Mimidora The Explorer

I fell asleep for 2 hours and i decided to utilize the beautiful shower room of Qatar Airways.

Then after about 30 minutes, they called the passengers of my flight foe boarding. We all had to board a shuttle bus to be brought to our plane






Upon arriving inside the plane and after settling down, our orders were taken for our after take off meal. I was goven sushi for appetizer and i chose the spicy noodles with chicken breast with the amazing sauce :)
Unforunately i was out if my mind, i ate the sushi while waitin for my camera to load :) now all you can see is the bowl, the garnishing and some wasabi






Since i was a little girl (i did not grow much though), i've always loved apple juice in the plane and upto now ask for apple juice during plane rides. I don't normally drink apply juice in normal days.






Here's the noodle thing





And for dessert we have fresh fruits with unsweetened greek yoghurt. I don't like unsweetened though :p






With my headphones on for a portion of a movie before sleeping.





I did not finish it because i had to go i sleep. It's a 9 hour flight!!

And then i woke up just in time for breakfast. Unfortunately i was trying to conserve battery so i was not able to turn on the cam to take pictures of breakfast but it was a filipino breakfast that did not at all taste like one.

I was so happy when i felt the plane finally touch the ground.

When i got out of the plane i felt the humid heat of my country. HUMID! hahaha! But hey quess what? There's a storm :) what a way to welcome me






Baggage conveyor belt






Customs :)





And i was so surprised because from a far, i saw who my surprise fetcher was :)





I was really really very happy! :) he and my dad waited for me at the waiting area, and then my mum and sister were in the car :)
After that we all went to Resorts World Manila to eat at stackers :)

Mi hermanita :) she was so envious of my skin and hair color. My hair color became brown and my skin a bit darker because i was always under the sun in Madrid :)





I ate soooo much :) and to think i just ate breakfast in the plane. This is weird becauae i arrived in Manila at 16:40 and we just had breakfast. Hahahaha





After this my phone went dead and so i could not take pictures in the Chinese restaurant we went to after. Yes we ate again. Hahaha!

I was not even able to take pictures of the unpacking of my clothes but oh well.

Well, that's it, this is the last day of my adventure this year. I really did not expect my blog to reach 6,000 hits. I want to thank the people who visited my blog. You actually inspired me to move around Madrid and to learn more so that i can share my experience with all of you :) it was a good 81 days of Spain, my home away from home. I hope you all enjoyed it as much as i did even if it's only through my blog.

I also want to thank my teachers and friends in Spain who actually encouraged me to post in my blog, sometimes even reminding me to take a picture and sometimes they take the picture for me :)

Thank you all! Til my next adventure, this is Mimi a.k.a, Mimidora, Camille, Camila, Chiquitita, (and all the other names that were given to me), saying ¡HASTA LUEGO!!!!! Besos y abrazos! :)

When i have settled, i might post some of the pictures i took using my big camera as supplementary posts.

-- now it's time to say ¡Buenas Noches Madrid, España, Qatar and Filipinas! :)

Tonight i am going back to Ya'sta for the Fluor party :) because Secci, and María de Almería will be there and it's a good time to ask my questions because my exam is tomorrow :) hahaha! I know it's weird. Party before the exam :p

Here's a picture of Secci, me and another pretty María, María Zaragosa :) so much Marías here i think i have to change my name to María too.

Anyway, my day started boring as usual. I studied my old exercises and yeah basically morning is study time.

When Mamá Eva arrived, she cooked something for lunch :) Paella!!! But this one is special because unlike in the Philippines where we use chicken and seafoods, here some people like Mamá prefer conejo... bugs bunny... playboy RABBIT :) hahahaha!






She's an excellent cook!!





I asked her why did she not start her own business and she said she wanted to but she would prefer cooking for her students and a smaller group :)


















After lunch, i went to school and wow was the lesson diffiult today. Ugh... Or maybe i just need to rest my mind.

But anyway, Yahan brought us Turron. Now i know what Turron is. If you guys read my Huelva post when i viaited Huelva, i ate ice cream Turron flavor :) it's Nougat :)






After class, i went straight home to read a little more, and prepared for tonight. An we had paella again for dinner and i love it!!!







When i got off at Gran Vía, i walked around a little because i was a bit early. Yes 24:30 is early here in Madrid. And then i bumped into María de Rusia or María Ozerova :) and since the place was not open yet we devided to go to another one first

I forgot the name but the ambience was great and then we had a Malibu con Piña which is now officially my favorite. It took the number 1 spot from Mojito. Those are my favorite drinks that are not too strong.


















I will have to say that María is one of the best people i've ever met here in Madrid. She's very funny and she's kind and i love talking to her.





