Saturday October 1st. It’s already October!? Jen and I had a pretty lazy day. We woke up about 9:30 and headed to the Orange Movíl store to get our phones up and running, once again. That lady hates us. I am dreading going back on Monday to see if we can get internet and cable using just our passports. After we got everything squared away and we were connected once again with the rest of the world we decided to have breakfast at the churro café. Fresh homemade churros dipped in hot melted chocolate washed down warm sweetened milk. Oh man, by far the best thing I have eaten here so far!! Jen and I headed back to bed once we got home. It’s Saturday, we do what we want!
We were woken up by our landlord at 2pm who came with our new dishes and lots of little finishing touches for our apartment. Yayayay! We washed the dishes and put them away. I decided to go ahead and wash my one bath towel I bought so I could shower later. The washing machine needed a good rinse so we ran it once with detergent and hot water to clean it out. Not 10 minutes later and water was leaking everywhere! It was coming out from the bottom of the machine, the top, and it was even leaking into the cabinet next to it. I used my one towel to wipe up the mess and decided that it was broken, shoot. So as of right now I am using a tshirt as a towel. How… miserable. Especially since our brand spankin new water heater maybe holds 5 gallons at most. The winter is gonna suck having cold showers. I can barely stand it now!!
After the washing machine fiasco, Jen and I decided to heat up our leftovers in our new microwave. As you can tell our landlord loves us and bought us pretty things for our piso. Too bad something has gone wrong with everything. Oh Spain. Our microwave set of the breaker. And again. And again. So we ate our food cold for lunch. Over lunch we decided to catch a movie. We landed on the 8:30pm showing of La Piel Que Habito starring Antonio Bandaras, my mother’s favorite actor. We didn’t know where the theater was so we set out on an adventure to find it. Three miles later we were lost in the middle of nowhere next to the ship yard on the river. My google directions on my phone definitely led us away from where we wanted to be. Jen and I started to cut across a park that had no grass and was very empty. Suddenly she says, “Oh, I think this is the park that we’re not supposed to go in at night because it’s unsafe.” Good thinking! We came across two young boys that had just got done playing basketball and I asked them for directions. One boy told us to keep walking and we’d find it. We thanked them and kept walking briskly because it didn’t feel safe. Come to find out we passed by couples making out. Apparently the park is for smooching late at night. Guess what I’m doing when my man comes to visit!?
We finally made it to this huge mall with the movie theater inside. We had missed the 8:30 showing by 30 mins and stumbled across this awesome new rooftop bar overlooking the river. Cervesa? Sure!! Mas?? Claro que si! By the 10:30 movie we were buzzed and ready to go! We stood in a very very long line for the ticket counter and discovered that there is assigned seating!! Crazy right? The movie was crazy weird and we still can’t understand why it is rated so high on all the websites. I wish I could say we got lost in translation but no, it was just creepy.
Sunday the 2nd, we decided to go to Punta Umbria, the beach closest to town. For only 2Euro you can take the bus down to the beach and take it easy. Nothing here in Spain is open on Sunday and the streets are bare. Everyone is at the beach. The weather was perfect. Mid-80s with a nice breeze. The water was cool and there were pretty good waves, I wish I would have had my boogie board! There were tons of beautiful seashells everywhere but they did not feel good to walk on. We caught a late lunch at this tiny place on the beach. It was nice to hang out, eat, drink a coke, and watch all the kids play…. Naked. I can’t wait to go back next Sunday. On the way home the bus was packed so we had to wait another hour for the next bus. But no pasa nada, we grabbed another beer and munched on some snacks. Tomorrow is my first meeting with my school and the work week begins. I am so anxious to know what it is going to be like. Thank goodness I am in contact with the other auxillar at my school. We are meeting at the bus station in the morning to venture together. I’ll write soon!! Hasta Luego!
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