Dukes going bowling! && other wonderful things

Yeah, you heard me.  Duke is playing in a bowl game this year :) I am so proud of my boys and wish more than anything that I was at Duke to cheer them on.  Shout out to Anthony Boone!  I'm proud of you buddy for all of your hard work.  It's all paying off now!  How exciting!
Also, basketball season has started and that's just fantastic.  Can't believe I'm missing half of the games, but something's gotta give.  I'll be watching them all from here of course, probably in Dubliners with the entire Duke in Madrid program.  Then when I return, diving head first into black tenting.  Yeaaaah buddy.  This year is gonna be off the chain.

So enough missing Duke, since I do that plently enough on a daily basis.  Life in Madrid is going grand as well.  I could never actually live in this city unless I had wifi 24/7 and they imported American coffee.  Then I would consider it.  Oh, and if my family came all da time.  Which in fact, they may very possibly be coming for Christmas!!! Best news ever.  I might have convinced them to come for a week to spend Christmas with me and travel some.  My original plans were to stay and travel Europe for 3 weeks, just hooking up with whoever was staying around for that long.  My flight home isn't until January 3rd, which is longggg after anyone else in the program.  I'd purchase a Eurorail Pass and conquer Europe in 3 weeks, which sounds like a fantastic plan as is.  However, a solo Christmas freaks me out.  So now my parents might come and we would do Christmas in Paris :)  I would pretend to be princess Anastasia for the night of course and we would have a lovely Christmas.  So, crossing my fingers, wishing on eyelashes and birthday candles that this works out.

This is my wishing face

Also, my boy Charlie convinced me that going to Mumford and Sons in London for a-price-I-can't-say-on-here-because-it-is-a-little-absurd would be a good idea.  And he is 100% correct.  A my rule is I can't say no.  So I will be in London on December 18th and in Ireland the days before that.  So exciting!!!

Manana we are going to Toledo with the program.  I'm kind of excited, but honestly I want a day to sleep in.  And that just isn't happening lately.  We just finished midterm week here.  It went better than at Duke but still not fun.  It's your standard Duke-ish type midterm and they all suck so the focus of this blog is NOT on midterm week.  We shall skip over all of that.

Amanda and Knierim and other people from Duke came to Madrid this week from Monday to Thursday.  We are all the worst though and never even saw each other.  The phone situation did not work out and I could not contact them at all.  I also was going to class during the day and trying to go out with them at night all while studying for midterms.  Last night was the worst trying to find them.  One of the biggest problems in Spain is communication.  It's old school without wifi on the iphones everywhere you go.  You actually have to call people or sometimes use carrier pigeons.  This is not something I think I will ever get used to.  The point of this story is my friends came to visit and I never saw them.  Haha oopsyy.This weekend my other friends are coming so wish me luck with that.  If I don't see Brittany Cohen I will cry.  But I am pretty convinced we will see each other.  She is visiting from Barcelona and then I go to Barcelona in the middle of November.  In a week I leave for Copenhagen!  Sensation white, what's good?!

I just put on the Sound of Music to inspire me to want to go to Vienna one day and to sing songs about raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens and all of my favorite things!!  I'm gonna go rock out with Alexandra now and sing without waking Carmen up.  Adios muchachos!

My second favorite place in the world, next to Duke :) My friend on the basketball team at CEU invited me to go with her to her house in San Sebastian anytime.