Monday:
I went to classes all day. I walked around after my last class with some people and enjoyed a delicious coconut cake/bread from a street bakery vendor. It was incredible. I met up with other friends and walked around with them for a while before heading back for dinner. I remember being happy to be back in Palma. I also started getting pretty sick on Monday.. lots of sneezing and coughing.
Tuesday:
I felt pretty bad on Tuesday and really didn't want to go to class, but I went anyway. Also, I decided to try out the gym at school after my class. I rode one of the stationary bikes for about 20 minutes until I felt like I was going to cough up a lung. Sickness, plus already bad lungs, meant that I could not do nearly as much as I thought I could. I want to go back when I feel better. I also bought my Hanson 5 of 5 London ticket package on Tuesday with money that Vanderbilt gave me (thanks, Vandy!), so I will be going to London for a week in June and couldn't be more excited! My mom told me about the student in Madrid who was missing and found dead on this day. I was pretty shaken up by it. I read through his blog which is eerily similar to mine. I can't even imagine one of my friends here going missing and turning up dead in a river or ocean. I can't stop thinking about him and his family and friends. We were going to go out for tapas, but everyone was sick and didn't feel like it.
Wednesday:
No class yet again. My host madre calls these days my "vacaciones". This was a good day for vacaciones, since I felt pretty awful and sneezed non-stop. I spent most of my day resting and watching Gossip Girl. We went out for tapas and drinks around 10:30pm and only stayed out til midnight or so. I like these nights, because it's fun to catch up and buy cheap drinks and food. Though, I have never bought tapas when we go out for them, because I always eat dinner first. It would be very expensive to fill up on tapas, so they're more like after dinner appetizers. One of the bars we went into was playing an episode of Spongebob on a projector on a wall. I was quite excited. We all got glasses of lemon beer, which was very delicious.
Thursday:
I did nothing all day except go to one class. We had planned on eating dinner and bowling as a group on Thursday night, so I anxiously waited on that all day. We went to an American diner aptly called "Diner" that is very close to my house. It is decorated like an old 50's diner, which is so cool. It has a lot of Route 66 (I used to live a mile from Route 66 in Oklahoma) decor, Texas decor, and some Oklahoma decor too! I felt right at home there. Their menu was sooo hard to choose from, since everything sounded so wonderfully American. I decided on a grilled cheese and ham sandwich with french fries. It was definitely amazing and made me miss Sonic and my mom's grilled cheese sandwiches. Some of their menu items include omelets, hamburgers, cheese fries, milkshakes, peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and club sandwich. Needless to say, I will be back. One of the owners came and talked to us [she is in her 30's and has red hair] and spoke with an American accent, which we were not expecting. She is from Texas.. ha. She talked to us for a long time, which was very cool. I am pretty jealous of her life. She opened a restaurant in Palma with one of her friends, and it's really successful. That sounds like something I would want to do. All of our food was incredible. She told us there is another location closer to the bars that is open 24/7... sounds like we have a new place to go to at 7am after paseo. We didn't end up going bowling after dinner, because the bus has already stopped running. Hannah, Amit, and I decided to get some bebidas at the foto kiosko (our favorite store) and go to a park. We got some really deliciously crappy purple cherry flavored vodka which barely had any alcohol in it and played on swings and the coolest teeter totter ever for a few hours. We were waiting on Brittany to go to a bar until 2am, but she ended up not coming so we walked down there together.. only to arrive just as it had closed. We saw some of the other CIEE and Erasmus people outside and said hello before heading home.
This is the diner website! http://www.restaurantesdiner.com/
Friday:
I literally did nothing all day except eat meals and watch television shows online. I also looked up things to do in London like Harry Potter location tours. I also have been trying to find a hotel close to the concert venue and flights too. There's a lot to sort out, but I have 3 months to do so.
This week was pretty uneventful! Lots of people here are sick, and I stayed home a lot. Another change I forgot to add is that I asked my uncle to change my flight home to June 30th, which is the last possible day I can stay in my host family's home. I know I'm not going to want to leave these perfect beaches and crystal clear water, especially during the summer. I wish I could spend an entire year here. The summer is supposedly the best time to be here, and I will be leaving before the peak of summer even starts. But, I am so thankful that I have gotten to be here at all.. I never even dreamed I would get the opportunity to live on a Spanish island in the Mediterranean Sea for 6 months. Thanks to everyone who has helped make that possible. :) Hopefully I will be a bit more productive today, but probably not, since the weather is pretty bad. My mom and aunt Karen will be here one week from today, and I can't wait!!! Every day when I walk by the hotel they are staying in, I get even more excited. Also, apologies for not posting in so long! I will try to be more diligent in the future.
un beso,
Lynne
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