Weekends

Sunday morning and no rain is falling! jaja, that is a little pun I just so cleverly made up. It is ussually raining in the mornings and there is a song by Gavin Degraw and the first line is " Sunday morning rain is falling..." Well, I thought it was funny, however getting on now that we have established that it is indeed Sunday.

I have had an amazing weekend so far! Friday we did go to the mall as maddie had said. Claudia and I arrived at the mall ontime (for once!) at 5:00 p.m. and Silvia and Maddie showed up a long twenty minutes later. Of course they smiled and gave many kisses as apologies. Claudia rolled her eyes and hurried off because she had to get some work done so I stayed behind with Maddie and Silvia. I'm pretty sure we stopped at EVERY single store in the mall... EVery store, It was great. I bought shorts in Blanco, earings in Six, a 'Hersay' (more on that later) in berksha, and finally a star wars shirt in H & M. Silvia almost cried when she saw the star wars shirt that maddie and I decided to buy ( we split the bill). She forbade us from buying it, and when that failed she attempted to steal it from us and hide it. She was still trying to dispose of it after we had bought the shirt. After five hours of this I am proud to say I have possesion of the shirt. Back to the Jersay... Apparently in spain there are significant differences between what makes a sweater a jacket and a hersay. I'm still not so sure but aparently sweaters don't open, hersays always open but are about the same material as a hoodie, jackets open and can be thin or thick but... ok I'm not very sure. All I am sure about is that I thought that I bought a sweater and Silvia was appaled that I didn't know that I had bought a jersay. I really didn't care, 'as long as I like it' is my motto when shopping. For the rest of the night we ran around laughing at eachother and making jokes. We ended up eating pizza with Claudia for dinner, which was a perfect end to a fun night.

On Saturday we had churros with sugar for breakfest, which was treat for all of us. Yum! The rest of the morning, I didn't do much so I will skip to lunch. Lunch was eaten with the cousins and Grandmother. They gave us all presents which I thought was so nice especially since I had never met these cousins before. We had a lasagna type dish as our first course, which was deliscious! Second course everyone had chicken, except me, my host mom was nice enough to prepare tofu for me! It was grilled, dipped in a lemon and oregono sauce and served with oil. Very filling! Afterwards Claudia and I got ready for a night on the town. I wore black tights with shorts which is a very popular style here. It was really wierd to where shorts in winter but much more comfortable than wearing a skirt which for some reason is more popular in the states. We then ran to the mall because we were late. We were going out to a discoteca with only the french kids and their host brothers and sisters, or so I thought. About forty other people from my school came. Later about thirty more came to join the party. Our huge group got on the bus and headed out for the discoteca, again this is what I thought. As we got off we went to this little CVS like store and people kept going in and coming out with bottle shaped bags... mm. Turns out they were paying people over 18 to buy them beverages. They also would buy lemon sodas so they could mix their drinks. Then we went to the park and they started mixing drinks as if they had been doing it forever. A lot of people from my class had a lot of fun in the park that night. Claudia and I left the park after about 45 minutes to go to the discotec. At the discotec, this one was called Sala green? ( I have all the admission tickets to show off when I get back home so you all will see), and was a little different than the other one. The dance floor actually was a few feet off the ground in Sala Green and there were couches that decorated the edges of the room. There were less people in this disco, but it was still just as fun ( yes there was also a smoke machine in this disco). We danced for about two hours before leaving by bus. After all this activity I thought we would be going home, mmm no, instead we went to dinner at the fancy mcdonalds. It was there that I got into a mini argument with some of the french boys who were convinced that France is and always will be a better nation than America. When I demanded a reason they answered saying "Food" and with that they nodded towards the mcdonalds sign. I stopped talking, they had won fair and square jaja. Dad picked us up at the mall and we got home at about 11:45 p.m. Claudia and I stayed up much later taking pictures and talking In my room. Almost everyday We either go to her room or mine and talk or exchange songs. They love Lady Gaga and I am starting to share their love. She has also taught me how to salsa dance and that is so much fun... well fun for her to watch because I am not very good. But I love our little room sessions.

Today: Sunday - I learned some bad news early this morning, my grandma died yesterday. My family was very comforting about it and Claudia and I have spent most of the day talking and listening to music... I am so grateful that I am close enough to my family here that I can tell them what's going on with my family in the U.S. I love my family here, we have been through so much in four weeks and I am not looking foward to saying good-bye in two weeks. The latter part of Sunday was definately the mellow part of the weekend. Tomorow I have school so, I will talk again later.
I miss everyone,
kisses... India
p.s. In one of my other posts I spelled Pyrenees, Pirineos... I apologize for those who were confused, that is the spanish spelling of the mountain chain. While I am talking, I also apologize for any other spelling errors, Speaking in spanish all the time keeps me from maintaining my english.