El Segundo Dia

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Refreshed I woke up from my non air-conditioned house.. they don't believe in it or something.. I swear to God.. and had a few pieces of toast with Spanish coffee for breakfast. I am planing on trying everything here and coffee is something I dont drink in the US. So I had a relatively big glass with milk and almost 3 spoons of sugar.. It was surprizingly good.. not great but alright. I dont know exactly what it was.. the coffee or the sleep, but I was wired for the rest of the day.. and here I am at 5 am after going out writing this blog so something must have done it. I got to school using the metro again and went to find a computer to research classes and sign up for my email account there... I'll finish this later.. i have to join my tour group which is walking by..
Well apparently I set the watch that I found in my luggage yesterday 1 hour behind Madrid time.. and so I missed my meeting this morning with the BC in Madrid coordinator and was late for the campus tour that very luckily ran into me.. I was in 1 of at least 40 "aulas informaticas" or computer labs. The campus tour was nice and it helped me become a little more familiar with the campus and learn about a few discounts and other options that they offered there. They even took us to this hole in the wall bocaderilla (sandwich place)where they sometimes will even name sandwiches after the customers if they order them enough. I already had a sandwich which my Senora made for me earlier so I decided to save some money. After the tour we went to a series of presentations about the arts, theater, and other activities they offered on campus for the students. The last of the main set of presentations before the individual course presentations which followed was a presentation on the group "ESN." The group organizes many events largely for international students and center their events around cultural experiences, but two of their larger focuses are on partying and getting to meet people from around the world. It seemed like a cool group and they offer a few trips and events that seemed very interesting but we were wondering whether or not we will have time to go out on our own during the nights to meet up with friends and stuff. Therefore... being an endlessly curious person who always ask questions, after their presentation I caught up with them outside of the building and asked the question, which they more than answered. It began a conversation with the 3 of them( Andrea, Piero, y Alexia) which began in the main plaza and after 15 minutes there they asked me if I wanted to help them bring a couple boxes ligeros(light-they taught me that word) to their ESN office and because I was loving talking to them and I could understand almost everything that they were saying and because they seemed like very fun and nice students who were my age, I agreed and helped them bring them over. At their office we hung out and relaxed and we shared a small bottle of reallly good Spanish wine. I think it was one of the best I've had and I'm not really a red wine drinker. This Saturday I'll be meeting up with them and a few other Int'l students and a couple BC students who I convinced to come with me rather easily. We're meeting at "SOL", the main meeting place in the city near all the bars and clubs at 5pm for a city tour and then to go clubbing afterward. I'm very excited to do this to meet a bunch of new people and take the non-american route which is to generally stick with other americans..
I then met up with Sean and Michi and took the metro back home.. one problem sometime while I was on the metro, I got ROBBED.. yes Robbed. Pick pocketed to be more specific. My second day and I lost my wallet which I took with me that day just to buy a sim card earlier that morning for my vodafone.. what luck. I only realized it after I got back home after a really nice and long conversation with my senora about my day and everything that had happend and a nice long explanation of the streets and destinations in the city. All of which I understood. It's crazy how much of a differnce 1 day can make to your understanding. It's incredible. Even my speech has improved 2 fold easily. After we figured out that I had been robbed I had my dad cancel my credit and debit cards which I had in there and tomorrow I will report to the madrid police the IDs that I lost as well so that there cannot be any identity theft associated. Eugenia was very very helpful throughout this process and nothing was charged to my accounts. the only thing that I lost was the about 140 euros that were in there (that's a lot of money but then again it is just money as my senora told me, I'm lucky to still have my health) And I cant complain too much because so far I think my first 2 days went extremely well, especially the second because I could concentrate which your really need because sooo much is going on that you really need to be able to. Also, earlier today I met 3 girls that also were from schools in Boston, one who unfortunately got wait listed at BC and no one likes that..
After figuring out all the stuff with my stolen wallet, I had a tremendous dinner that my senora prepared for me. A noodle soup with homemade sushi and some Spanish Tortilla. It was great and there was a lot of it so it really filled me up. Almost immediately afterward I joined 14 other BC students at SOL and went clubbing trying to get as many free or cheap drinks as possible.. I hardly paid anything partly because I lost my wallet and people felt bad for me.. I can dig that haha. I don't think that makes me a bad person.. I hope. We went to Dreams where there was free drinks for the ladies and it was fairly cheap for the guys and spent time there moreso talking before we left after an hour or so and then went to the big club Joy which is a huge discoteca that looked like an old smaller opera house with gold platted ceilings and a big projector which had a music video playing all the time with lots of lights and very good music. We had a great time.. and toonnns of fotos to prove it. Some of which are likely to be a bit embarrassing.. haha And that is it for today. And it's 5:08 now and I need to sleep. Good night all. Oh and I almost forgot.. when I got back to my apartment.. I actually entered the apartment complex just a little down the street which looks almost identical to mine ... and for some reason my keys worked...!? They didnt work well but after a little I got them to work I thought it may have been because I was a litttle tipsy but then I tried to get into "my" homestay apartment.. and it wasn't working and small things looked strange to me.. but I ignored them it was late and I was tipsy. after a while i tried going up one more flight.. maybe i had the wrong floor.. again to no avail.. went down stairs to try again and then they woke up and were speaking strongly at me from behind the door but I couldnt understand them I said I was sorry and that I had the wrong place.. I couldn't figure it out.. I thought it had to be the place.. I mean I got in and all.. after a long 1 hour journey back to my place from the clubs. eventually I thought that maybe this was the wrong place so I after a while got out of the place using the wrong keys and then went just up the street maybe 20 yards and there was my apartment... I thought I had finally made it back.. from the club but I had to try to enter the wrong apartment because that was the first time I entered the street from the other direction.. just my luck that night. good night en serio.