Madrid

Part 2 of spring break was spent in Madrid, España!  It was a blast. The first morning we slept in until noon but then we went out and saw the sights.  Madrid is such a beautiful city.  It has a small city feel even though it's huge.

On the second day we went to Museo Nacional del Prado and then to Parque del Buen Retiro aka the most magical park ever.  If I lived in Madrid, I would spend most of my time there, it was just so peaceful and beautiful.

While in Madrid, we went out for tapas (OMG YUM) a few times, celebrated La Pascua Perfecta on Easter, met all of Helen's friends, went for a hike, and just enjoyed our time.

I went to school with her, which consisted of me sitting outside in the grass reading all day while she was in classes.  The university feels more like a high school than Leeds, just because everyone hangs out on campus and eats lunch together and things like that.  It's quite fun!  I also got to go to tutoring with her which was in the outskirts of the city.  Most families live in apartments in the city, so that was a bit different.  The two girls she teaches are cute and pretty good at English!  We just played silly games like MASH and talked about Justin Bieber.  I also tried to read Disney books in Spanish but gave up quickly... translating Hercules doesn't work well if I haven't seen the movie in about 10 years.
I got to listen to Spain spanish which is interesting, and got to practice speaking, but only a little bit. I was embarrassed in front of Helen and her friends who are all fluent. Helen has a great group of friends there and I had such a good time, I'm missing them!