The OFFICIAL End of Midterm Week

I know this might be overwhelming since I just wrote a 7 page post about Italy, but I want to get all caught up! I’m still two weeks behind, but don’t worry this will be short and sweet. I’ll only give ya the good stuff.

Angeles and Emilio have become a lot more comfortable with us and subsequently a lot more hilarious. Some highlights:

Background: We’re going to Morocco next week.

A: “Did you know you could have 3 wives in Morocco?”

E: “Yea! All you have to do is go up to a girl’s father and be like ‘I want to marry your daughter. I have 5 cows and 3 goats,’ and you can have her!”

A: “It’s true. Emilio has a girlfriend in Morocco.”

E: “No. I don’t have enough goats.”

A: “What are you smoking?”

E: “I don’t smoke. I’m a Christian.”

Background: Angeles offers us a weird hamburger-esque thing for lunch. We choose not to partake.

A: “You didn’t eat anything!”

Nicole and Erin: “Yes we did! We had vegetables and bread and a personal pizza with ham type of thing! And a banana!”

A: -looks at both of us- “No. You ate nothing.”

Background: Nicole has finished her meal (obvi), Erin has not eaten her bread.

E (to A, in other room): “ERIN NEEDS MORE BREEEEEEEEAD! AND I DIDN’T GET ANYYYYYY!”

Erin: “No! I’m fine! And you can have mine.”

E (to A, in other room): “I’M GOING TO HAVE ERIN’S!” to us: “I’m being abandoned here.”

Background: Erin has been feeling cold lately

A: “Why are you so cold all the time?”

Erin: “It’s cold in this house!”

A: “You’re cold blooded.” Gives her three blankets, slippers, and a space heater. It is now 100 degrees in Erin’s room.

Background: Erin didn’t finish her lunch and wasn’t feeling well. Nicole did and feels fine (once again, obvi.):

A: “Why didn’t finish your meal? Nicole did. She’s strong.”

E: “Aren’t I strong?”

A: “No. Nicole’s strong. You’re weak.”

(I’m basically trying to demonstrate that I’m the favorite child.)

Background: Erin is in her room studying.

A: “Erin! Erin! Come here! Come see Emilio! He’s watching football! He LOVES football! It’s his favorite. He’s so excited about it!”

Erin follows to find Emilio PASSED OUT on the couch.

A: “He does this all the time…watch. Ask him about it tomorrow. He’ll say he saw the whole entire thing. And who won. And how exciting it was.”

*Next day at lunch*

A: “Eat now, because you wouldn’t want to interrupt watching the football game, right?”

E: “I WAS JUST THINKING! I WASN’T ASLEEP!”

Background: Chaele and her friend Taylor come to visit from Paris! Chaele come to OUR APARTMENT to eat dinner! She speaks zero Spanish!

A: “Does she speak Spanish?”

Erin: “No, but she speaks French!”

A: “French? Who needs French? The only languages are Spanish and English.”

AWESOMEEEEEEEE.

So, as you could infer – Chaele and Taylor came to visit last weekend! It was so fun! On Friday night we went on a pub crawl with their hostel. We met an Australian who didn’t know if California was on the east coast or the west coast (because he got his left and right confused?), and a Maryland grad who was a huge Duke fan!!!! Obviously, it was exciting. We thought we’d found some new bars, but obviously our “social chair” John had already been to all of them. The next day, we went and did some touristy things! We saw the Reina Sofia which was awesome, got lunch at the MONTADITOS PLACE which was even more awesome, got dessert at the famous Mercado San Miguel by Plaza Mayor, and went to Retiro to enjoy some Tinto de Verano by the lake. WEIRD: we ran into some Duke kids studying in Barcelona randomly in Retiro. WHY ARE DUKE PEOPLE EVERYWHERE? It was very cool. We went out Saturday night to the club that’s literally right across the river! This is exciting because we could walk there and it was free. Overall success.

Sunday – today = SO MUCH WORK. 3 tests, 20 minute presentation and 7 page paper – all in Spanish, all in one week. Luckily, we’re done!! (Well, we have a 30 min presentation next week, but I’m not worried about that right now.) As mentioned in the previous post (unless you haven’t yet read it – in which case, what are you doing here?) Julie and Nichols are here for the weekend! We’re about to go head out to meet them. With this post, I am officially caught up on all things - let the weekend truly begin!