Barcelona

Relaxing to get away for the weekend! Even if it means sitting on a bus for 8 (!) hours. Haha, that's right.. almost 9 even.. but Barcelona is soooo beautiful I wanna go more often. I went to meet up with some friends from Denmark, I really wish I'd had one more day though! Because we didn't actually see anything haha, just went to the beach and then hit the bars at night.. and an occasional late night stop to Burger King, mm.

I'm so tired right now, I can't believe I actually went to school today.. got home last night at 01:00 and then I couldn't fall asleep for some reason! And I hadn't slept on the bus either so imagine what I look like right now. 

I had a good time, it was so nice seeing everybody again - after all I have been gone a little over 3 months! Doesn't seem like it at all.. I'm still kinda broke but I managed to have fun haha, even though on friday night as we were walking towards the beach I fell FLAT on both my knees on the road. Fuck that hurt, it was bleeding but thankfully the alcohol made the pain less intense hahaha.. it still hurts when I walk though, but what can you do!

Ouch!!

I didn't take as many pictures as I would've liked because my battery died on the second day.. typical. And the ones I did take are either blurry or dark, so I have maybe a good 10 pictures left haha! 

Gonna go relax now, after a weekend of fun - and ooohh the beach!

XOXO

Life is good, I have chorizo

Learned to kinda love chorizo while here in Spain. Guess I've only had bad chorizo before I came here! Anyways, that was totally off topic. What a beautiful today today! 26 degrees and sunny - met up with Paula and Courtney and went to visit Templo de Debod (as Paula still hadn't been after 3 months, and now she is leaving :( aw..) and just walked around the city..

My salad the other day.. I'm actually lucky I found vegetables in the fridge! Spaniards have strange eating habits, not sure if I like it! So I usually make my own food; sooo much better.

Also went to the english book/coffee shop, J&J, in Noviciado (calle Espitiru Santo) and got a couple of old books. I've started reading alot recently, find that time passes faster on the bus if I'm reading; even though it's only like 20mins. So yea, picked up this creepy looking book, apparently a thriller of some kind about a psycho stalker.. sounds good to me!

Weird stuff has been happening lately while in the city, I feel like I get stopped everyday by either some school kids doing a project, or people taking pictures for magazines; it's actually kinda ridiculous how many times just this last week it happened haha. I was just walking by myself close to Tribunal when these 2 guys with huge cameras came up to me and wanted to take a picture of my outfit for a magazine; apparently they will post the pictures online next week so they'll contact me on Facebook.. interesting. I was talking to Paula before and she said, but what if it's one of those "Russian girls looking for YOU" -ads you see online!? Hahahah, it better not be ;)

XOXO

After the storm

..comes BROWNIES! And very delicious ones, I am very proud. Went to the Danish embassy today and sorted a few things out.. need to apply for a new license plus make a temporary one which will cost me about 100 euro which SUCKS, but I need to get it done. Took some new pictures as well but they turned out SO ugly, I need to go back. 

So when I got home I was just in a really bad mood, so I decided to make brownies with Mary. Yummmmmm. Served with sliced strawberries and whipped cream, FUCK YEAH!

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Gotta go back and watch the rest of the game now - please Real Madrid, win!!! But Messi is playing damn good today.. but so is Casillas with his saves! Gotta love that guy aahhh.. 

XOXO

Good and bad times

Crazy weekend, easily said. Started out with Taylor's birthday party on friday night which went a little out of hand with too early drinking at his place and ended with me throwing up on Gran Vía at 03:00 haha. Besides that a super fun night.. a lot of Mint Quesadas (Taylor and Pauls invention of a drink, named after their street haha) and Crema Catalana. Which is NOT meant to be consumed by the liter..lesson learned! Anyways, here are some pictures.

Happy birthday Taylor!!

Notice the red cups! Soooooo american hahaha.

Mint Quesada: whiskey, tonic water, lemon, lime sugar & ice

Saturday was chill, everyone was DEAD haha, so we met up to eat chili; which was delicious, and then later on continued to Erica's goodbye party at some bar/book store (haha yeah) in Moncloa; or what I THOUGHT was close to Moncloa, so I ended up running the whole way back not to miss the bus. I have never ran that fast in my life I think hahaha, I was completely out of breath - gym soon??

So all of that brings us to last night.. sunday. Shitty sunday. Started out great, had a Happy Meal, then sangria at the royal palace and then later a bar. Got a little too drunk with the free shots we got after saying it was my birthday - and then Chiara's haha - so when we took a cab to Moncloa I forgot my wallet inside. FUCK, I didn't know what to do I had no money to get home and no credit on my phone. I thought I was completely fucked so I just started walking back towards central when I saw these policemen outside talking, so in my drunken haze I start to explain to them what had happened and if they could help me etc. They sent me to the police station and gave me some numbers to call to report my Visa card, but the stupid Visa people asked soooo many freaking questions and it was the middle of the night so I probably gave them some pretty funny answers.. Oh well, after trying to report my missing card for an hour I found out that I still hand't blocked it. Just reported it missing. God! So after 3 or 4 pohne calls I thought I was done but nooo; it was now time to report ONCE AGAIN but to a police officer. Had to describe my wallet and give all sorts of stupid details; I mean I know I'll never get the wallet back I just wanted to block my credit card.. but yeah now I'm without a drivers license and credit card so I'm pretty much screwed. Used up all my physical money last week in Alicante so I was higly depending on that stupid piece of Visa plastic.. tomorrow I'm going to the Danish embassy to try and get a temporary drivers license since I need it everyday now..

Wish me luck

XOXO