K here it is
9/13
Today kinda sucked. It was ok, had class, lunch, we had a cooking class which was cool. Then I found out that kids on this trip read this. I thought it would be a good idea to write about exactly what happened and what I felt, but now it’s obvious that some stuff is not meant to be shared, especially on the internet. I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me that some stuff could get people in trouble. Somebody brought it to my attention that if I had written about people doing drugs or serious stuff like that, luckily I didn’t, people could get in serious trouble, which is obviously true I just did not think about it. So basically I am retarded and a huge asshole, so I need to clear the air with some people tomorrow, I hope it goes well. I fucking suck at confrontation and avoid it at all costs but I can’t do that right now. I don’t want the group to get all split up that would be a disaster. And it would be my fault, which would be the worst. As you could tell if you read beforehand I had had a problem or two with someone in the group and hopefully we can work that out, and I disagreed I guess you could say with what another did one night, but otherwise I really do not have any problems with anyone else. I never wanted to start any problems with this I just wanted to tell it like it was I guess, I don’t know it was just a bad idea. Ok ok sorry I’m done, I just wanted to get that off my chest. Um so today we had a cooking class which was pretty fun, we made a like fried potato pancake kinda and gazpacho which both actually tasted pretty good. After that we went to the JMU office and got our class schedules for the rest of the time here. I only have one class before 12, and only one class on Tuesdays and Fridays. Pretty solid schedule. Otherwise, I have a bunch of work to do tomorrow, there is a test and a presentation on Thursday so we shall work on the tomorrow. Buenas noches.
Peace, Love, and Wish me luck
Tim
Nothing really happened til 9/15
We had our final day of Span 400 today, had presentations and a test. Our presentation went pretty well, I used my announcer/Chupacabra/Pan voice to introduce the radio show and for the weather report. Claire’s groups presentation was hilarious, for their commercial they started playing that Sarah McLaughlin song that is in those ASPCA commercials and Jordan was talking about something but I couldn’t hear her because I was laughing so hard. The test went OK too I hope, not super worried about it. Afterwards we all went out to the casetas and got celebratory cervezas. I was feeling a little sick this day so after we had lunch I passed out until like 6 because I wanted to get some sleep because we had to wake up mad early on Friday to leave for the weekend trip. This night me and AJ decided to go downstairs and chill with Kelsey, Pepe (her host brother) and Jitam (Pepe’s wife) and her friend for their little hookah night thing. Her friend was from Slovakia and was pretty cute. We hung out on their patio and played some Trivial Pursuit. Haha that sounds really lame but it was actually pretty fun, Pepe and Jitam are hilarious, and me and AJ killed it at Trivial Pursuit. I am surprisingly good at the new like updated version of Trivial Pursuit, I have way too much useless knowledge. One question was “Who is the artist that is known for drawing “happy little trees”. Bob Ross, of course. What’s up Nick Hayes. So yeah after that we went to bed at like 12 because we had to wake up at 6 the next morning. Joder. Now pronounced Joh-der. Completely American style. It’s funny, I promise.
