Ladies Nightttt

1/12/2011
I listened to my professor this morning about drinking coffee to keep me awake. However, I got it after her part of the class, but I still listened. The vending machine for the coffee is the coolest thing ever. It prepares the whole thing inside the vending machine, cup and all. And there's a little thing that tells you when it's all ready and you just open up the door thingy and take it. Granted it's really small but it was worth it because it was so cool. During the first part of my class my professor made fun of me for the way I say "Perro" because I can't roll my R's. She kept thinking I was saying "pelo" and what I said didn't make sense to her. Also, at dinner that night Marieta was making fun of my accent and how I sound so American. I kept trying to roll my R's and I think they kept telling me to keep practicing so that they could keep laughing at how ridiculous I sounded and even I couldn't stop laughing. Basically every night Marieta is laughing at me about something, whether it being me eating all my food so fast and not having a crumb left but that's because I am starving all day because Marieta and her daughter barely eat, so she thinks we don't eat a lot too. I don't even know if I actually like the food or if I'm just so excited to just eat something. My Dad wasn't kidding when he used to tell me you'll eat anything if you're hungry. She also makes fun of me for not being able to eat pasta using a fork and spoon and not being able to spin it correctly on the spoon, and my lisp (seta) and how she thinks that's why some words I can't say correctly which I thought was weird because Spanish people speak with lisps. Maybe I just have an American lisp? During Siesta we had eggs, french fries, and bread for lunch. Weirdest combination of food ever but it was good and was the most American kind of food we've had yet. The night before we had hamburgers, with out ketchup, and the hamburgers were actually made from ham. "ham"burger. So funny. I was nervous about eating it because it was sooooooo pink until she told us the meat was ham. J Konops and I went shopping and to go get coffee at a cute little cafe. We sat outside because it was beautiful out. Except there were so many birds or pigeons or whatever kind of bird they were and they are NOT afraid of you. They're just like the squirrels at ISU. Evil little things and I bet a bird poops on my head sometime before I come home in May. I found my new favorite store here, "Paul and Bear". Cheap and cute.

That night we went to Granada Diez for Ladies Night. We were told that they started serving the free drinks at 11. So of course we got there at 5 to eleven andddd we ended up being the first ones there and it wasn't even open yet. Typical. Seriously everyone there was American, because I guess it was also international student welcome night. Literally 85% American, 10 % people from across seas, and 5% Spanish. That was a let down. However, I did meet people from Australia, France, Italy, and Poland. I told the French girls that I met in the bathroom that my last name was French, they didn't really seem to care that much. But in order for us to communicate we had to talk in Spanish because I didn't know French and they don't know English. Even though people from Australia speak English it was still hard understanding what they were saying because of how heavy their accents are. I asked this boy Alex (who told me everyone called him x man) who I met how long he was staying here for and he replied, well what I thought I heard " a wake". I was really confused until he asked me what do I call Saturday to Saturday then I realized it was because of his accent that I wasn't understanding certain words he said. There were male GoGo dancers at this place. Basically all I'm going to say about that is almost naked man GoGo dancer and my roommate. The end!