We met a person named Marcelo who had a business near by. He volunteered to take our picture and so we had a little chat because he also wanted to speak english but he has no one to practice with so he spoke english sometimes, and we spoke spanish almost all the way :)

After that we went back to Ya'sta. And por fin! Secci and María de Almería were there!!
And the glowing people!!





Too bad i was not able to take a picture with María de Almería.

I met new friends, Ramon, and María Zaragosa. Yes i was surrounded by Marías :)





And i also met Severin from Switzerland and his friends from France :) sorry i cannot rotate.





And ofcourse my lovely professor and friend Secci and another beautiful María. I love Spanish people. They're so friendly and easy to talk to. And during the party i was such a kill joy because i kept on asking grammatical questions but thy did not mind and i love it when they correct me when i say something with wrong grammar but now i felt more confident to speak because i can actually carry a conversation already :) i don't look as much in my dictionary anymore :) thanks to Secci and his beautiful Tres Marías :)





Notice how everyone needs to crouch a little for a picture with me :) hahahahahahaha i always tell them i am the missing super cool dwarf of Snow White :) and my name is "Hungry" because i love food. Hahahaha!

And then María Ozerova and i decided to call it a day because we have classes :) and look how nice the lighting is in Madrid a night. That's why it's not scary to go home at night ornin the weeeeeee hours of the morning because it's so bright and police still roam around.





And now i have to say i made the most out of this day. It's what we love to say in the Philippines "study hard, party harder"... But i did it equally :) i studied while partying :) hahahahaha! Muy bien! Tres puntos para mi! :) hahaha! No sé porque tres. (i don't know why 3).

-- ¡Buenas Noches Madrid!

I took a side trip to Huelva. A port city of Spain :) I like the city. It's more quiet and calmer than Madrid but ofcourse i love how vibrant and alive Madrid can get.
It's just nice to get away from the noisy and fast paced life once in a while.

I met a friend of mine who i have not seen for the longest time! ¡Hola! It's Rogan Canseco!! And of all places to see each other, in Spain :) now it had become a running joke to us. "oh we just ran into each other... Just in Europe" hahaha

Rogan had been a good friend of mine, and Crystal since college days even if we are not from the same school.






We ate "Secreto de Iberico" a pork dish with pesto sauce and fries





We ate at El Horno de Leña






We walked along the road and saw the pretty city hall which by this time is empty because it was a weekend siesta time but earlier it was full of protesters as seen in the photo below this:






This was a few hours before:






Anyway, we decided to eat ice cream at a nearby heladería (ice cream shop) because it's pretty warm in this place considering the location which is south.






I got "turron" flavor but it's not the same turron we have in the Philippines. It's quite different. But it was reeeeeally delicious!





Rogie got chocolate and that was the best chocolate ice cream ever!!!






We had time to spare for photo moments. Although some are in my other camera which i will post later on.


















Structures here are wonderful and still had a touch of Arabic architecture






And so before we said our "hasta luego"s, we had a picture taken again for memory's sake. Like what Rogan told me, "these pictures are really expensive considering the cost of the plane fare, etc"






There was a flamenco girl too but the picture is in my other camera. Hmph...

Oh well, i shall just write an extenstion entry to this with pictures :)

¡Buenas Noches España!

Location:Huelva

There were donuts, cookies and galletas today but i made sure i got the galletas before anyone else could:

Well, it was cold today and i ran out of tights because i had to dump them in laundry basket and i could not wash my clothes yet because it was always raining. So i had to weat something a bit summery and just put a scarf on... But in this picture, no scarf:






Today is the day before our exam and oh my goodness thanks to Esteban i was able to ask questions regarding the stuff that i did not understand.

Well, some of my classmates found out that i had been taking paparazzi pictures of them and y classmate Emmanuel now calls me "pequeña paparazzi"(small paparazzi)
This is Emmanuel. I asked him this time for a picture because it's his last week.





Caroline is really nice. She's very approachable and funny :)





Amy is a paparazzi too! Like me, she loves to take pictures. She took one of me today and turned it into some kaleidoscope picture but it's still in her iPad :)





Lunch for today was rice with this tomato sauce and tuna but i was only able to take a picture of the Humus, an arabic type of dip :) it was good with pita bread.





After lunch, i really had to study already so here we go!
I studies until evening and hey! Look at my "study hair" hahaha! Yes everytime i study i look like that:





This is my exercise book for A2 :) i am really hoping that next time, i will be using B1...











Rarr.... Haha!
I ate dinner with Jaime and Colleen tonight and we ate this chicken meal that Mama Eva cooked with apples and beer. This is the same thing i ate afew days ago. It's actually good but Jaime did not like it much.

Well it's study time so, i am going to cut this entry short... Even if it's pretty long already.

~*~*~Buenas Noches Madrid!!~*~*~