I am super busy with school! So forgive me if this post is very slow and late. I shall slowly update what all happened on my trip to Madrid, but for now I have a major paper to write so it will take me a while to get this post done. Thanks!
Last week was a very productive one for me, after my class on Tuesday I went to the American Art Office to pick up my final essay questions. Looking over them I am quite confident that I will be able to create an A worthy essay! Hopefully, that is if I remember everything that I would need to write. It is a huge part of my grade, it counts for 90%, 2 essay questions, 45% & 45%. Pressure! Thankfully I actually like this class and remember quite a lot of what is said, and therefore should be able to come up with something that is Spectacular! After I red over the questions I had to go to the library to find some more books for my Archaeology class as well as my Raphael class. I have 2 essays due soon, well one actually tomorrow (7th) and the other next Tuesday (13?) that I need to keep my butt moving on. I did however find a few books that I could use for my archaeology essay on Women in Roman Britain. Lets just say that there is not much information on that subject, but even less on the topic of Treatment of Portraiture in the High Renaissance. Good thing that I can twist things and pull things out of my ass to make it work. Whew! That part is over, no more book research. Now it is all online, which could be worse, much more information to sift through to find the pot of gold. But you don't want to hear much more on that subject so I shall move on. :)
Since it was Tuesday we were doing lunch at Steffi's house this time. She was going to make bread rolls with carrots and sunflower seeds etc. inside them. Quite good. :) I don't believe that I have ever had bread that had those ingredients inside it, but I would eat it again! Lunch was a nice time to talk and catch up on each others lives. I only get to see them maybe twice a week if I am lucky, otherwise our Tuesday lunch meetings are the only time we get to talk. I love traveling and seeing new places with friends, but I do miss just staying home and hanging out with all my friends here, it has been a while since I have seen some of them, and I miss them :( After our lunch and girl talk I headed back home to work on my first essay. Since this was an interesting subject I flew threw the 2000 words in 3 days! Go me! Well I guess 3 days was really like a week, but I hate writing conclusions so I put that off until today. Whatever.
Wednesday was filled with homework, well finishing my paper that is. I had a meeting with my Archaeology group to go over our presentation that was due the next day. We kind of got the short end of the stick with that one. Unfortunately there were not enough topics so he had to make one up and it basically the only ruins that were there was one building and everything was in ruins. Some of the only interesting things that remained inside the villa was mosaic tiles. But, later that night we had our traditional family dinner, Florian was cooking and we had something called Toast Hawaii. It was toast with a slice of ham, pineapple, cheese then put in the oven until the cheese melted. Quite nice, minus the pineapple part. Don't really like pineapple with meat, or it being warm. So I guess it was a delicious hot ham and cheese sandwich!
Thursday's presentation went just fine, but I guess even if it didn't, it didn't matter because it wasn't graded. Thank the good lord for that! After our presentation I headed back home to do what? Well you guessed it, HOMEWORK! Blah blah blah blah blah.
Friday was a glorious day, class was wonderful, I got to finally get an idea of when I would take my final. I am most likely going to take it next Wednesday! I should probably get studying for that, but I don't really feel like it right now, so I will do that this weekend. Hopefully. :( When class was over I went back home to make sure that I had everything packed for my trip to Madrid. We were meeting at 1:00 at the bus station to go to the train station. However we got there a little too early so we went to the mall and had ourselves a lovely cup of starbucks deliciousness. Mummm :p Cups drained of the yummy goodness we went back to the station to catch our train to Manchester Piccadilly, where we would then catch another train to the airport where we would then get on our plane! At the airport we had to wait in line for quite a while, the plane was about an hour late :( But that is A-OK, because it was cheap and we still got there at a decent time. Arriving in Madrid I had no idea on what to expect. Thankfully I knew how to read the metro maps, and we figured out where we had to go. Stepping out of the Metro, this was one of the first things we saw.
SUGAR OVERLOAD!
Walking around all day really wears a girl out! So after all of our touring was done, we went back to the hostel to drop our purchases off and figure out where we wanted to go for supper. We ended up going to this pizza place that was closed the night before. Quick and Delicious. I think once we were done we went and did some trinket shopping, then went to the hostel and just hung out. We were going to get up decently early the next morning to go to a museum and then head back home.
The museum that we went to was quite nice, we went to see an exhibition on Baroque art, as well as any other exhibits that they had there. Well that is all the time I have to write, so until next time, Adios!
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