Tuesday, July 21, 2009

MY "you know you're in Spain or Alcala when..."

1.You see a Mercedez-Benz garbage truck collecting trash
2.You think the streets smell at first and then grow accustomed to it.
3. Topless women at beaches use to bother you but now it is not such a big deal to you.
4. You come home at a normal hour for example 12:00-1:00 in the morning
5. You see kids in bars with their parents until this hour
6. Kids are walking around at 12 or later either playing in the streets or a paseo with their mothers.
7. You take siestas in the afternoons
8. You to go Madrid at least 2 or 3 times a week
9. You take a bus, train, or walk everywhere.
10. You have no AC (air conditioner) in your bedroom and you therefore want to sleep naked or in your underwear
11. You see your underwear hanging from the balcony of you apartment
12. Grow accustomed to NO free refills
13. Bums pass out photcopies in color on the train saying "i'm poor....."
14. Guys or Girls pass you and call or shout at you "guapa" meaning pretty
15. You see women breast feeding publicly on trains (still have not got use to that one yet)
16. You think you speak English to your American friends and it comes out in Spanish
17. When your house mom tries to feed you squid in its own ink (other students)
18. Your clothes have not been washed in 3 weeks (other students)
19. You get excited about free refills from hard crock cafe in Madrid
20. You get SUPER excited about seeing Harry Potter and Transformers 2 in English
21. You go to McDonalds and cheat the one euro system by ordering a euro ice cream cone without the KitKat making it 80 cents
22. You plan trips at the last minute
23. you Eat tapas as meals because your house mom wants to fatten you up at lunch
24. You grow accustomed to eating at 3 and sleeping until 7.
25. You think you are going to die 10 years earlier from all the second hand smoke
26. You never grow accustomed to how some people stil smell Yuck!
27. You ride the Madrid Metro just for a cheap 1 euro thrill as one person said "it's like a roller coaster that stops"

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