Una semana - one week

Hellooooo all!

Sunday we woke up early (altho we were very tired) to go to this thing called Rastro. It is a huge market with tons of stuff for you to buy! obvi i was allllll in haha we got there around 11 am and it was PACKED! we thought we'd have trouble finding it and had directions ready, but ha no! it is allll thru the streeets and there are tons of people. it was chaotic but awesome at the same time! i had my hand on my purse the entire time tho.  we walked around trying to shop but were so overwhelmed haha i did lots of shopping for you all, so youre welcome! haha i spent around 100 euros in total which is kinda of a lot, but i also got a lot of good deals and some really cool stuff! i wanna go back but not sure if ill be here another sunday to go (since it is only open sunday mornings).
After that we came home to change and get ready for the Real Madrid soccer game.  We met up with our friends and all went to joshs apartment (graduate student here to help) to hang out before the game. He lives pretty close to the stadium.  The stadium was reallly cool! afterwards we were all starving and went to TGIFs hahaha we somehow happened upon it and were like why not lol the thing i normally get at home for like 7 was 11 euros! its a freaking appetizer too! it was very very delicious tho!! :) it was a fun day overall :))

Today we just had class and it was raining some so we came home for a much needed nap! it felt great haha we may go shopping here in a little again for more souvenirs. we also have been working on our trip this weekend and it is officially booked! we are taking a bus which takes about 6 hours to get to san sebastian, spain. its a beautiful city with a beach! we leave at 12:30 thursday night and arrive around 7 in the morning Friday. hopefully the bus is comfortable enough to sleep on haha so we will have all day Friday, Saturday, and part of the day Sunday. we leave there around 5 and get here around 11 at night. we are super excited!! :) its me and tricia and then hope, ariel, kara, and taylor (some friends from the group) we also booked a hostel for the two nights well be there. the bus is around 30 euro there and back and then hostel is around 30 a night. the total will be around 140 which is awesome!! some places are much more expensive unfortunately. just a random fact about Spain.....THANK GOD for hand motions. i feel i am more studying sign language than spanish hahaha they are all about the hand motions to help you understand things which is great because otherwise I'd be so lost haha we have started using them now too to get our point acrossed. its quite funny lol

Anyway im off. love you all xoxo