Here I am sitting in my computer room in.. Atco, NJ and even though I'm obviously really sad that it is all over, I am surprised by how happy I am to finally be home! Anyways, my last week and a half in Madrid was probably the craziest time in my life - no other word to describe it than EPIC, so here it goes starting with last Wednesday:
Wednesday - Last Cien Montaditos :( then El Turkito (Hookah bar) with everyone.
Thursday - Pregame at Owe's apartment then last night at JOY... we walked home as the sun was coming up at 7 a.m.
Friday - El Turkito, then Botellion in Parque Oweste next to Temple of Debod (got caught in the POURING rain! haha)
Saturday - Studied in a cafe with Kira and Mia, Owe's apartment for dinner (the boys cooked us a really good Indian dinner!), then pregamed, El Turkito (we really started to like this bar) - Hookah and 5 liter beer dispensers lol, attempted Samsara but Eli almost fought some Spanish girls, and finally went to a bar/club called Fontana de Oro until it closed at 6:30 a.m.
Sunday - Last El Rastro, finished up buying my souveniors, and then went to the last Real Madrid game of the season with all the people from my apartment. Real Madrid lost to Mallorca 3-1, but it was still a really fun game!
Monday and Tuesday - I actually attempted to study for my finals, even though I ended up going to a bar Monday with all the people I live with, going on a serious shopping spree and out to dinner with Paige on Tuesday... so studying didn't go so well!
Wednesday - Took my last finals and drank some beers afterwards in the cafeteria with everyone in celebration of finishing school. My program, ISA, had a goodbye dinner, then we went to Finnegan's to watch the final match (similar to the Super Bowl) for soccer in Europe between Barcelona and Manchester United (Barcelona won 2-0 and all the bars in Spain were going crazy). Next we headed to Pacha but we stopped in some random bar for more drinks. Then we finally went into the club and stayed til closing at 6 a.m.
Thursday - Went to school to get our final grades (2 A's and 2 B's - sweet) and a goodbye pinic with our professors at Nebrija. Afterwards I went to Retiro Park for the last time to take a nap and tan in the 80 degree Madrid sunshine. Then I had my final meeting with ISA, and came back to get ready for the night. We decided to do something less crazy since we were going to have to say our goodbyes :( so we went to El Tigre for drinks and tapas with all the girls, and the boys from my apartment. We then headed to a sangria bar, for my last reaaal Spanish sangria! I went home, slept for 2 hours, and woke up to take a shuttle to the airport at 5:30 a.m. I arrived at the airport to find out I had to pay $100 to get my suitcases home because they were so much overweight haha and then I met with Paige and Christie to say bye to them :( We hung out for a while together until I headed towards my gate to finally leave Madrid after 4 months... so sad. The flight went smoothly, and everything was on schedule (unlike my flight on the way to Europe).
Friday - I arrived home at around 4 p.m. and was greeted at the airport by my mom and sister with flowers and balloons! :) It was sooo good to see them! Afterwards, my family and Chris went out to dinner, which was really nice!
Even though I am sad that my time in Spain is over, I am really happy to be home and it is so good to see everyone! I feel like I am the luckiest girl in the world for having this opportunity, and I would absolutely do it all over again if I had the chance. The time I spent living in Madrid and traveling all over Europe feels like one big blur - honestly like the blink of an eye. My experience was like a dream, and I met so many awesome people along the way... I love my Madrid family <3 :)
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