On Wednesday, my group finally presented in Culture Class about our movies. It went really well. Rachel Eisen even gave me a huge compliment and said that she was impressed when we were presenting because it felt like we were just talking and thinking of what we wanted to say and not how we wanted to say it, just like as if we were presenting in English. I was quite smitten with this compliment. Rachel, if you ever read this, muchas gracias chica!
Immediately after culture class, Juan hosted a Slang Seminar for our UF group so that we could learn different phrases that people use in Andalusia to try and incorporate it into our daily vocab. Here are some of the awesome ones:
- "Es la leche": this is awesome
- "Mi arma": my love... this is supposed to be pronounced "mi alma", but the slang way is with an R and not an L
- "Voy bien": I'm drunk
- "Me parto de risa": I'm cracking up
- "Esto es un cachondeo": This is a joke
- "Esto es de coña": This is hilarious
- "Mala leche": bad intention, mean
- "Estas de coña?": are you serious?
- "Estoy flipando": I'm freaking out
- "Se me cae la baba": I'm head over heels in love
- "Estas como un tren": You are hot
- "Estas como un queso": You are hot
- "Hacer manitas": make out
- "Ligar": to flirt
- "Estas mas buena que el pan": You are SUPER hot
- "Eres para comerte": (said to a baby) I could just eat you up!
- "El taco": a stack of money
- "Estoy tieso": I'm broke
- "Estas quedando conmigo?": are you kidding me?
(clearly the BEST picture Juan has ever taken jajajaj)
When I finally got home, I had vegetable soup for lunch, which was tasty. For dinner, we had revueltos and then I met up with Sara and Maggie to have ice cream over in Triana because I was ITCHING to get out of the house and take advantage of the very short time we had left in Sevilla. We met up and headed to Mascarpone. After our tasty sweet treat, I peer pressured Maggie and Sara into staying out a little bit longer to enjoy some sangria together since it was our last Wednesday in Sevilla. It was totes vale la pena because it was only 7.50 for the jarra and it was super duper tasty.
After our lovely and casual night out, I snapped some pretty pictures of Calle Betis along the river at night. Then, we each headed home. I half ass studied for my culture exam when I got back home, but really just passed out.
On Thursday, we had an exam in culture class that I finished in 30 minutesm which meant I had an extra hour and 30 minutes of time to kill before lunch. I decided to go search for more souvenir gifts for my family. It was successful. When I got home we had lunch and the DELISH gazpacho for dessert! Then, Cassie and I went out to go shopping again. Yes, the shopping never ends. Here, I was introduced to the 2 STORY STRADIVARIUS!!! AHHHHH. A dream come true. Stradivarius is TOTALLY my favorite store in Sevilla and we recently found out that if you try to shop online, you can’t ship to the US. Who knows why, but aka we have to take advantage of the store while we’re here. PERO, I had already purchased an outfit from the 1 story Stradivarius a couple streets away. I just walked around this glorious store and miraculously resisted purchasing every pair of party pants they had… which was like 20 different pairs.
Then we went to Rayas ice cream where I ordered Suspiro (cookies and cream, but wayyyy better than what they serve in the US because the oreos pieces were HUGE) and Chocolate con Trozos. It was supes delish. Then, I left Cassie to keep shopping because I had planned to meet MJ at ISA at 630pm to get her opinion about what I should do in Madrid since we would be arriving around 4am to the airport and my flight wasn’t till 5pm. When I arrived, we didn’t have time to do any coordinating. She had to head out to go pick up the food for our Goodbye Dinner that we were having that night at the office at 730. I offered to help her so we hustled across the city to go get 10 Liters of Gazpacho. It was sooooo hot, so MJ hailed a cab for us to bring the gazpacho back.
When we got back it was time to have our final meeting (tear :( ) and then have our Goodbye Dinner of Gazpacho and Tortilla Espanola. We also had all signed a "NO 8 DO" flag to give to Reynaldo as a thank you for being so awesome and to wish him well on his retirement. He loved it, claro.... "how nice" hahahaha
Then we all sat around in one of the classrooms chatting and enjoying the delicious food. I took a moment to step back and observe everyone. It was really awesome to see how everyone had all become best friends and watch everyone having such happy conversations together. I decided to snap pics of everyone.
Then we had a big group photoshoot one last time.
MJ agreed to go hang out with us in Plaza Salvador, so a big group of us headed over there. There were TONS of people in the plaza that night so we hung out here for a good while. MJ and I were walking around scoping out the boys trying to see who I should try to talk to but then we sat down at a table just her and I and started having one of our many conversations about life and boys and etc. Then, we looked up and my whole group had left. No pasa nada, I had a pretty good idea they have moseyed over to Plaza Alfalfa. MJ saw that another one of our groups of girls was over at a restaurant so we walked over to them and had a Jarra of sangria together.
After that, Sarah Diamond and I made our way to Plaza Alfalfa. We found the group immediately and saw that Cassie had been having a little "too much" fun. haha After she was carefully guided home by Katherine and David, we had one of our many wild nights in Alfalfa.
As I was walking with Deonna and Gatita, we found a group of French guys... who only spoke French. This was no good, because we DON'T speak French. Gatita thought she did and proceeded to show them by saying "Un, deux, trois"... shockingly they weren't impressed LOLZ.
We walked away from them and encountered a group of 5 or so boys who immediately told us that one of their friends was a professional Matador. They were like "look at his muscles, look how strong he is, it's all because he's a bull fighter!" (all in spanish of course). Well... being the intoxicated girls we were... we bought it. As you all know, this is not my first time in believing a blatantly obvious lie. EVENTUALLY, we caught on to the joke hahaha.
I got to chatting with the Matador, who's real name was Diego. Found out we had the same taste in music which SHOCKINGLY included Alanis Morisette, Incubus and Foo Fighters. I literally LOVE those artists. It was insane in the membrane that he liked them too. We started playing the music on his iPhone and singing and dancing along. It was pretty hilarious to hear him singing along to Alanis Morisette because obviously he doesn't know all the words because the song is in English. We chatted it up until around 4am and then called it a night and decided we would meet up the next afternoon (Friday) in Plaza Salvador for drinks again.
Hasta Luego,
Raquel
lol looks like this was a fun night with everyone. It's nice to meet people and continue friendships, which is so much easier now with FaceBook and email.
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