Spain Part 22 – La lluvia y el teatro

 

Tuesday I got up and started my tarea, but I had to keep changing rooms because Lucia and Antonia were cleaning, like they do every Tuesday.  They do a very thorough job, including dusting and disinfecting everything, lifting up the carpets to sweep and vacuum, laundering the curtains, and everything.  It’s nice coming home on Tuesday night because the room smells clean and all my laundry is done.  I know it’s a cultural thing, but I still feel like I should be helping her more than I do.

 

I headed to the Locutorio (the internet café) and called my Mom on skype.  The camera on my end wasn’t working unfortunately but I could see Mom and Kendra.  Kendra got contacts, and was very happy about it.  I told them a little about Madrid and then they left to go to school.  I called my Dad and told him about Madrid too, and got to see Kipster a little bit.  I miss my pets, I hope that I can get skype set up with Laura soon so that I can see Tiki. 

 

I walked in the direction of school after that, but stopped in the jardín near the Museo de Bellas Artes to almorzar (eat lunch).  It was cooler because of the wind, about 50 degrees or so, and sadly around about 14,30 it began to rain, and by rain I mean for the next half hour I felt a slight mist on my face from time to time and the sky was a little cloudy.  No worries though, the sol came back out about 15,00.  That’s pretty typical of the weather here, on those few days when it does rain.  People make a huge deal about it too, umbrellas and the whole nine yards, but there’s rarely more than ten minutes of rain.  I wonder how some of them react when they visit places like London.

 

I ended up at school around 15,30 and went on the computadoras to update my blog, though there wasn’t enough time to go through the whole weekend before I had to go the reunion de teatro.  I had thought that the teatro taller was going to be more like a formal theatre group but apparently it’s more like a talent show.  They said that they are looking into renting instruments, so I might get to play a violin this semester after all!  Otherwise, there are lots of other things I can do, and hopefully I can find people who want to be in a group and perform something fun like a musical piece.  We’re allowed to sing in English, but I think it might be fun to translate it into Spanish.

 

Back at home Alicia and I had an amazing cena of sopa de verduras (vegetable soup) and pescado made kind of like chicken cordon bleu.  Alicia went to her first práctica today, she’s working with community service in a retirement home, but unfortunately they didn’t do anything, just met to discuss availability.  The place is apparently pretty close to our home so that’s nice for her.  I have my own first práctica this Thursday at 9,40, which is very exciting.  All I know so far is that we will be correcting the translations that have already been done from Spanish to English.  I think it will be really interesting, and will definitely help me to learn some colloquial phrases and such.

 

Anyway, I have some tarea to finish for mañana so I should probably do that before it gets too late.