Barely a day in Madrid and we have already had a small Erasmus reunion with our Spanish Madridilians, Eduardo and Carlos. It was very nice to see them again. I met Edu on the day I arrived in the local pub and Carlos joined Edu and us for an Erasmus dinner on wednesday. Edu is in charge of all the international students and he had organized an Asturias (region in the north of Spain) dinner for Spanish and international students. As I am not the latter I fitted myself in the first group..the Spanish. The dinner reminded me, Carmen and Carlos very much of our dinners in Stockholm (for those of you who remember it was similar to the crayfish party except no hej lang gooooooaaarrr). Below you see Edu poring a drink Asturias style and me trying to imitate..spot the difference!
During the dinner - where I did my best to disguise my foreignness (I think I fooled a Polish student who thought I was a painter from Toledo) - Carmen and I won tickets to the bullfighting on Sunday. Now this is against my principles but I have decided to go anyway (this is what 80% of the Spanish say also, so I follow) so Sunday promises to be special although more rain has been forecast. I have been assured by the locals that it has never rained like this before..but then again, this comes from the same people who eat pigs ears as delicacy!
The photos below are of Carmen and me with firstly Carlos (still single girls..write me an email for his details!) and Eduardo ¨El Jefe¨.
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4 comments:
It's incredible what I can do when I've been drinking too much!!
¡¡Increible lo que puedo hacer cuando he estado bebiendo más de la cuenta!!
Thomas!!! Een weblog! nice, nice. No, I see it already, it's just all very nice. ;)
iThomas! Un Weblog! Bien, Bien, no, yo la regardo el es todo bueno. ;)
(Como es ma Espanyol?) Oh and how do you do the upside-down exclamation marks?
and stick a link on there for my weblog!
Tomasito!
great fun to read about your adventures in Spain - keep on writing!
Besos y saludos desde Hamburgo!
hubi cuarenta
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