Mimidora The Explorer

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!!~*~*~

Well today i am not going to write a blow by blow account of my day because nothing special happened today except for thia morning when i went to the station on the way to school. I did not have to wait for the train because as soon as i arrived the train was already there and same with the train from Cuatro Caminos to San Bernardo. It did not end there, I did not have to wait for the walk signs on the stop ligjts on the way to school ecause it was always on "walk".

Well, that's about the only thing special that happened today. So i will just write about aome thoughts that i have been pondering on these past few days.

I have been loving my life here in Madrid... Ofcourse not to the point that i would not want to o home anymore. Ofcourse there is still no place like home.

But my life here in Madrid had been a blast eversince i arrived here. Madrid is like another life for me. It feels so different. I feel so alive. I guess my schooling here can be considered as a breather from my life in Manila which became a boring routine already. It was getting really boring, i actually looked forward to leaving. Ofcourse i miss my family and speially my amorcito :)

But not many people get opportunities like this and so i am making the most out of this.

Eversince i lived with my Spanish family here. I experience how o be independent and tough. And i go out on my own, i take public transportation, i wash clothes, etc.

Now let me tell you the things i have observed and loved about Madrid.

I love how people exert effort to bring their kids on strollers in the metro. I love how people find time to go to El Parque Retiro to hang out, some even lay under the sun and sunbathe or simply to read a book. I want to try that sometime. I also love how the elder folk read the newspaper in the train. I also love how many madrileños give up their seat in the train for the elderly and the women. I've seen a lot of these. I love Madrid and i'm pretty sure there's more to love about them and hey i have 50 more days to see more of this place i call my second home.

So, it's time for me to sleep, and hopefully tomorrow something worth blogging will happen :)

I couldn't make myself get up from bed. "me costé mucho para levantarme" (it was difficult for me to get up)

I ate breakfast with Jaime and Colleen, my 2 american foster sisters. They were going to go to Toledo this morning that's why they had to wake up and eat early. And then they kept sneezing too. The temperature and the weatherbchanged so much these past few days. A lot of people are sick.
Oh by the way there was something different about breakfast today.... NO GALLETAS!! just the butter cake and some donuts. Yes there it is on the upper right :)

IT WAS FREEAAAAAKIN' COLD!! i wore my red knitted coat today and it didn't help much.







...It was 9 degrees earlier and it was not the cold temperature that was bad. It was the wind. The wind made the cold feeling the worst. And i now officially have the colds. MR. SNIFFLES GO AWAY!!!! DEJAME! (leave me alone!!)







I walked faster than usual today because the cold was stinging my skin.

I hurried to the metro because it's warmer down there. In the metro i was already thinking about the cold once i surface at the San Bernardo stop of the metro.

Once i did surface ¡Madre Miaaaaaa! ¡Hace muuuuuuuuucho Friioooooooo!!!!! The wind seemed to literally slap me :) haha! I love the cold, i like it better cold but right now that i don't feel so well, i am not loving it that much.

I arrived in school and thankfully it's warm in the classroom.

Well, we discussed more of the future tense with Marisa today and so with Esteban. I honestly think that we are a bit too much in class. It was difficult to move and write because we're too close to each other.

Emmanuel, my french classmate was my partner for today and we had an activity about making some sort of ad about our city... I wrote about manila instead of quezon city because there are more things to write about Manila than QC in terms of tourism.

Then we talked about future plans and he apparently worked with an animator and he showed me one of his doodles.... This is just a draft, "pasatiempo" (hobby)... What more of he was asked to do some professional thing.









After class i went straight home. I was supposed to buy shampoo today because i am running out of shampoo but i don't think i can right now, i feel really sick today. My cold became worse and my head hurts a bit.

For lunch, we had empanada with tuna and on my rice there was spaghetti sauce with tuna as well. I actually like it :)









But what i loved most about lunch today was the lemon yoghurt. I don't normally like lemon but this is by far THE BEST YOGHURT I HAVE EVER EATEN!!!!!! it's like the natural yoghurt only a bit sweeter. This ia the kind of yoghurt i like.








Mmmmm....









My cold was killing me and so it was good that my family called me earlier to remind me that i have Theraflu in my med kit... Theraflu is the tea we take when we have fever, colds, cough, etc.

The theraflu made me sleepy and so I fell asleep later and i woke up at 21:00... I couldn't get up until Mama Eva said "dinner"... The magic word :)

We had white sauce pasta with zucchini and sausage. I ate with Jaime and Colleen this evening and we talked a little about their Toledo trip. I am glad they enjoyed because i know i did when we were there.

I took a bath earlier today and then i did my homework while waiting for my hair to dry.

My skin has finally adjusted to the climate here. I stopped breaking out. Haha! Thank you for that.

Well right now it's 22:59 and i am quite tired, sleepy and my head is very heavy so i will retire early tonight.


~*~*~¡Buenas Noches Madrid!~*~*~