I am so excited for Carnaval. It officially starts this Friday and goes through Tuesday night. There are parades, costumes, drinks, parties in tents, and apparently, so much more. I’m just counting down the days until I can put on my superhero outfit and celebrate Carnaval in the town with the 3rd best party in Spain. Finding costumes has been filled with drama. Well, really just one day of drama. I bought a detective costume (don’t ask why…it was a bad decision) and when I got home and tried it on, it looked awful. Not only did it look awful, but also there were holes in it. So I took the costume and the magnifying glass accessory I had bought back to the store, not twenty minutes after buying it. Upon trying to return it, the owner lady showed me the holes and said, “These weren’t here before.” I said, “Um, yes. They were. I promise you.” After some debate, she finally murmured something incoherent. I asked her to repeat herself and with an eye-roll, she told me to go talk to one of the worker men to get a store credit. I went to the man and got the credit. He told me to go back to the lady to see if I wanted them to order anything from their catalogue. I went over, the lady said something, again incoherent, repeated herself upon my request, then looked at another customer and said (in Spanish of course), “Ugh, she doesn’t understand anything.” Referring to me. I said, “I understand you, “ starring her straight in the eyes, then told her I would come back later to use the credit. So stupid. Eventually I went back and got a firefighter costume…never going back to that store again. Oh, and they never gave me the money back for the magnifying glass. They robbed me of my 3 euros.
These past few weeks have been pretty uneventful. I went into Madrid to see a friend from the States who was there on vacation with some of his friends, so it was good to see a familiar face. Other than that, I’ve been saving money by not traveling too much for Carnaval and my spring break trip at the end of March. I’m going to be going to…ITALY! Yes…again. But I’m obsessed with it. I love that country. One of my best friends from college is going to meet me there and we’re going to see Florence, Pisa, Cinque Terra, and wherever else we can manage to get to during our weeklong vacation.
School has been good. I should seriously be documenting all of the funny stories I come home with each day, in case I ever feel the need to publish a bestseller about my life here…but there are just so many. For Valentine’s Day this week, the students have been writing “Roses are red” poems. They’re hilarious. Even the bad ones are great. “Roses are red, violets are blue, I am me, and you are you.” “Roses are red, Violets are blue, I think you might be sick, Go take a Tamiflu.” Classic.
Here’s a nice, romantic picture of the Moralo sunset for you…Feliz Día de San Valentín!
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