I said I was going to write about last weekend and post pictures so here we are! I actually can't remember what I did last weekend now, wait I actually mean last last weekend. I'll just tell you about Sunday of that weekend because I can not remember Friday and Saturday. I'm assuming I did what I do every Friday and Saturday which is go out and drink. Maybe something significant and worth writing about happened, but maybe not since I don't remember. Ok actually I just looked at pictures to refresh my mind. I went out with my British friends on Friday night, but I went home kind of early cause I was tired and there was nothing really to do, I mean besides spend all of my money on drinks. On Saturday, I went to the huge mall with my bff and ate mashed potatoes. Not too sure what I did that night, guess I went out. I remember Sunday completely because I went to a beautiful beach!! It was a national park called Calblanque. I went with Erasmus (international students) and there were a shit ton of us like 4 buses full. We took up a good stretch of the beach. The water wasn't that warm, but it felt real nice. I'm trying to tan my boobs, so I went topless and was literally the only one in the group that was topless. I think all the girls were judging me like look at this bitch. I'm just tryin tan my tits man. This beach was beautiful. My friends and I went on a walk to explore and we came across a nude beach! Like a real deal nude beach! There were just dicks and tits and vagina everywhere. It was really funny. I'm a child and was trying not to laugh, but it was just so funny because these guys are just sitting there with their legs wide open and their junk just out like hey. I was also trying to take a GoPro video, but it was kind of awkward cause I didn't want these people to think I was taking a video of them.
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I have to be awake in 6 hours, but I can't bring myself to fall asleep. I should probably stop taking naps so late in the day so that I could go to sleep at a decent hour. I also just realized that I haven't posted in a long while. My bad, yo. I could say that I've been busy, but that'd be a lie. I spend my free time watching Netflix instead. I just started Bates Motel again, I had watched the first season a few years ago, but obviously didn't remember any of it. That show is whack, but I love it. It keeps you on your toes. I was sick last week and it was the first week of school. The classes I had picked were like way harder than I was expecting. Actually, I was expecting them to be pretty damn hard, but I was completely lost so I had to switch every thing around. Now I'm only going to take 4 classes instead of 5, cause why stress? I'm studying abroad, man, I'm here to party, not learn. Just kidding. Kind of. This weekend was fun. I moved rooms in my flat, so now I have the room in the attic which is up this spiral staircase and there's a double bed, a TV, and an air conditioner unit. It's pretty dope. I love having a double bed, I can finally sleep diagonal and weird again. There was an international welcome party thing on Friday night and I saw bunches of people I knew. I've become that person that drinks tequila shots because why not? I hate the taste, but I feel like it's the fastest way to get drunk. I didn't really end up getting drunk on Friday, ok I was a little, but then I just got hungry (typical). I hung out with my new bff all night and made some new friends. We ate pizza and sat in a park and talked until 4ish am. On Saturday, I went to dinner with my bff, we got Chinese food and it was actually really damn good. I wanted to go out and drink cause it was the weekend, what else would I do? I obviously couldn't go alone, so luckily my bff (I gotta think of a name for him or see if he doesn't care if I just put his real name) accompanied me to the bars. We went one place, had 3 tequila shots within less than 30 minutes. Then we went to another place where my friend was working. I think we had 2 shots of jaeger there and then 2 or 3 shots of some yummy mixed thing and a mixed drink of some sorts. We went to this dance club I like that plays mostly electronic music and had a shot of vodka caramel there. If you've never tried vodka caramel, try it, it tastes like candy. After that, we went to another place that we'd never heard of nor been to and it turned out to be a gay bar! It was pretty cool, I mean there were just a bunch of gay men around me, but I digged the atmosphere. The bartenders were only wearing little underwear and they all had the same fake tattoos drawn on them. At first, I thought they were real, but then I was like hm that's odd, they all have the same tattoos? Then I looked closer and realized it was fucking marker. Weird. We got a mixed drink called a beefeater. It was really strong. We danced there for a long time, then it was getting more crowded and I think I was one of maybe 3-4 straight people in the place. My bff had made some friends, so I decided to go back to the place where my friend was working. Let me mention that I was pretty damn drunk at this point. It was almost 4 am and that's when my friend's place was closing and then we could go smoke. I got a mixed drink there, but I was like hmm I can't do this and had maybe 2-3 sips. So we went to smoke and it was probably just me being really drunk or maybe it was the fact that I haven't smoked weed like real weed in a long ass time and it was out of a pipe, but I ended up getting hella cross faded and throwing up. That was embarrassing and also hasn't happened in such a long time like since maybe freshmen year of college. When I woke up, I felt fine, but then it was hot outside and I felt weird again. I drank water, but just puked it up. Went back to sleep and woke up at like 7 or 8 pm. It was a rough day. I think writing has helped me get tired. But I'm also wanting a cigarette except I'm out, well I can roll one, but I suck at it. Actually I've gotten a lot better. I also feel bad going downstairs because my flatmate is asleep and my stairs are loud as fuck. I should probably just go to sleep, but I don't know if I can. I need to write about last weekend and upload pictures. Next time. I'll write in reverse chronological order. I'm going to Granada this weekend! Super excited. Just gotta get through classes. Luckily, I haven't had homework and I'm beginning to wonder if I ever will. I know in one of my classes we have 3 "practicas", but maybe they just don't do homework here? So far it's just been lecture, lecture, lecture. And you take an exam at the end of the semester. As long as I pass all of my classes, I am goodddd.
