Geeking out in Madrid on Sunday.

First off, for this weekend I did not plan any trips just to stay here in Alcalá the last weekend and try to enjoy it for what it is worth. On friday night I just stayed in Alcalá and we ended up just hanging out behind the shool talking and watching life go by in the plaza behind the school. We played soccer with some local kids behind the school as well as watch a guy get rejected from a good night kiss, a dispute erupt in a restaurant near the school, and some drunk teenagers (shame on them). It was pretty hilarious see the police come back with this insanely angry Spanish man, and a guy shouting from his balcony at them to shut up. On Saturday, I went to the pool with one of my classmates and we meet some other students at the pool and had a good time talking, of course only in Spanish, and later we went to his house and drank some wine and made Italian food. Sunday, I spent 6 hours geeking out at the Prado with an audioguide, it was bliss because I was by myself and didn´t have to have anyone rush me. I certainly took my time because I know that I´m not going to come back anytime soon. I used my Alcalingua student ID to get a 4 euro discount yes! and I got an audioguide for 3.50 euros. I enjoyed listening to the commentary because you don´t notice some of the stuff one your own without someone telling you. For me, I like to geek out with historical audioguide, I certainly did enjoy learning about what a creep Goya was, but Velasqúez seems like a normal type of guy. If I had to pick a favorite part of the Prado I would choose the 0 floor where all the Midevil paintings are, they have the most interesting stories behind them to me, well the audioguide had the most interesting stories in the basement. I learned a lot about Fransico Goya and his early to late works, I prefer his earliest works the most because they are very jovial and consist of stories and they were created when he was working for the royal tapestry factory. His paintings were to be made into tapestries for nobles´ houses. His dark period pinturas negras are insane, some you may know might be ¨Colosus¨ or ¨Saturn devouring his children¨, this guy was insanely disturbed, but that is most likely because he was sick two times in his life and not to mention he was sordo or deaf. I found some goodies for my older brother Jameson, its going to be a surprise for his birthday I think. That is it for my weekend. I had two tests today which I hope I made good marks on because I studied 4 days in a long way without distrations for my grammar test.

Coming home in 3 days, but I´m going to miss this place!