true hart failures...

So I'm assuming you have all noticed that the title of this blog is "Hart Failures" right? Well, I got another one for ya....

Friday night I went out with some friends and we ended up at a club called Pacha, I'm pretty sure it's a chain. It was really cool, I had a fun time, etc. Well, fun as in I lost my phone and my wallet. I have no idea how it happened. It just did.....BUT I was extremely lucky in that nothing was charged to either my debit or credit cards and I really didn't have much cash with me at all. Nevertheless, it is a great annoyance, one that I easily could have avoided had I just paid more attention and taken more care. Sol, my senora that I live with (who is AMAZING btw, I love her!!), told me that one time some one stole her wallet and charged 6000 euro to her card!! And on top of that, she didn't get ANY of the money back because the banks just don't work that way. How ridiculous is that? I told her that is identity fraud (it is right?) and that was absurd that she didn't get anything back, but she said that's life, and she's learned to be super careful about everything now. So have I. And I always have to learn the hard way...but that's the Laura way of doing things I guess.

Anyway, Saturday night was La Noche en Blanco, the Night in White, where a section of the city is roped off to cars and thousands (I heard 2 million but I have no idea how accurate that is) of people just walk around the streets, and the museums are open (the Prado and the Reina Sofia) for free entrance, and the Royal palace was also open and there were free concerts, etc. It was really cool. We went out to go to the Royal Palace but it hadn't opened yet when we got there (around midnight) and there was already a huge line...so we just decided to wander the streets, etc. Everyone was carrying these white balloons (get it, la noche en BLANCO) and I really wanted one so I asked this guy on the street where he got it and he gave me his!! I was so excited, it's almost embarrasing...but then I tied it around my finger and it slipped right off and went up into the sky. So there's another hart failure for ya....But yeah, we didn't end up going into any of the free entrance places because it was too crowded and things were too far away. But I had a really fun time! The only problem was...we were out until 5, and the metro was closed. No biggie, Laura (my roommie) and I would just grab a taxi...well that was the exact idea of EVERYOTHER 1,999,998th person.....so it took us nearly an hour to get a taxi. When we did I told him he was a gift from God and Laura promptly fell asleep (it was almost 6 am..). So home at 6. Honestly, that's no big deal here, that's normally when I get home [sidenote: the metro actually opens at 6, and on Thursday we took the metro home from this huge 7-story club called Kapital that was insane and had some cirus act deal that I have pictures of that I'll add later]...except...that we were going to El Rastro on Sunday. El Rastro is this HUGE outdooor market on Sunday mornings that sells a ton of stuff. We were going specifially for pasminas (I bought 3 for 2 euro each!!!!!), but they also have t-shirts, jewelry, leather items like purses, shoes, jackets, other clothes, etc. So we had to wake up at 11 to go there. So basically, we were dying, but mission accomplished with the 3 pasminas! Laura also bought a Real Madrid jersey because she went to the game on Sunday!! I didn't go because the tickets were extremelyyyyyy expensive. But she had a lot of fun (we won!) and had an awesome Ronaldo jersey (btw if you didn't know, he's my boyfriend. yep. be jealous) from el Rastro!!

Then Monday we had class, etc. I've decided to switch into a different USP class because 1-it will count for my major, 2-it also looks fairly easy, 3-i have friends in it, 4-lots of spanish kids in it! So Tuesday was my first day of that class, and I talked with the professor, and everyone is supposed to be in groups and since I was late, I'm now in a group of ALL Spanish kids. And he was like, yeah just talk to them for your group stuff. Uhhh, maybe give me a name or an email?? People just don't do email here like they do at home. Email is my life. I almost ALWAYS have my email open. Here, I guess it's hard for some one to even email you back. Whatever. So I dunno what I'll do about that, I guess wait until Monday to talk to my group? Oops. Oh well. But I'm all registered and everything for my classes, so yay!

Tomorrow we get to meet Vicki, Sol's oldest daughter, who's pregnant! She has been trying to get pregnant for some 6 years and this is her FOURTH insemination thing. But she's FINALLY PREGNANT! So everyone is suuuuuuuuuper excited for the baby, who'll be born while we're here! I'm so excited. Everyone is just so happy for this baby, it is already loved SO MUCH. :)

Well I think that's all I got. Suz - I made the font bigger, can you tell? Is it easier to read?? You and your old eyes ;) JUST KIDDING! anywho, love you all!! miss you a ton!! xoxoxo