Lauren´s first week

hey! por fin escribo algo!
hola chavales. mira lo k pasa es k jano dejo el convertidor de enchufe en toledo asi k me quede sin ordenador hasta ahora! pero nada! mucho k escribir. empecemos al principio.

hey! finally im going to write something!
hey guys. i havent written yet because jano left the outlet converter in toledo and my computer didnt have any battery until now. lots to write, ill start at the beginning.

EL Martes 9 de Febrero
pues el vuelo muy bien! eramos unas 5 personas en el avion y tenia una fila para mi para dormir! pero no he conseguido dormir mas de una hora porque tome un cafe justo antes de despegar pero no pasa nada! hemos llegado just al amanecer (a las 7 y 40 mas o menos) y he hecho algo k hace mucho k no lo hago. me he pegado a la ventana los ultimos 30 minutos para ver madrid y no veis como molo! primero vi toda las luces de la ciudad y las carreteras y luego sale el sol! en ese momento me emocione! luego nada, a casa a dormir un ratillo y comer en casa de la tia de jano. muy rica la comida! muchas gracias mi amor! despues de comer fuimos a ver mi casa y a dejar mis cosas. esta muy bien la casa, bueno por lo menos a mi me gusta y no es muy cara. luego subo fotos. mi habitacion es pequena pero tiene una cama grande, escritorio y armario muy amplio pero tenia k comprar una almohada (me han timado. 20 euros) y perchas. la tia de jano me dejo una manta y yo traje sabanas. Luego fuimos al VIPS y dormi con jano en su casa.

tuesday february 9th
the flight was good! there were like 5 people on the plane with me and i had a whole row for myself to sleep but I could only sleep an hour because i drank coffee write before we took off. but its ok! we got to madrid right around sunrise (around 740) and i did something i havent done in a long time. For the last 30 minutes of the trip i had my nose up to the window waiting to see the city. it was so cool! first i saw all the lights and the streets and then the sun started to come up. i was so excited and i remembered how much i love madrid and spain. jano picked me up and we wen to his house to sleep and then eat lunch. thanks for the yummy lunch jano! after we went to my house! I like it, my room is small but it has a double bed, a desk and a big closet. I did have to buy a pillow (fucking rip off. 20 euros) and hangers. janos aunt let me borrow a blanket. After that we went to VIPS and i slept at janos house.

El miercoles 10 de Febrero
me desperte pronto para ir a mi uni, matricularme, comprar la almohada y sacar dinero para pagar el alquiler. todo muy bien he vuelto a casa de jano y hemos comido cocido ahi. tambien rico! despues dormimos la siesta y fuimos a hacer la compra para mi casa. dormi en casa de jano otra vez el miercoles.

wednesday february 10
i woke up early to go to my school to check in, buy a pillow, and go to the atm so i could pay the rent. That all went fine and afterwards i went back to janos to eat lunch. His aunt made cocido which was really good too! After lunch we took a nap and went grocery shopping for my house. I slept at janos house on wednesday too.

el jueves 11 de febrero
el jueves jano tuvo que ir a la uni para hacer una exposicion y luego llevar a su padre a toledo asi que yo fui a mi casa y vi la tele un buen rato...pero no consegui encontrar ni eligeme ni password ni nada...k decepcion. despues he salido con mis amigos americanos!!! siiii tengo amigos. jejej. fui a casa de laura (de OU) y cenamos en un bar y bebi una cerveza despues fuimos a kapital k hubo fiesta de erasmus! entrada y dos copas por 10 euros. ahi lo he pasado muy bien aunque una copa cuesta 12 euros. eramos laura hill (la conozco del instituto y de las girl scouts) evan y laura hauck (de OU) y unos amigos de laura hill a las 3 y poco nos fuimos laura hauclk y yo a casa. y hacia un frio en su piso k no podeis imaginar. yo me desperte a las 5 y no podia dormir. tenia puesto el abrigo y todo. asi k a las 6 cuando se abre el metro me fui a casa de la tia de jano (jano esta en toledo pero tenia k devolver el secador de pelo a su tia, larga historia y da igual)

thursday februrary 11
thursday jano had to go to school to do a presentation and then take his dad to toledo so i went home and watched tv pretty much all day..but i couldnt find eligeme, passoword or any of the shows i like..very disappointing. Later I went out with my american friends! yes I have friends! haha. I went to Laura Hauck´s (de OU) apartment and we had dinner in a little bar and had a beer. Then we went to Kapital (a big discoteca) because there was an erasmus (erasmus is what they call exchange students) party there. We got in and got two drinks for 10 euros. That was awesome. There I hung out with laura hill (ive known her since elementary school) evan and laura hauck (OU) and some friends of laura hill until around 3 and laura and I went back to her house to sleep. It was so cold in there that I woke up at 5 and absolutely could not sleep even with my coat on so at 6 when the metro opened i went to janos aunts house (he was in toledo but i had to take her back her hairdryer, its a long story and it deosnt matter) i slept there until 11.

