Halfway through...

Midterms are over!!! We all breathed a huge sigh of relief on Thursday afternoon after our last test (art history). The past week was hell, a lot of writing and studying all crammed into a few days. But it's over now and there's been a bit of time to relax. :-)

But the scary thing about that is that, ok, midterms are over, but that means the program is half gone as well! This semester has really flown by, it's crazy how fast it's going. This weekend I'm here in Madrid just relaxing, and it has been wonderful so far. Yesterday, I did absolutely nothing except for catch up on some American tv shows and read (which I haven't done since probably the first week I was here) so that was a nice little break. Today I'm waiting for lunch at home and then going to venture out to the park (because it's finally sunny! - although still kind of cold) and continue my search for cute flat shoes. Very productive I know.

Thursday, after midterms, those of us from my theater class that were still in town (a bunch of people left for their weekend trips early) went to see La Casa de Bernarda Alba at the theater. I had read and seen the play in high school (yay C.T.E) but the class had just finished reading it so it was a great way to make sure we all fully understood the script. Plus, the play was obviously in Spanish which was of course different from the version I saw. The play was great, I really enjoyed it. By far the best one we've seen here in Madrid so far. There were tons of American students in the audience, probably because almost everyone reads the play in a Spanish drama/literature/culture class so that was kind of a neat experience.

After the show, I went out to dinner with some of the girls in the program. Mexican food at the only good Mexican restaurant I've found in Spain so far. Yum! I do miss my L.A. Mexican food though. Then, we treated ourself to some churros con chocolate and tried to make it home before the metro closed.

As I said before, this semester is really flying by! I'm here this weekend, then next weekend I actually head to Barcelona again (I just can't stay away), then the weekend after that we have a group trip to the north of Spain. Then my family comes!! Yay! And it's spring break where I show them around for a few days and then we head to Portugal. Then it's April, basically the last month of our program and I'm here in Madrid for a few of the weekends and traveling to Amsterdam for one of them. :-) Craziness...

Alright well it's just about lunch time (I hope...) so I'm going to head off. More updates to come if something exciting happens!

Ciao!