Peace, Love, and Garber Crew What It Do
Tim
9/16
Hot damn we woke up early. Still dark out in good ol Sally when we walked over to Plaza G.G (pronounced Hay Hay). This morning proved to be more entertaining than I expected. Two people showed up still hammmmmhammmmed from the night before and hilarity ensued. Got on the bus at 7 and left soon after, majority of people passed out, I waited to see the sunrise which was pretty beautiful, and then I lost steam quickly and fell asleep. After a couple hours of sleeping on the bus we arrived at a prehistoric cave that we got a tour of, it was at a place called Altamira, which is in the Cantabria region of Spain, its in the north. This cave had actual drawings of bison and deer and shit from prehistoric times. It was fuckin cool. Around a couple corners I thought Manbearpig was gonna jump out from around a corner, but no seriously it was fuckin really cool in there. It is crazy that those drawings are still preserved so well. And like back then, they drew them so that when it is lit up by torchlight it would look like it was moving around, like a movie. I did not know that, that’s so cool. After that we drove up to the hotel we would be staying in that night. The road we took to get there was skettttccchhhh, we were in a huge bus and the road would like blind turn around a mountain side with a cliff on the other side. Jesus put on a movie for us to watch, it was Bangkok Dangerous, you know, one of the recent Nicholas Cage movies that suck asshole. It was real bad. Like really really bad. I went up to sit with Claire and we had fake relationship talk, it’s a joke between us that we’re dating because every picture we’re in together looks like it, and also she’s like 6’2 and I am NOT even close. Then we decided to watch the movie and immediately fell asleep. I woke up just in time to see us pull into our hotel. I literally didn’t believe it. It was a really nice hunting lodge looking building with a absolutely gigantic mountain right behind it. Like they planted a hotel right in the valley of this big ass mountain. It was the coolest thing ever. Someone woke up, looked outside and literally gasped. Crazy shit. They should not let us into nice hotels like this, we were far too loud, but it was cool because there were a ton of old British people staying there and they don’t give a fuck about anything anymore. Like they don’t even try to speak Spanish to anyone, it is god damn hilarious. We attempted to hike up a mountain trail behind the hotel but we did not get very far because it started to thunderstorm a lil bit so we decided to go back down instead of getting toasted on the top of a mountain. Dinner at this fancy hotel was increddddiblleee we got a fat steak and we all demolished it. That night, since there was nowhere really to go out to, we all chilled in the Kelseys room, aka Kelsey Manor, and got drunk together. It was a lot more fun than I thought it was going to be, eventually people started scattering to go to sleep and eventually it was just me, Drew, and the Kelseys. So it was about 1 AM and we were chillin and flippin through the channels and I pass one that was clearly porn, but I was flipping so fast that I couldn’t stop it in time you know so we got just a flash of someone getting railed. I got to the next channel and paused and was like ….did you guys just see that? Was that porn on basic cable? So we started watching The Matrix in German, but not really cuz we were talking. Then as a joke I switched it back to the porn, but it looked a lot like The Big Lebowski, and I was confused for a little bit til I realized that they weren’t the same actors as that movie. And then I figured it out. They were playing a porno version of The Big Lebowski. Which I can only assume is called The Big Leblowski or possibly The Big Lecockski. And then I realized that the sound was Spanish but the people were talking in English. So. At 1 AM on basic cable in Spain, they were playing a Big Lebowski spin-off porno that someone took the time to dub into Spanish. One of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. We screwed around for a while after that, Drew showed us how he can make his hand into a claw, etc. Passed out at 2:30 ish.
9/17
Woke up vurry tired. Manned up and went down for breakfast at 8:30. All I fuckin want here is a bagel and cream cheese for breakfast. Just once. And I am never going to get it. Anyway, this morning we went on the gondola to go up into the mountain right behind the hotel. It looked like it was going to be a crappy day because there was so much fog so we were not really that excited. Then we got on the gondola. It went all the way over the fog and up and up wayyy up this mountain. The view at the top was unbelievable. Completely insane. Check out my pictures on facebook, it was indescribable. We hiked around up there for a while, we found some words someone wrote with rocks on the mountain side and rearranged them to say Go JMU. Good stuff. We chilled there, taking pictures, being in awe, all that stuff for a while, it was so cool. Probably the coolest thing we have done so far. After that we got on the bus and drove til lunch time, stopped in some shitty town that had bad restaurants and it was gloomy out and awful. We went to some other cave next, it was ok it wasn’t as good as the other one. Thennnn we went to the Spanish Inquisition torture museum which was craaaazzzyy. I don’t know if it can really be called a museum, it was a house with a bunch of old torture devices and descriptions of how they