Hello!!!! So clearly this is my third week here in Spain, and don't worry I'm still just as pumped about it as I was in my last posts! A lot happened this week and I want to tell you all about it so here it goes!
Well first of all, classes are going great. I had to work on a group project and I am so fortunate to have a great group for the semester in my business class! I've had to pick some topics for my term papers in my other classes but that's pretty much it school wise.
Oh! I started the workshop which gives me a certification in teaching english as a second language so I'm super excited to have that experience starting up. As I said before, I feel that teaching children English will be a great opportunity for me to grow as a person, and for those of you who know me, maybe I'll even warm up to the children seeing as I don't mesh/click well with them. (But we'll see.)
On Friday I had an extra credit trip to the beautiful part of Madrid called Alcalà. It was a hike to get there but it was downright gorgeous. From the grass to the beautiful architecture, my eyes were bugging out of my head! In high school I learned all about Don Quijote so we were able to visit his house and that was probably my favorite part of the day! Obviously, I took a millions pictures both of him, his house and the archeological museum that we also went to that day. My professor whom I went with pointed out that he could differentiate the schools we all went to back home quite easily saying that Stonehill College students and Chapman University students strive for excellence more so than the actual Suffolk students so he can tell who we are which made me feel a little bit proud of myself. While there are a ton of kids from different schools studying at Suffolk Madrid, most are actual Suffolk kids and Chapman University with always a few Stonehill students.
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| Alcalà! |
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| Just me being weird at the museum |
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| Outside Don Quijote's house! |
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| Alcalà! |
Ah, my other friend, Becca, who also goes to Stonehill and was here last semester is back for an internship and Lisa and I visited her apartment that same Friday night and it was lovely seeing another familiar face. For most students our age a Friday night would consist of going to a bar, getting hammered and going to club, but as you may know from my last post, Lisa and I are not about that so this past Friday we went out for some late night churros and chocolate which were amazing!!! It was so nice to have Becca show us some neat little spots are shortcuts around the city that night!
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| Churros con chocolate |
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| Stonehill girls! |
Saturday during the day I did some homework and relaxed, then Saturday night all of the API met up at a place called Dubliners where we caught up and just had a great time! Of course a few girls were headed to the club later but Lisa, Sam and I headed home where our doorman gave us a bit of a hard time about not being "partiers", but that's fine.
Sunday our friend Becca showed us the biggest flea market in Spain and it was AMAZING! It had everything you could have possibly thought of and there was honestly no way we could have seen it all, when I say it was massive, it was just OMG. That was a nice way to start off our Sunday morning. Then later on we went out for Tapas with another girl in our program, Dani, who is doing a home stay. The place we went, El Tigre, had great prices and it is definitely a spot we plan to hit up again.
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| El Rastro, the flea market! |
So, that's it for this week! I'll be sure to get in touch next week!
xoxo,
Michelle
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