Pre-Navidad vacationing.

Week 1: SEGOVIA. On the long weekend, I went North to Segovia with an exchange friend, and it was so great to see castles (el alcázar pictured here) and aqueducts and beautiful Spanish streets. We went for a full 12 hour day and saw everything, everything.

Five days later, I took a trip to TOLEDO with my friend Toni, from Berlin and we.... didn't see everything. We stayed in McDondals, playing cards and eating bread with cheese on account of the freezing cold outside and not having any money left. It was great, but a little non-toledo-ish. The next day we went to the Madrileño flea market and later tried to go into the soccer stadium, but didn't enter since we refused to pay 30 euros to look at grass in a building. So we saw the Madrid decorations and enjoyed a nice wintery day.

This week is the last full week of school before the holidays, so that means grades come out, and everyone stresses. But in one week, it will be christmas, and everyone will be jolly again, sitting around the family table, singing songs (I made that part up) and eating polverones and chuches.

p.s. first snow today.