were used and it was real gross. One of them, they hung you upside down naked and just started sawing you in half. Like. No. Stop it. Another one was they tied your feet to a tree and got them wet and then got a goat really thirsty and had it lick the bottom of your feet down to the bone. What. Who. How, what, what in the hell who thinks of that. Like, jesus christ. So that was pretty interesting. We proceeded to drive up to Santander, the capital of the region, which is right on the beach. And so was our hotel. Right on the beach. I don’t know why they let us stay in such nice places. We really shouldn’t. Disturbing the patrons and whatnot. Someone actually told us to be quiet this night. Not sure why that took so long. Anyways, dinner this night was ridiculously good, and the table I was at was ridiculously inappropriate. Some people may have been a tad drunk. So basically the whole time everyone was making inappropriate comments to each other the whole time, with the teachers at the table next to us. That night we were actually in a city so we could actually go out which was cool. So we started pregaming, got mahself a 2.99 euro bottle of wine, thew it in a plastic bottle and brought it outside with errbody to get it started. Apparently people aren’t allowed to be loud outside because some dude told us to be quiet at 10 on a Saturday night in Spain. So there’s that. But yeah so a couple of us ended up finding the live night area of Santander, found a bar that gave us lollipops with every drink, don’t know why, but I didn’t hate it. Then we found a pretty sick club, round bar in the middle with floor all around it, the counter would change colors every couple seconds, would only take a shot when the bar light was green. Sup Chels. Was on my damage control shit and bought everyone shots and spent like 30 euro haha GREAT I MAKE GREAT DECISIONS. Pretty standard night, it was fun, we got back to the hotel at like 2 maybe or 3 and hung out for a little while and then passed out.
9/18
We left in the morning, and it was raining so we didn’t get to go see whatever museum that was planned so we just headed home. We stopped in a town called Burgos for lunch and we were there for like 2 hours ish. It was pretty fun, just walking around with everybody being tired and funny. There was a store with sweet watches for 5 euros but I like didn’t realize they were that cheap so I left and when I came back ready to buy some it was closed for siesta. As cool as siesta is, its pretty annoying. Shit closes from like 2 to 5. But yeah I need to get a sick watch. Def on my to-do list. Nothing else really notable happened today, it was fun though it was like the morning after a party where everyone’s still a little drunk slash delirious because no one slept so everything is hilarious. We got home, had some dinner, and slept. Very very solid weekend overall. That mountain we went up was possibly the coolest place I have been besides the Grand Canyon and Zion and all that. Traveling with this group is hysterical too. Oh my god I almost forgot. Me, AJ, and Reid went out to try to find a bar here that would play American Football because the 4:15 games start here at like 10 so it works out like that. And we fuckin found one. It was an awesome bar, you walk down a flight of stairs to get there, its called St Patrick’s Museum and it was super tight. There were two hot ass bartenders working, and we sat next to this one dude Jose who works at a casino and we talked to him about football and a bunch of stuff. It was so cool. Oh and also it was the Pats game so I was basically in heaven. Sitting at a bar with my boys, speaking to people in Spanish and watching the Patriots win, can’t get much better than that. We watched the whole second half and then stayed there until closing time, when the bartenders gave everyone still there free shots. Such a sick night. Arite lets finish this post. Night kids
Peace, Love, and I have almost spent $1000 already
Tim
9/19
Actual classes started today. It was a little bit overwhelming. Actually it was a lot overwhelming. These teachers, unlike the last one, talk pretty fast, don’t say anything in English, and have an actual curriculum that we have to understand and all this, but I cant really because I don’t speak Spanish very well yet. Kinda freaked me out today. I am in Spanish Civ, theres a bunch of us in that class, Medical Spanish, theres only 6 of us, Intro to Spanish Lit, with a bunch of us and a really cool teacher she is hilarious, and Span 320 with Tkac, which will be helpful. I switched out of the Cinema y Literatura class because honestly it scared me. And I figured I would rather take a class with Tkac who I already know, and reinforce my grammar and whatnot, then have a class with some lady I cant understand, watching movies I don’t understand. And I get that it would have been more of a challenge and I kind of gave up, but like I don’t know I just feel better about being in class with Tkac, because this first day freaked me out so much. Oh, right, Tkac is the teacher I had for 300 at JMU, he is a professor there, who I really liked, and he is the JMU faculty member in residence here. He is the man and one of the reasons I decided to come here this semester. It is weird having a real schedule of classes here. When it comes time for tests and papers I am not going to be a happy camper. I can’t even write papers in English. Anyway yeah so some people went out this night but I decided not to because me and AJ stayed out late and got real drunk the night before.
