The Director, David

Saturday January 19, 2008

 After going to bed pretty early last night we finally got up this morning and noticed that we had gotten around 10 hours of sleep. After getting ready for the day and eating breakfast we set out to meet our classmates outside of our school for a scavenger hunt. It was a competition, but my group just decided to take our time and at least just find all of the places. It was fun going around the city and finding the different places that we hadn’t seen before. It worked out well because I was like motivation in the group and the spirit/model for our pictures and the other two were actually good at reading the map. So our group worked out well because we played off each other’s strengths and weakness. We weren’t the first group to get to the end, but we weren’t the last! So I think it was a win for us. After the hunt Nick, the roomies and I went to the market that they had set up outside in the Plaza in front of Corte Ingles. After browsing we stopped at a café, Nick grabbed a sandwich and the gals grabbed drinks and Eau Claire’s. We sat and talked for a while and just kind of people watched and hung out. The culture in the bars and cafes here is very chill and people go every hour of the day to grab and drink and chat. It’s very different from the United States where bars are for drinking. Here is a more social atmosphere and bars are for relaxing and talking with friends. After that, we went home for a bit and took siestas and the met up with four other classmates at Republica. We were sitting and talking when David, the owner and creator of Centro Mundo Lengua, walked by and we hollered at him to talk for a while. He asked us what we were doing that night and we all kind of wanted to keep it low key, but David had other plans. We followed him to another bar across the Alameda and he bought a round of drinks and we just talked to him about the company and the school and his life in Spain. He’s a really nice guy and very cool. It was fun talking to him for a while. After we left there we talked to a club where he knew people at, but they wouldn’t let us in because we didn’t have the right shoes on. Shoes mean everything here. So after that we headed to another place called, “Elefunk.” It was very busy, loud music, and the lights were made of fishbowls with live goldfish in them. I didn’t understand how that didn’t kill the fish, but regardless it was a more modern place. After being unable to breathe or move in there for about 15 minutes we all had had enough of that place. It was about 3am so we all decided to say our good-byes and thanked David for showing us around the city for the night. It’s all about the people you know here. The guys walked home with us, which was comforting, and then we got to our house and talked for a while and reminisced until we all fell asleep. What originally was supposed to be a boring night, quickly turned into an adventure.