Beach = Happiness :-)

Hey Guys,

Pretty tired today. I’m nocturnal now, I swear. Kelsey and I didn’t even go anywhere, but we still stayed up until 5:30 AM. I got up for breakfast and class. We had phonetics today, which is officially the most boring topic in the world. I am officially self-conscious to speak with native speakers now, because we had to record ourselves and analyze our pronunciation with António. Imagine a North Dakota accent speaking Spanish—that’s me. Frightening, I know. That class ran late as usual, so we went straight to lunch and then to the bookstore to finally pick up our textbooks.

Afterwards, we did some laundry (in the sink of course), and headed to the beach. I wasn’t expecting much considering we got there after 3 pm and it was only partly sunny, but we stayed for 4 hours and I actually burned a little. It will be a tan by tomorrow, though. I spent most of my time doing homework, but took a nice long nap too. The picture I tagged is of this guy selling donuts. He was running around, singing and balancing that tray on his head.

After we took the metro back, Mel went on a date, and I showered and ate some dinner. I took some fruit to the beach, so had some more for dinner with bread, tuna, peanut butter, and canned peas. Canned peas are my new obsession.

Later on that night we went to Buddha Bar downtown. It's a pretty exclusive place, you actually have to have your name on a list to get in the front door. Luckily we have a friend who we called to put us down. It was absolutely packed in there, with extremely beautiful people. We soon found out why: Tuesday is "Model Night," which explains the exclusivity. We met a lot of people, including a professional poker player from London named Sonny. The picture I put up of us three with "revivalanoche" in the corner was taken by a fashion photographer. I downloaded it off his website. Pretty crazy stuff!

When that place closed, we headed to Up & Down, a club really close to our dorm. Same connections, different place. It was a fun time, with people from all over the world. It was "New York" night, so all popular music from the States. A lot of bars here play American music, but this was especially on target. Hope everything's good back home!

Hasta luego,

Becca