So sorry for the posting delay! I have been quite busy until today. I will try to catch up today by making several posts in between episodes during my Gossip Girl season 3 marathon.
Tuesday, March 1 - El Dia de Les Illes Baleares (or, Balearic Islands Day):
Tuesday was so much fun! Classes were canceled (woohoo!), so Hannah and I headed down to the main part of town where the festivals were. There were soooo many people everywhere, including tons of tourists, which I hadn't really seen before that day. (And it seems like ever since that day, there have been noticeably more tourists.. I think the tourist season has begun!) There were a few different markets including a Roman market and a Medieval Market. It was so much fun just people-watching, sampling cheeses and roasted nuts, eating random food, and browsing all of the homemade goods in the tents. I wish they had something like that every day. Hannah and I ran into our other friends from the CIEE program, so then we walked around in a slightly larger group. I loved photographing the people there and the goods for sale. We found this really cool stand in the Roman market that was run by people from Argentina that made handcrafted leather goods. Brittany and I fell in love with their bracelets. I bought one brown leather bracelet, and she bought a few. We stopped at a bakery stand to get some food (I got an empanada which is a Mallorcan speciality. It had veggies and meat in a pastry shell.. yummy.) We stayed down there for quite a few hours, so we ate again. We had something called "choripan" (which I think has South American origins), which was a spiced brat on bread and some beer to go with it of course. It was sooo good! I had never eaten anything like it before, and of course, it was ridiculously cheap! I love the food here. The weather was kinda lame.. it was cloudy and rainy at first, sunny for a while, then cloudy and rainy again, then sunny again! I guess that is life on an island, though. I bought a Bob Esponja (Sponge Bob!) kids tshirt for myself that says Mallorca on it (it's kind of a joke.. I always point out Bob Esponja stuff here), a wooden beaded bracelet, a fake turquoise ring, the braided leather bracelet, and food. We got pretty tired so we headed home for naps before tapas. I was sooo excited to out for tapas, since I hadn't done that yet. We met a huge group of people (mostly other international students from Switzerland and Germany) around 10pm and headed to tapas bar hop. It was so much fun!! I didn't eat any tapas, though, since I ate dinner before going, and nothing looked too appetizing. (Yes, we eat dinner before going, because it would cost a lot to get full on tapas.) I just had a few glasses of wine and beer (that were super cheap.. the most I paid was 2 euro for wine) and enjoyed the conversation with everyone. Slowly but surely, people headed home until there was only 3 of us left. We headed to one of the girls' apartments since everything was shutting down around 1am (which is early for Spain.. I guess because it was Tuesday). She made some deliciously burnt popcorn, and we drank a little bit of cheap cooking wine and talked and laughed for a while until Brittany and I headed home (luckily, the apartment we were at was only about 3 minutes from my home!).
Wednesday:
It was yet another lazy day. I slept a lot, did some homework, and went on a hunt for a carry-on suitcase that fits Europe's standards. It is quite annoying that the restrictions here are just a few centimeters smaller than the normal American restrictions, and yes, they check it. Hannah and I walked in circles looking for a store and eventually found the place we needed. We each got a piece for 32 euros, which wasn't too bad for what we got. Mine is bright pink/coral, and I love it! It is very cheap, but it works (and will save me money by not having to check it if the airlines measure it!). I didn't really do much else during the day. Wednesday night, a few of us went to Paseo to a cozy bar called Hogan's for live music. It was a lot of fun, because it was very relaxing and chill.. and the band played cover songs of 70's and 80's rock. I still find it funny that 99% of the music here is American. We watched Lady Gaga's new crazy video on a tv screen with looks of horror and Avril Lavigne's new video with plenty of laughter about the fact that she still acts like she is 15. I had a Guinness and Strongbow cider mix that was heavenly.. I think that is my new favorite beverage. Thanks to Brittany for giving me the idea. We didn't stay out very late, and yet again, we found ourselves waiting at a bus stop for a ridiculous amount of time doing ridiculous things like seeing who could hold their legs up in the air the longest and while shouting "donde esta el bus?!!?!" Just another day in my life.. another day, another bus stop waiting and wondering where the bus is and if it would even stop for us.
The rest of the week will be coming soon. :)
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