Day 2

Queens College Study Abroad Students 2012

Today I slept in to recuperate from our long flight and our late night out. When we awoke, most of the other students had arrived. It was nice to have more English speaking people around, but at the same time I missed having the natives here. Two guys will be staying for a couple more weeks, so hopefully we can converse with them for practice and they can show us all the fun places to go.

We met our professor, and he reminds me of my AP Calculus teacher from high school so much! It’s something about their appearance and overall demeanor. He took us to go get phones, but the store didn’t have what we needed in stock, so we shall be without telecommunication (not even sure if that is the correct word for this situation, but whatever).

Las Capiones Europa

We were supposed to meet the guys (aka the “natives”) to go to the parade in celebration of Spain winning the cup, but we were running too late and had no way to contact them so we ended up venturing on our own to the parade. I got a pretty good video of Spain’s futbol team passing by on a bus considering the size of the crowd was similar to that of the stadium yesterday.

After the parade we came back to the residence, where we found the guys sitting in the living room watching tv. We joined and they mocked how we traveled such a long distance only to sit and watch MTV.

"The guys"

We ended up going with them to this hookah (or shisha) bar where for 7 euros each we got 2 shishas, 2 bottles of liquor, and a bunch of soda for drink mixing purposes. It was insane.

Apparently the Metro doesn’t work at night, so you have to either take a cab (expensive!) or walk home. I guess that keeps their transit system from being destroyed by homeless and drunkards? Anyway, on our way we passed by a hooker street. Correction, transvestite hooker street. What an interesting site.

We got back to the residence around 430 in the morning, but we didn’t sleep because Sergio had to leave at 6 for his flight back to the Canary Islands. Needless to say tomorrow (which is actually today) is going to be interesting.