el viernes 12 de febrero. el viernes he ido a una reunion para estudiantes de erasmus en la facultad de filologia a la 1. despues quede con jano en su uni para ir a extremadura!!!!!! una amiga de jano, cris, tiene ahi una casa rural asi k fuimos quince ahi para FIESTA! llegamos a las 8 y algo, hicimos pizza para cenar y despues bebimos. jugams al poker (perdi pero jano gano) al party (el mejor juego del mundo) y mas! despues bailamos algunos se disfrazaron y a las 3 me fui a dormir.

friday februrary 12.
Friday I had to go to a meeting for all the erasumus students in the college of languge and literature at 1. Then I met jano at his school to go to Extremadura! (it is the ¨state¨ to the west of madrid about 3 hours away) One of janos friends has a house there and 15 of us went there to PARTYYY!! We got there around 8, made pizza for dinner and then we drank. We played poker (I lost but jano won),party (the best game in the world) and more! Later we dancedd and some people put on their costumes (here people dress up for mardi gras like we do for halloween) and at 3i went to bed.

el sabado 13 de febrero.
el sabado nos levantamos a las 12 o asi, desayunamos y volvi a la cama, k me dolia mucho la cabeza. despues comimos pasta (un poco fria pero bien). luego por la tarde jugamos al party otra vez. luego carnaval! yo me disfrace de asistente francesa y jano del papa. teniamos mucho sueno asi k nos fuimos a dormir a las 2 pero yo me desperte a las 4 y volvi a la fiesta! luego me dormi a las 10 y media de la manana.

saturday february 13.
Saturday we got up at 12, ate breakfast, and i went back to bed because my head hurt. Later we ate pasta (kind of cold but fine). Then we played party some more! THEN MARDI GRAS! I dressed up as a french maid and jano went as the pope. We were tired so we went to bed around 2 but i woke up at 4 and went back upstairs to the party! Around 10:30 am i went to bed.

el domingo 14 de febrero (San Valentin!!!)
el domingo me desperte a las 12 y jano y yo nos fuimos pronto porque tuvimos que ir a toledo a por el abrigo de jano y lo del enchufe para mi. llegamos ahi a las 5 mas o menos. yo me duche porque en extremadura solo salia agua fria. despues estuvimos un rato con su familia y nos fuimos a las 7 para poder ir al cine. Fuimos a ver Invictus y no nos ha gustado nada. supongo k en ingles tiene k ser mejor pero es k en espanol todas las frases inspirantes no inspiraban. nos hacian reir. luego yo me fui a casa a dormir en mi cama por primera vez!

sunday february 14 (Valentines Day!)
Sunday I woke up at 12 and Jano and I left early because we had to go to toledo to get his coat and my outlet converter thing, We got there around 5. I took a shower because in extremadura the water was freezing. Then we just hung out with his family for a little while and at 7 we left so we could go to the movies. We saw Invictus and we didnt really like it. I assume its better in English but in Spanish all of the inspiring speeches just sounded silly and werent convincing. After I went home to sleep in my bed for the first time!

el lunes 15 de febrero (primer dia de clase)
esta mañana me desperte a las 7 para ir a clase a las 8 y 30. la primera clase fatal. Fui a gramatica espanola 1 y yo no sabia k fueron la mitad de las cosas k dijo. hablaba de complementos de regimen y cosas k yo no habia oido en mi vida asi k a esa clase no pienso volver. despues tuve teatro espanol del siglo de oro. ese profesor me cae bien y creo k va a ser facil. luego otra reunion inutil, pero me regalaron una mochila y una agenda! despues comi en la cafeteria de la uni con laura hill y su companera de piso y fuimos juntas a mitos literarios espanoles. estuvieron evan y laura hauck tambien. El mismo profesor de la otra clase, el k me cae bien tambien da esta. :) Cuando sali vine a la uni de jano k el tiene clase hasta las 830 y yo me quedo aqui con su ordenador hasta k salga. luego iremos juntos a su casa para cenar y ya. como podeis ver tengo mucho tiempo para escribir todo esto en espanol y luego traducirlo.

monday february 15 (first day of class)
this morning i woke up at 7 because i had class at 830. The first class was just terrible. I went to spanish grammar one and i didnt know what half the things he said were. He was talking about complements of regimen and things that i had never heard of in my life so I am not going back to that class. Then I had spanish theater of the golden century. I like that professor and i think hell be pretty easy. Then I had another stupid meeting for exchange students but they gave me a bookbag and a planner! I ate lunh with Laura Hill and her roommate in the cafeteria and we went to the next class together--spanish literary myths. Laura Hauck and Evan are in that class too and its the same professor that I like. :) When I got out of class I came to Janos university because he has class until 830 and im hanging out in the library with his computer until he gets out. Then well eat dinner together. As you can see I have a lot of time to write all of this and then translate it.

Love you and miss you all!