Last night I arranged a group night out. There were both Spanish- and English-speaking people there, several Spaniards, three or four Americans, a Canadian, an Australian and a Scotsman. Quite the international crowd, no? We went to a bar and took over basically a whole room. They had an electronic dart board, so part of the evening was spent challenging each other to games and shit-talking. I won every dart game I played (pure luck, I assure you). Good times.
Today I slept in a bit, lazed around, watched Practical Magic for the 50 millionth time, and then met Shannon to research karaoke bars for our next monthly TtMadrid social event. Did find one near the Parque Retiro, so we just need to choose a date and send out an email. Hurrah. Then I went over to my friend Ishmael's house and we watched The Fifth Element and talked sci-fi. He might help me with my sci-fi vampire romance spy novel.
Am making some progress with the novel idea, by the way. It is now a trilogy. I have the main character's spy name (and possibly her real name) as well as a brief synopsis of the three novels. I also have a pen name and a draft of the "about the author." Plan to have a draft of the first novel finished by June.
Tomorrow Shannon and I will go to Ávila for the day. It's only an hour and a half by train. Another walled city that's supposed to be very beautiful...and cold, I hear. Will need to remember to bring hat and buy some gloves (left one of my gloves in Paris). Then on Saturday I'm going back to Segovia with my friend Alan. He plans to eat cochinillo and I plan to spend at least two hours wandering around inside the castle. Sunday morning Shannon, Kez, Meaghan (Canadian friend and fellow teacher) and I will hit El Rastro for Christmas shopping, and then I'll need to spend the afternoon lesson planning.
Have been feeling surprisingly content the last few days. Partly because I'm building my social life and partly because I'm super excited to be going home in two weeks. Also have been spending quite a bit of time watching Flight of the Conchords video clips on YouTube. If you haven't seen any, I highly recommend them. Very funny stuff. Among my favorites: "Rhymenocerous vs. Hiphopopotamus" and "Bret, You've Got It Goin' On." (See video links on the right of this page.)
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