4am before heading home. I think I got home around 4:45am, on a Tuesday night/Wednesday morning. It was definitely a night to be remembered. :) I love experiences like these.

Wednesday:
I slept until I had a meeting with my program director about a study project I am working on with Hannah. The meeting went well, then we went to the computer lab to print off our travel papers for Germany!!! (Hannah is going to Germany too but to a different city.) I am so excited to be going to Germany tomorrow. The weather is supposed to be super nice too (like, 75 and sunny.. talk about lucky!) After that, I came home and ate a delicious lunch, and Kendra and I decided to go on a walk since the weather was lovely. We had some good girly chat and got some sun and exercise while doing it. Then we decided we wanted a drink, so we walked along paseo maritimo and found a little cafe with the cheapest drinks we could find and stayed there for a while. We walked back to Palma after that, and I am still pretty exhausted from all the sun and 3 hours of walking. Tomorrow, I am going to Germany! I will have lots to blog about when I return, but it will probably be at least Monday before I post again.

Hasta luego y dos besos,
Lynne