Bodegón

this week has gone by really quickly, considering at this time last week i was in italy. it's good to be back in madrid; i'm back in a place i know and get around easily, and can communicate with the people. being in other countries made me appreciate how much spanish i really know.
tuesday i skipped class at university in the morning because i needed to register for skidmore classes in the middle. i'm taking medieval drama (for my early period requirement in english), 19th century american lit with a professor that i love, and then my other two classes got to be anything i wanted! it was like freshman year all over again, except this time i don't need to search for things fulfill requirements! so i'm taking a class about the history of the 4 nations in great britian, and intro to latin (if i don't get into classical mythology, which i am still waiting to hear about from the professor). it should be a good semester. only two literature classes, not three like in the fall at skidmore. and i'm taking a break from spanish because i only need one more class, and it was offered at the same time as medieval drama, so i'm going to wait until next semester. ahhh senior year! it scares me to be so old! i'm turning 21 next week and i just cannot believe that i am finally this old! my last year at skidmore is coming! thank goodness i plan to go straight to grad school because i am not ready to live outside of the school world yet. my friend jessica and i have made a list of things we want to do next year, and i will share it with you:
-make beer and wine (to drink at graduation!)
-make yogurt
-make croissants
-make lots of sangria
-bake lots of bread (sourdough, foccaccia, whole wheat, etc.)
-canning (pickles, jams from freshly picked berries, maybe that we pick ourselves if there are any left the first week of september)
-make our own granola to go with our homemade yogurt
-make pasta (she has a pasta maker)
-make ice cream (and she has a ice cream maker)
so i have found a friend who is equally domestic and into eating as i am! this is a busy list; the goal is to do one a weekend. i'm really excited to live in a house again with friends, and not spanish parents, as great as they are. i have a lot of postcards left over that i was thinking i would make into a poster and get it laminated. and i have picked up some new art posters as well, so our house will be full of the usual maps and art that i love. maybe this year other people will bring wall decorations haha, because last semester i think i pretty much decorated the living room myself. but one can never have too many maps, i always say.
back to madrid though. other highlights of the week include going to the malaria exhibit at the national library (where you cannot actually use the library, as we found out), and going out to the wine bar in chueca. they have a really delicious vino rosado there. saturday, i went to the museo thyssen finally and i really liked it! it has a bit of everything, art from the 1600's to the present day, including a lot of picasso and gaugain and kandinksy. today i went to the flea market with jessica and bought a pair of fake ray bans wayfarers that are pretty cute, and then wandered around by myself because she went to go watch the bullfight that we could go to with the program but i didn't want to.
so this friday is the trip to copenhagen! it is looking like it will be my last trip unfortunately, but i'm so glad to be going! and since madrid has been so chilly, it won't even be like entering the cold white north because i am already living in it. i tried on all my spring dresses today in my room. i want to wear them so badly! warm up madrid! RAHHHH!