Par-tee en la Piscina!

Thursday was our last day in Madrid, and our last night in the Colegio Mayor (thank God!) It was still a little sad though. We all knew we would be seeing less of each other when we moved in with our host families :( But we had kind of a relaxing last day in Madrid.

For my Culture class, we visited El Museo del Prado, the amazing museum in Madrid. We had to study the paintings of El Greco, Diego Valazquez and Goya. The museum is huge and you could spend days there, but we only had enough time for these three artists. The paintings were amazing. I would like to go back maybe on another free weekend to look around some more.

After that, my Conversation and Composition class was meeting to see a movie in the theatre. We saw Bajo las Estrellas. It was a cute little movie about a man who is kind of slacker...he´s a street musician and needs to get his life together. His father dies and he has to help his brother out. He ends up making friends with 8 year old daughter of his brother´s girlfriend. It was kind of a bitter sweet movie. And by the end of it, we all realized that we understood Spanish better than we thought we did! I think Uncle Bob, you would really like this movie... so keep yours eyes open for it!

Back at the Colegio Mayor, no one wanted to do any class work (and believe me, there was plenty to do). We all just wanted to hang out together, since it was our last night there, living all together and enjoying the horrible food, and the tiny showers:) We hung out in the hallway for a while, then later in MacKenzie and I´s room. We set up a Facebook account for our neighbor, Alberto, so we could keep in contact with him. He is such a nice, nice boy...we thought :)

MacKenzie and I got an interesting wake up call a few hours later around 6 a.m. I woke up to a really loud knock on our door. MacKenzie didn´t move, so I waited a second...but there it was again. So I jumped up and answered the door. Who was standing there? Alberto yelling "Piscina, Piscina...par-teeee en la piscina!" (piscina = pool). I touched his arm to get him to stop yelling, and he was soaking wet! I said Alberto "Have you already been in the pool?" He just nodded his head and smiled. He had been out at a party celebrating the end of his finals and was pretty drunk.

He kept yelling so I pulled him inside so he wouldn´t wake anyone up and get us in trouble. Then he saw MacKenzie, and started yelling, " MAAA-KENNN-SEEE! MAA-KEN-SEEEEEE!" (We had told him earlier in the week that it was funny the way he said her name haha). So he´s talking to us trying to get us to go to the pool. He pulled MacKenzie´s covers off of her and threatened to pour water on her too! Then....he walks over and picks up our chair, stands up on our bed and says he´s going to throw it out the window if we don´t go to the pool with him! I grabbed the chair from him and told him "No!" So he finally got the idea and started walking out the door, defeated. Then he turned around and came back to say in the very little English that he knows, " YOU....ARE....BORING!" and he walked out the door and told us to wake him up at 8. HaHAHAHAH

Two hours later, MacKenzie and I headed next door, glass of water in hand. We knocked on his door and nothing...so we just walked in. There was Alberto, sleeping like a rock with his alarm clock and cell phone alarm going off. haha. We started sprinkling water on him and yelling "Te despiertas borracho!" (Wake up drunkard) He finally opened his eyes and MacKenzie asked him if he was still drunk...he just nodded his head and laid his head back on the pillow. But we saw him emerge a little while later, showered, dressed and headed for breakfast. Before we left for Segovia, MacKenzie and I made sure we got our picture taken with this boy! We will never forget his memorable send off from the Colegio Mayor!