"Dieta mediterránea"

This past weekend proved to be a fairly interesting one.

On Friday, our entire ISA group met together to tour a "museum" close to both the Plaza Moyúa and the Guggenheim. It's not exactly a museum because nothing in there is bought, it's just two large rooms that feature incredibly contemporary (we're talking made this year) art. It was... interesting... Not exactly my thing, but this one room that we saw was full of garage-like items like blinds and lights and wires all over the ceiling. This was a particularly cool room because the artist (a Korean that lives in Berlin) also incorporated smells along with sounds (from a microphone setup in the corner) and images (moving lights creating really cool shadows on the walls) and even feeling (changes of temperature in different parts of the room). It was interesting but I couldn't quite figure out what the artist was going for.

On Saturday, I holed myself up in a bar for about 4 hours to talk to my parents and to Bryan. There's free WiFi there so I just bought a glass of wine and a bocadillo (a small baguette sandwich) and I was good to go! Later that night we all got together and went out to the bars and to a couple of discotheques. It turned out to be a VERY late night (rather, morning) and we didn't get back home until about 5:30 am (after the discotheque that we were at close). It was certainly a long day, but totally worth it because it's so much fun to dance here!

On Sunday we slept in until about 2 pm and Cristina was nice enough to have lunch ready for us! We had a delicious pasta doused in olive oil and meatballs. It was perfect. Then Sarah and I went to our friend Tim's house which happens to be right on the beach! It's a fairly inconvenient trip out there (at least 25 minutes on the Metro) but the view was amazing even though it was a very overcast day. We just relaxed for the afternoon eating cheese and french fries. Mmm mmm... :)

Afterwards Sarah and I went to see a movie called "Dieta mediterránea" with two of our girlfriends. It's an actual Spanish movie (most of the movies shown here are American and dubbed) so that's why we picked it. It turned out to be quite an interesting movie to say the least. If you've ever seen "Bandits" think love triangle, just substitute the robbing out and replace it with the woman's desire to be the best chef in the world. It was definitely funny, but fairly graphic. Sarah and I agree that it would be incredibly difficult to find two leading actors in America who would be willing to make out with each other, and it would probably be front page news, but here it was no big deal. I did enjoy the movie though, and I was especially happy to find that I could understand almost all of it and and I knew what was going on the entire time!

Now I'm just back to the old grind of school. But I really enjoy my classes here because they're all in Spanish and all applied so I'm actually learning a lot.

¡Hasta luego!