Monday:
Nothing too exciting happened on this day. I went to my classes and slept a lot to make up for the lack of sleep from my weekend in Germany.
Tuesday:
I only had one class this day (yay!). I took a nice nap again before going out for tapas later that night. I met up with Amit, Brittany, Virgil (my new French friend), and a South American girl to go out to the tapas route. We went to a few bars and had so much fun talking. I just love talking to new people. I think that's my new favorite activity. There is also always a brief language exchange of a few phrases which is always fun. French is by far the hardest to learn. The accent is so pretty yet so hard for me to imitate. We went to a bar away from the tapas route after it shut down around 1am and continued having nice conversation. I can't help but giggle sometimes at what non-native English speakers say. It's just too cute. One example, "Do you live in the city or the bush?" I think I laughed for 5 minutes at this question. I always feel bad for laughing, but it's just so adorable. I love listening to non-native English speakers speak English with their accents and interesting word choices. I think we stayed out until 2 or 3am before going home.
Wednesday:
Beach day! I love these days. I slept in, rolled out of bed, and got on the bus with Hannah to go to our favorite beach for the day. I also invited Virgil and 2 of my new friends from Mexico to meet us there. We actually went swimming a few times, though it took us quite a while to get used to the water. We had so much fun talking and soaking up the sun and swimming. Virgil even brought his guitar and song some songs in French, which was adorable. I love moments like those. We stayed on the beach until it was shady and chilly then took the bus back to Palma. The sad thing is that Wednesday was Virgil's last night in Palma. He was here for an internship that he finished, so on Wednesday he wanted to "make party" (another of my favorite European phrases) to say goodbye to everyone. We had so much fun that night. We started as a small group but then the group just kept growing and growing. The most fun bar we went to was a little bar that plays salsa music, and we were literally the only ones there. A few people knew how to salsa dance, so they taught the rest of us how to do it. So we all tried to salsa dance in our own little private bar for an hour or two. It was a blast. Just another one of those memories that I'll never forget. We went to a few different bars after that, and even more people joined us. We ended up going to Shamrock (somehow I always end up there) until they closed. We had so much fun dancing and talking, but we were also sad that it was Virgil's last night. After Shamrock closed, we went to the diner for early morning nom noms. I had pancakes, which were incredible. No one had tried pancakes, so I let them all try them and they loved them. American food, ftw. I love that our favorite early morning restaurant serves American food. It is like a little piece of home at 5am on random nights. After the diner, I slept as usual.
Thursday:
I slept in and went to my afternoon grammar class. Also, when I woke up, I had some really funny sunburn lines. I bought SPF 50 spray (which is the highest they sell here), and obviously I missed some spots when I sprayed myself on Wednesday at the beach. I just had a few spots right along my bathing suit lines that were pretty fried (and are currently peeling) and hurt pretty badly. Every Thursday night, a bar here has ladies' night which means girls get free wine and cava from 8:30 to 10:30pm. I had never been before, because something always came up. So this Thursday was my first ladies night. It was amazing. It was literally almost every person I know in Palma in one bar, plus free cava for part of the night and cheap beer for the rest. I probably knew 20-30 people there, which was pretty incredible for me. I am going to miss my social life here so much. We stayed at that bar until it closed, then I went to a club on paseo maritimo with a bunch of the erasmus students to dance for the rest of the night. Again, so much fun. I can't even begin to describe how much fun I have with these people. Brittany and I danced all night and drank a liter of whiskey and coke.. so much fun. After we left there around 5am, we all headed home to sleep. This was my second week night of not getting home until 6am.. win.
Friday:
I slept... a lot. I woke up super late and met some erasmus students at the beach to hang out during the afternoon. I was pressured into playing circle volleyball with them since I was the only one not playing. They soon discovered why I did not want to play after the number of balls I missed. It was pretty funny, and I am sure they enjoyed laughing at my leet volleyball skills. After I got back from the beach, I noticed that I have actual tan lines. My body is actually taking in some sun and not completely burning.. yay! After the beach, I went back to sleep. Keep in mind, at this point, I had literally gone out every night except for Monday since the previous Thursday. I was pretty exhausted, to say the least. I woke up at 1am to a phone call from a friend begging me to go out, but I was so exhausted that I did not want to move. So I slept more.
Saturday:
What an epic day! We were invited to a beach party with all the erasmus people and also some people from a German private school here. Brittany and I met up early around 11am to get some food to barbeque and drinks. We also were desperately searching for a cooler and found one at the low price of 70 euros (are you kidding me??!?!?!). So we improvised and turned Brittany's backpack into a cooler, which worked so perfectly. We also did this sitting on a bench in front of Corte, while a man laughed hysterically at us filling up a backpack with ice and loading it with beer. We bought some sausages to grill, some other food, and plenty of beer. We made our way to the beach, filling up enough space for about 4 people on the bus with all of our bags of food and stuff. By the time we got to the beach, we were exhausted from carrying all of our stuff and were ready for an ice cold beer from our backpack cooler.. good thing it worked! We immediately got into the water, which was chilly but so refreshing, and began a wonderful day. The Germans had a power generator and a source of music so we danced to music all day and night, thanks to their ingenious invention. They also brought a small grill, so we were able to grill food on the beach which was so much fun and so yummy. We stood in the water a lot, because it was pretty shallow which meant it was slightly warm, but not really. Brittany and I were in the water longer than anyone and were having a heart to heart conversation as the sun was setting behind the mountains.. it was pretty epic. I had a little bit too much to drink, so I can't say I remember the whole night. All I know is that I had an amazing time, and I truly love all my new friends.. and the beach. We took the last bus back to Palma around 1am.
Sunday:
Yes, you guessed it, I slept until about 3pm. Trust me, I needed it after Saturday night. I sat around and did nothing, then I went to the Belgian beer bar just like every Sunday. It is such a fun tradition. We discussed how a Toyota Corolla is considered a small car in the U.S. and is considered normal/big in Europe, how to say "there's something wrong with your face" in Flemish, and other riveting things like that. I really enjoy talking about these slight differences among countries and cultures. It is fascinating and so much fun to talk about with friends.
This week, I made a lot of party and had so much fun. I think I also gained about 20 new Facebook friends this week. More to come.
besos,
Lynne
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