Yesterday was a holiday in Murcia, so we didn't have class. So, on Monday I went over to my classmates flat and drank with them, then we went out to the bars. I didn't really drink that much, just a few beers and a rum and coke. My stomach felt a little funny, so I kept it casual. I had a terrible nightmare that night that woke me up from my sleep. Someone stabbed in the neck twice and then I woke up like holy shit. I couldn't really fall back asleep after that, so I just laid in bed and ate chips for a while. Then, I watched tv and made a sandwich. I was really craving some American food, so my friend told me about a place here that has mashed potatoes (those are my favorite). We walked his dog to a dog park first and I was in heaven. I love dogs and there were so many, it was great. Then we went to the restaurant and I was even more in heaven.
My weeks are low key boring right now because I'm stuck taking class in the morning for 3 hours. Sometimes I'll go out on a weekday but then it's really hard to wake up for class in the morning. Luckily it's only until 1 pm this week, so I can take a siesta afterwards. I just look forward to the weekend every week. Tomorrow is a holiday so we don't have class which means I get to go out tonight! I'm going to go to my friend's flat and drink with them first, maybe hopefully smoke some weed then go out to the bars. It should be fun because most likely every student in the Spanish classes will be out tonight since we don't have class tomorrow haha. And on Wednesday there is an ESN (Erasmus Student Network) welcome party at one of the bars, so I'll probably go to that because it will be all international students. Except then class on Thursday will be painful. Oh well, I guess. This weekend was cool. I went out on Friday and got pretty damn drunk like to the point where I had a terrible headache the next day. I don't really get hungover but I drank a lot (for me). 3 small tequila sunrises, a tequila shot, a beer, 2 shots of vodka, and some more beer. In that order. So I was fucked up and couldn't find any of my friends, well actually I found some, but not the ones I was looking for haha. I went home kind of early (3:30) and fell asleep. Slept basically all day on Saturday. But I did go out and see the parade in the city which was boring, but cool because there were horses and I like horses. On Sunday, I woke up early and headed to the bus station to meet my friends for a beach day! The bus ride took forever (like almost 2 hours) because we had to stop every 5 seconds to pick someone up or drop someone off. My friend's friend planned this, so we ended up getting off the bus in basically the middle of nowhere. Walked straight and luckily ran into the beach. It was pretty, but not as pretty as I was expecting. There was a guy alone at the cafe there and he had his dog with him, but he wanted to go swim, so he asked us if we could watch his dog while he goes. We had a dog for like 10 minutes, it was a chihuahua named Elvis. I don't really like chihuahuas, but Elvis was pretty rad. I took this awesome picture of the guy and Elvis. Just a man and his dog. We spent like 6 hours at the beach. The water here is pretty warm because it's the Mediterranean Sea, so I was able to actually enjoy the water. We had a hell of a time trying to get back to Murcia. I guess on Sunday's the bus only comes twice a day, once at sometime around 12 and once at 8:50 pm. We didn't know where to catch the bus either because the driver that dropped us off said the bus wouldn't stop here later. We ended up walking like 20 or 25 minutes to the next stop then had to wait for an hour and a half. Luckily, there was a pretty sunset to watch. Also, I saw this cool gate to a house that I liked. And I peed in some bushes. Finally, we got on the bus and it took about an hour and a half to get back to Murcia. To get back home to my place, I would have had to walk 20 minutes to the tram then take the tram for another 20 minutes and I was so tired, so luckily my friend drove me home and we stopped to eat because I was really hungry. YEAH COOL STORY.
