Ah, haven't written in so long! So the past two weeks have essentially consisted of going to class and going out and exploring the city. Classes are going well- very different than what I'm used to. My homework for my Basque language and culture class tomorrow is to read literally ONE page in our textbook, so yeah, very interesting haha. Other than that, I'm having a bit of trouble still adjusting to my class times, and I'm having a LOT of trouble not taking naps in between all of my classes hahah but with those three hour breaks and a warm bed to come back to, it's hard not to!
Last Sunday, me Victoria and Belen took the metro into Casco Viejo (the "Old Quarter" of Bilbao) and got some drinks and pintxos! We went to a few different bars and sampled a few different ones but my favorite was definitely a little piece of bread (obviously) with these delicious creamy cheese and pineapple pieces on top. soooo goooooood. And we saw a bar there that has one euro pintxos on Tuesdays.
So on Tuesday we tried to go back but ended up leaving the dorm after the metro stopped running so we took a cab and the bar with the pintxos deal was closed yadda yadda so we just went to a different bar in casco viejo and just hung out. And then left there and made a stop at our favorite local bar here, Drakkar, where they have one euro chupitos (shots) and 3 for 7euro kalimotxos (sorry this whole post is about drinking haha)
ANYWAYS, me belen and victoria have also begun spring break planning but i wasn't really able to partake much because of the fraudulent charges on my credit card (wooo hooooo) but they have a set schedule so i'll need to buy my tickets once I get the new card sent to me. As of now I believe the plan is to go to Paris, Rome, Ibiza and then to Mallorca, but I think I'll miss the Paris portion of the trip because Mama and Dad are going to come visit for my first week of spring break! No worries though, the main destination I want to go to anyway is ROME so I'll still have a great spring break of traveling no matter what. We also want to start doing weekend trips, to Barcelona, Vitoria, and possibly Amsterdam. We'll see!
What else....... oh! Last week "una ola fria" hit Bilbao and we saw SNOW here. Yeah it was kind of miserable, I mean it pretty much rains all the time here anyways so it was basically just COLD and WET(it wasn't actually sticking to the ground cause it hadn't been cold enough before that). I looked up the weather forecast for the coming week and I'm pretty sure it's supposed to rain/snow/precipitate in some way/be freezing all week. YAYYYY.
But! Something to look forward to- we have our day trip on Friday to the South of France!!! We haven't gotten any more information about it yet but I'm sure there will be some to come this week. In my Basque class we've learned that there are 7 Basque provinces, 4 from SPain, and 3 from France. So I imagine we're going to be exploring the Basque part of France (people here are kind of obsessed with being BASQUE and not Spanish and pretty much everyone you meet has some sort of weird basque name)
Also speaking of names, I mentioned before how there are, on average, 3 Emilys in each of my classes- and ironically enough it seems that practically everyone I meet here doesn't understand my name. Our conversations usually go something like-
Spanish person- "Como te llamas?"
Me- Emily
Spanish person- "no nooo.....waaahhttt eeezz yoooor naayymeee"
Me- ........Em-ill-eee.
Pretty funny.
Didn't catch any of the superbowl today, there was a party out at a bar but I decided, since the game wouldnt start till midnight here, to be responsible and go to bed early. As we can all see by the time stamp on this entry, that has failed miserably and it is now 6:30 am and I'm still up (i know you're cringing at this mom and dad!)
This week- classes, maybe attempt number 2 at the one euro pintxos, France on friday-- i think it'll be a good one! I'll post some pics soon from friends' albums and i PROMISE to take my own pictures in France on Friday.
Love you all
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