Mimidora The Explorer

I'm so excited because tonight is Juanes' concert. My admiration for him strted when i was in my 1st year in college. We had a Spanish teacher who played a Juanes song "La Camisa Negra" to which i instantly fell in love with and i followed his carreer from then on and i am just so lucky that we happen to be in Spain on the same season... And just a few days before my flight home!!!!

Anyway, this morning i went to The Quatar Airways office because it's really difficult to call them. The line is always on hold and i can't keep spending for telephone calls and it's better if i go there personally.

I went and she told me i did not have to reconfirm my flight. But still, it's better that i did to make sure everything is okay.
For lunch today we had morcilla with pimiento and lentejas soup :) oh and pita bread!!!


After lunch i went straight to school. We had to switch classrooms again because a group of american kids will use the classroom were using now.

After my class i met up with Maria Ozerova, my Russian best friend here in Spain :) we walked a little until we reached a little terraza with mist machines :) we stayed there and ate pizza and tinto de verano :)









And then she brought me to the nearest station so i can already go to the concert and it was ¡hasta luego! to my dear Maria



Finally reached Goya station and i looked for the Palacio de los Deportes because that's the concert venue. And there it is! The green one!












It's nice to see many other Juanes fans :) my seat was a bit difficult with my height and all so i moved near the aisle but it's not allowed but because i'm tint and i squeezed myself really near a seat, it looked like i had a seat there and the gurds never shooed me away :) hahahaha! Advantage of tiny people :)



I know the quality sucks. Haha but i had my slr with me that time and pictures there were great. I'll post them when i get back to Manila because my laptop right now has problems.

Oh the concert has ended :c i wish it didn't. I really enjoyed it.


I met a few Colombians because one of them asked me to take their picture and after that i offered to take a picture of them using my camera and then i jut gave my email address and that's it :) i me Carlos and Any and Any's brother but i only have a picture of me with Any and the Colombiam flag :)



And then we just added each other in facebook :) they were really nice :) i hope to continue talking to them even when i am back in The Philippines.

When i arrived home i prepared to go to bed and so

-- ¡Buenas Noches Madrid!

Today is the start of my afternoon class week. Yes i now have classes in the afternoons. I don't like it much because when i had morning classes, i had the whole afternoon to do whatever i want. Now, i have to do stuff in the morning, then go to class, and then do whatever again... Plus it's siesta time...

This morning, Alana and i went to El Circulo de Bellas Artes. But there were no exhibits todat because they're closed on mondays but the terrace was open.

We went up the 7th floor and it was so hot but the view was phenomenal!

When i asked a store where the Circulo De Bellas Artes was, the guy said "mira, hay un edificio en frente y hay un soldado arriba mirando a la calle. Ya'sta!" (look, there's a building in front and there's a soldier above looking at the street, that's it!)





I thought it was a real soldier. Apparently not :) it's this guy behind me

Then i had my picture with the real guard :)





After that, Alana and i went to the oldest hotels in Spain i think. It's called the Palace Hotel. It's a 5 star hotel with a beautiful lobby






























And then we decided to go back to San Bernardo to go to school. I honestly dislike the new schedule... But oh well. If the teacher is good, might as well stay in the afternoon class. Depending on the teacher, and my classmates.

But before we went to school, we ate lunch out first. We ate at a restaurant with a wonderful offer of an 2 dishes + a drink = 7€ only :) and it was a great bar/restaurant with very friendly people. Alana and i ate with Rina, a Russian studying B2 in
Don Quijote :) she was very nice
I ordered Arroz a la Cubana






... Then chicken curry






An ice cream!! :)






In class i had Carolina as my teacher for the firt half :)






... And Rocío for the 2nd half






Then my classmates:
Yahan and Chen Chen (Chao Liu is my classmate again but this time she's just in the bathroom :))





Helena (she was my classmate before, the Russian :)) Shaina (from Belgium) and Yulin





It's the first time a teacher was able to guess where i am from in less than 3 tries. Carolina eas able to guess in 2 :) but i was surprised she thought i was from Brazil at first.

After class i am so happy because Alana and i went to El Corte Ingles and i finally bought the tickets to the Juanes concert this 20th of July :)






I'm really really happy :) because i don't think he will be coming to the Philippines anytime soon and so it will be amazing to watch him here. I love it!

After that, Alana and i went to Retiro to take pictures of anything and everything. I think the majority of the pictures i took here are of kissing people :) but i used my dslr so i can't post right now because my laptop is busted. Great. >_<

Anyway, we decided to go home after because we lost track
Of time, and in the house we took dinner, the same burger steak thing that was really good, and then it's time to do the evening rituals, and

-- ¡Buenas Noches Madrid!