Where have I been? Classes started 2 weeks ago. Like actual real classes at the university. I was sick the first week of school with a cold, but I got over it quickly with the help of some medicine from the pharmacy. I was very, very lost the first week of school. The classes are difficult. I mean, you can imagine that they would be difficult since I'm not a native Spanish speaker and all of my classes are in Spanish. The professors talk fast and when I'm trying to translate what they've said, they're already onto another completely different topic. So, it's been a little hard especially when trying to take notes. I'm just lost. Luckily, there's not really homework, just lectures. At least I don't think there is homework.... Everything is online in this thing called AulaVirtual, but I don't have anything on mine yet because I haven't registered for my classes. Maybe there is homework and I just don't know about it. School has just been one confusing shit show the past 2 weeks. I don't think my Spanish is improving at all from the classes. I just sit there lost and try not to fall asleep. I went out like every day last week. Tuesday night because we didn't have classes on Wednesday. Wednesday night because I don't know, why not? Thursday night because fuck it, it's Thursday. On Friday morning, I went to Granada with the Erasmus group here. It was all international students on the trip, I think there were like 150 of us or something. We took 2 buses to Granada, it took like 3 hours. I was super fucking tired because I had only gotten like 1 hour of sleep the night before. We visited La Alhambra after we checked into our hostel. Our hostel (pictured here to the right -->) was pretty nice for a hostel besides the fact that 20 people had to share the same bathroom. La Alhambra was absolutely beautiful, but we had to walk up a huge ass hill which was dreadful because I'm hella out of shape. Then we walked around the place for like 3 hours or some shit and my feet were hurting and I was still tired as shit. By the end of it we were all ready to leave. These are all pictures from La Alhambra, very beautiful place. If you ever travel to Granada, this is a must see. But you need to buy your tickets in advance! They have over 8,000 visitors a day!! After we finished visiting La Alhambra, we had free time until the party that night. Instead of being lame and napping, I went to get tapas and drinks with a group of like 14 people. The place we went to was kind of expensive and I wanted real food like actual dinner, not just tapas. Me and a few other people decided to leave to find some place less expensive and with more things than just tapas. We thought the girls leading us knew where they were going and that we weren't just wandering around. It turned out they were just looking for another tapas place so I don't understand why the fuck we left in the first place. I also thought they had a place in mind, but they were actually just walking until they found something even though we had walked past like 50 places. I started to get really fucking annoyed because when I'm hungry, I get angry. It's called being hangry. So I kind of yelled at one of the girls because they weren't responding to me and my friend. Then she asked me to speak Spanish and I'm like I don't fucking feel like speaking Spanish right now, I'm hungry and tired of walking. We left and found something by ourselves. Then I felt kinda bad because my friend told me she doesn't really speak English.... oops. I apologized to her the next day though and she was really happy that I did. That night we went to a club/bar. It was alright. We were all really tired though. I had a rum and coke that took me forever to drink because it was kind of strong. I had a couple of shots too. Smoked a joint, then walked back to the hostel. We slept in until about 1 pm the next day because we had a free morning until 3:30. We walked around the city for a while and ate food then we went on a walking tour with the group to a very beautiful viewpoint. This is La Alhambra (from afar). The picture really doesn't do it justice. I think I took some on my GoPro, but I haven't uploaded any of those to my computer yet. And here's the city. Once I put my GoPro stuff on my computer, I'll see if I can find a picture that has the whole view in it. We hung out at the spot for a little bit. Got a drink that I forget the name of, but it was just white wine and sprite. Rebujito, I just looked it up haha. It's a common Spanish drink. Aftr that we walked back to the hostel and laid down for a bit until the Flamenco show we were going to later. The Flamenco show was really cool. I have some videos, but I can't post videos here unless I put them on YouTube first or pay for the upgraded Weebly. After Flamenco, we had another party. We had to take a bus because it was 30 minutes walking. I got two rum and cokes there, it costs 10 euros which is a little much, but I didn't mind because they filled more than half the cup with rum. We stayed there until around 4 because that's when the bus was coming back and there was no one I was gonna walk. Smoked a joint with a friend then fell asleep like a fucking baby. Unfortunately, I had to wake up at 10 am to check out of the hostel. We had the whole day free which kind of sucked because we were all exhausted. We walked around for a while, got food, walked some more. Saw the Cathedral, tried to go to a Botanic Garden but it was closed. There is a lot of Arabian influence in Granada. We were tired of walking eventually, so we went to a restaurant to get a drink then ended up smoking hookah and sitting there for like 2 hours until it was time to go. Finally we got on the bus and I fell asleep for a while then we played an odd game and we arrived back to Murcia around 10:30. I was so tired, but I had to shower and make my bed and then I ended up watching Netflix for some reason. I slept until about 12 the next day though and totally missed my first class.
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Maddie Lang
Dreamer. Adventurer. Wallflower. Lover. Fighter. Kentuckian / Californian. Finding my purpose in the world. Archives
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