Friday night in Madrid and Monday Graduation and Salvador Dali

This weekend was a nice quiet weekend here in Alcala, I decided to stay the weekend here to save my skip day. On Friday night, Saul, Caroline, and I decided to go to dinner at a great restaurant in Madrid where we got a 3 course meal for 10 euros. It was amazing food and we left Alcala about 9:30 and arrived in Madrid about 10:15 and it was about 10:30 by the time we made it to the restaurant. When we finished at about 12:00ish we walked to the Plaza Mayor to see what was going on and to meet with other students. While we were there we encountered an Arabian festival where we sampled some of their desserts. It was quite entertaining, at about 2ish we get tired of walking about and catch a taxi to go to the Avenue de la Americas where we caught out bus home. No one was drinking and we had a fun time without trouble. On Sunday, I went to El Rastro and bought some really cool coins for some good prices, as well as a suprise for my elder brother. I bought Jamara the fans she wanted and Aimee Nagy bought some posters and gifts for her parents, it was very fun! Also on Saturday, I got to go to a free Salvador Dali exhibition, which was amazing, because A it was free, and second, we just finished a class at school about Dali. I felt like I could appreciate Dali's work more after having the class and understanding more about his work and the symbols he puts in his art.
Finally, Monday, we have our graduation but we had to watch a movie in Grammar class, it was insanely disturbing. It was about this girl who has different lives and they keep hypnotizing her to see more of the cause of her pain, but she lives in a artist's school with alot of other people and has this boyfriend named Said. It was filled of course with sex, nudity, and frightening convulsions coming from this girl named Ana, again, I did not much care for the movie dispite my trying to keep an open mind. In conversation class with Jesus, we went to a coffee shop that was cleverly hidden off Calle Mayor. There we just talked about what we were going to do after classes were over and plants that grow in different countries that are expensive to by in Spain, Brazil, or in the USA. At 1:30 we had our graduation where all the MSU students passed, or so I think. Attendance, was laking but they were all taking their grand trips to Granada, Portugal, Rome, or some other place. But me, me quedo en Alcala. I stayed in Alcala because I am going to have my grand trip in two weeks to Granada.

Choa,
CDM