So last night was fun!
There was a Karaoke Erasmus event so my friends and flatmates went along. Not to sing of course, but to have a few too many drinks and meet some new people.
It was definitely an experience. I wouldn’t say a bar kind of environment is the best way to meet people, especially seeing as it’s hard enough to hear and understand people normally, without the added difficulty of speaking a foreign language. This naturally led to most people finding those who spoke their first language and stucking with them. I wouldn’t say this was a bad thing, it was all about meeting new people, but I’m excited to start my language course where there will be others, like me (i.e., those who apparently can’t speak Spanish), from all over trying to learn Spanish.
I didn’t meet anyone new, I guess that’s almost the curse of always wanting to be on the dancefloor, but it was a bonding experience for me and the other Erasmus girls in my flat. It was the first time we’d been out together and we danced together for the majority of the night so that was really nice.
I came home early, (Disha, is that really you?), with my flatmates who had early starts this morning, as the others I was with had thought I’d left and went to another bar when I was actually just in the toilet. This wasn’t a bad thing to be fair. I’ve run out of data on my phone so would have been walking aimlessly around Madrid, alone, trying to find my way home.

Today has been very slow. My mood is super low but we’re going to go out for pizza for dinner so I’m sure that’ll perk me up. Tomorrow, I need to email Leeds about my module changes, do laundry, cleaning and maybe arrange myself a bit better for the week ahead in uni.

// Anoche yo me pasó bien!
Hubo una noche de Karaoke para los estudiantes Erasmus, entonces fui con mis amigas y mis compañeras de piso.
Diría que, el bar no es el mejor lugar para conocer a nueva gente debido a que es muy difícil oír lo que dicen las personas normalmente sin la dificultad extra de un idioma extranjero. La mayoría de personas encontró las que hablaron el mismo idioma. Por eso, yo estoy entusiasmado empezar mi curso de lenguaje: porque habrá las personas, como yo, de una variedad de países, intentando aprender Español.
Yo no conocí a alguien nuevo, porque yo prefiero bailar en vez de hablar. Vine a casa temprano con mis amigas de piso que tenían que ir a uni temprano.

Hoy ha sido muy lento. Mi humor no esta bien hoy, pero comeremos pizza para la cena entonces esto debería levanter mis ánimos. Mañana, tengo que mandar a Leeds mis cursos nuevos, hacer las tareas domésticas y prepararme para la semana siguiente.