9/20
More classes, cannot really recall anything special that happened this day. Oh right, Jen, Megan, Tanner, and I decided to go out because we were bored. For some reason no one else wanted to, so we just did the damn thing and went out in a small group. It was very fun though. There were not a ton of people out, but whatever that means no line at the bar. We ended up at Medievo and fuckin Turbulence with Lil John, Steve Aoki, and Laidback Luke came on and I fuckin lost my mind I threw my shoulder out fist pumping. Solid night overall.
9/21
Didn’t have class until 12 so I was all set sleep wise, wasn’t hungover, had some classes, went to the JMU office for some internet. Everyone decided to go out this night too, it got pretty rowdy. Kelsey W and I met up with the group kinda late because we, along with AJ who stayed there, went to a bar with Pepe and Jitam to play this like trivia thing they do there, they give out prizes. It was pretty cool, American trivia so I was dece at it, but me and Kels got bored so we left and went to find the group. Went to Chupiteria and zero people were inside, so we took some shots and went to find them. Went to Medievo, again, we need to stop going there, but it was pretty fun. Everyone was pretty drunk by the time we got there. We missed the BP sign up, didn’t get a shot at the 100 euro, but oh well another time. We met some British chaps, holy shit one looks exxxaaccttllyy like Chris Diachok, the picture will be up soon, it was fuckin uncanny. We all decided to leave and go somewhere we hadn’t been before and wound up at Gatsby. I can’t really figure out a way to set this up, so here it is, there was a pool inside this bar. A pool. Not like a kiddie pool or blow up pool, it was a permanent fuckin pool. Like, the walls of it were hard. And fixed. I was veerrrryyyyyy close to getting in, until someone threw out the idea that there was definitely Hepatitis swimming around in there. Hilarious. Me and Kelsey A got in trouble there because we started splashing people with the water. And Amanda got in trouble for being in the pool. Bro, if you have a pool in a fuckin bar in a fuckin college town, what the hell do you think is going to happen? People are just going to look at it? Absolutely not, I am getting in that shit and splashing everyone else. It’s basically a law that someone is getting soaked. So yeah after that we went home, got to bed at like 3:30.
9/22
Had class at 10 today, still a little tired for that guy. Our madre Carmen thinks its hilarious when we get home late and have class early. She was like soooo, muchas fiestas anoche? With a huge smile on her face. I like her she’s funny. Today in class was like a Friday at JMU. Several people in the class are clearly hungover as fuck and everyone is a little loud because we are talking about last night and the dumb shit that happened. Good times. Took a very solid 3 and a half hour siesta then went to the JMU office to do some HW. Oh also, got some new shoes today. Had to do it. The nice shoes I bought are from KUA and are old and have started to slice up my feet so I got some new boat shoes to replace them. They’re pretty sick I am pretty stoked on them. Lookin all fancy and European and shit. Thinking about getting some green jeans too. I have been contemplating green jeans for a while, and like here any kind of clothing style is accepted pretty much. Green jeans would not phase anyone at all, wouldn’t even get any second looks with them shits. It is a serious possibility at this point. We shall see. Tonight I did not go out because I need a night off, and the weekend is tomorrow sooooooooo it’s a def poss that I will be saliring the next couple of noches. Did I already write about how Spanglish is huge for me right now? Because it is, I think it is god damn hilarious. Alright time for sleep. Night kids
Peace, Love, and I’m going to ride horses on Saturday? Uh-oh
Tim
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