Things are looking up. I may have overreacted a bit when I first got here, but can you blame me? I moved into a new place yesterday and it's great, I'm sitting under the air conditioner right now watching tv on the couch. There is a pool that I can use, too. My room is nice with a much more comfortable bed than before. The house (it's actually a duplex), but it's pretty big like a small house is so nice. My landlady is the sweetest, she picked me up and drove me here. Then she was making lunch and since I hadn't eaten, she offered to make some for me and it was delicious. She's also an artist so the whole place is covered in her art and it's beautiful. I have made some friends here too. I actually met this girl in my class who is super cool, I'm really glad I met her. We're going to be travel buddies. She has a cousin that lives in Berlin and flights to there are super cheap so we're gonna go one weekend. Possibly Amsterdam, too. I might as well go as many places as I can while I'm over here in Europe because it's so cheap to fly from country to country. I'm getting used to the city, I have been walking around and I saw the beautiful Cathedral of Murcia.
IT IS HOT AS FUCK HERE. I thought it was hot in Lisbon, but haha noooo, compared to here, Lisbon was cold. Not really, but holy mother of god, I think I'm going to die of heat. It was 99 yesterday, 103 today, and the high tomorrow is supposed to be 110. Of course, there is no air conditioning in this god awful apartment. It's also on the 3rd floor and heat rises so just fucking kill me please. I have class for 3 and a half hours in the morning tomorrow, so hopefully they'll have the air conditioning on. Maybe I'll just stay there all day. I don't think that's allowed haha. It's uncomfortable being this hot. The only thing to do is lay in bed and die. I'm going to turn into a shriveled up human, like grapes when they turn into raisins. Spain, chill the fuck out, please.
My adventure to Murcia was quite a difficult one. I took a bus from Lisbon to Sevilla, that took 6 hours. Arrived in Sevilla around 9:30. Ate dinner from a vending machine, it was disgusting. I haven't had a real meal in so long it seems. I just keep eating junk because I don't really like any food here, except pasta. The bus from Sevilla to Murcia was 8ish hours, it seemed like forever. We stopped every 30 minutes to pick up like 1 person. We left at 11 pm and didn't get to Murcia until 8 am (1 hour time difference). I barely slept on the bus because people kept sitting next to me and it was uncomfortable as fuck. I would have read, but I can't read in a moving vehicle. I pretty much just spent the whole ride trying to sleep, sleeping for 20 minutes, then trying again. Once I finally got to Murcia, I got some breakfast (just a donut) at the bus station then went to my apartment. I hate it. It's on the 3rd floor so I had to drag my 2 50lb bags up the stairs. There were no towels for the shower. I ended up using this tapestry thing I bought in Lisbon. I don't know if there's a hot water switch I don't know about, but I took a cold shower. It was the most terrible shower of my life. Also, the shower is the size of a small closet. You have to hold the shower head the whole time. There was no toilet paper either. I can't figure out how the keys work for the door. The bed is uncomfortable as fuck. The only thing I like about this place is my "balcony". It's not actually a balcony, it's just like a little sun room attached to my room. So, at least I get a breeze. I'm not that high maintenance, but god this place is awful. I haven't unpacked because I'm going to see if I can move. It is right across from a park which is nice and I can see the university from my window, but I don't know if I'll be studying at this campus or the other, sooo. The first thing I did when I got here was break down and cry. I think it was the lack of sleep and the transition and the shit hole of a place I have to call home for the next 5 months. I slept for a while then went out to get dinner and get a Spanish sim card. The city seems really nice. But this apartment sucks, I hope I can move because thinking about living here for 5 months makes me want to die. I miss home.. wherever that is. I miss Lisbon. I can barely speak Spanish, I don't know what the fuck I'm doing here, well I'm learning Spanish, but why? I wish I could just call this quits and go back to San Diego and finish my business classes and say fuck this whole Spanish thing. But my mom just paid my tuition and housing for here and I don't think you can get refunds on that. I miss my dog and the comfort of my own house (which is no longer my house). School in San Diego has already started, too. I don't want to be here. I need to smoke some weed or get drunk. Good thing it's Friday.
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Maddie Lang
Dreamer. Adventurer. Wallflower. Lover. Fighter. Kentuckian / Californian. Finding my purpose in the world. Archives
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