OBAMA!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm now officially proud to say I'm from America! Although it was really hard to miss the inaugural festivities in DC, we still did plenty of celebrating over here in Espana! It was actually really interesting to to see how important this inauguration was to the rest of the world. I've really gained a better sense of the amount of influence the U.S. truly has while here..not just politically, but also economically, socially, musically, etc. All of our teachers were talking about it, and they even let us out early to watch at a local bar! We decided to call our festivities Obama-Rama...cause why not?! We went to an "Irish pub" in Spain...yea weird I know, but it was one of the only places playing it in English (at least that's what they told us...lies) It was really exciting seeing the mall sooooo packed! The whole experience was great...exceeeept we had to watch the whole thing in Spanish...Obama's Speech and all! At least Aretha sang in English! Our Spanish friends Juan and Pablo also watched with us and celebrated the end of the "W" era. Afterward we went to the grocery store and bought the most American things we could find to have an Americana Feast! ...believe it or not we were able to find hot dogs, burgers, fries and chips! oh and Spanish beer but it's all good!
Once we got back to the dorm we broke off into groups to cook and then had one hell of a pot luck! Evan and I made grilled cheese! And everyone else got together the rest of the "spread." We spent the night stuffing our faces, teaching the Spaniards and Australians beer pong, and dancing to horrible/amazing American music. Evan declared that we should have off school the next day, but needless to say the Spaniards weren't on the same page.
Thursday night we went out in Alcala with the Australians, Pablo!(our Spanish amigo), and our group for some restaurant/bar hopping. Gabanna Bar has free sangria and beer from 10-12...so obviously that's where we went first! Last week we got to know a few of the bartenders there and they are all so nice! One of the girls, Pilar, offered to take us around to the best spots in town. We had our little dance session...for the record Australian guys and gals have no shame when it comes to dancing, which made for a hell of a dance party. We ended up just staying there for the night and it was an awesome time.
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