Me duele la pie, pero todo esta bien (My foot hurts, but all is good)

Hola gente. Sorry that I haven't blogged in a while. I haven't really even been that busy, just a little tired. I don't sleep well here. I think it is the combination of the bad bed and the light that shines in through the window all night from I can't figure out where. Anyway, I am enjoying Salamanca, although it is not my favorite housing situation (my romates are a little boring, but we got a new one and she seems very nice so I have hope).
Tuesday of last week the school organized a walk around the town. I wasn't sure I wanted to go, but I got my butt up and out of the house and decided to go see if I might meet someone who I could hang out with. I'm glad I went. I met a girl from Canada named Ashley. The tour was nice, as well, and I learned some things about Salamance, especially the University here.
After the tour, Ashley and I went and ate some churros! Me encanta! Son muy buena!!!! You should definitely try them sometime in your life because they are fabulous. However, this place was not the best place to get them, so we are going to go and try them at the place that my teacher recommended sometime this week.
Wednesday I had school and then I took a walk around the town. That night I met Ashley on the Plaza Mayor and we went to a restaurant named Erasmus. It was very cute and reminded me of an Applebees or Friday's at home. The tables were cool, each one was filled with different things, like beer bottle caps or bingo balls. WE each had a raspberry beer and shared some things that were called tortilla something, but they were kind of like a potato pancake cause they were deep fried and they had onions and shrimp in them. Then I got a hot chocolate with chili pepper. It was fantastic because the chocolate is like a melted chocolate bar with not too much sugar (it comes with a packet of sugar, so the Spaniards- who must all have rotten teeth- can make it more to their liking) and just the right amount of spice from the chili pepper. On top floated some lemon zest and somewhere in the bottom there was a clove I accidentally ate.
After all this food International night started. Twice a week at this restaurant they run a night were people can come and practice Spanish with locals and they can practice English with us (intercambios). It was fun, although we ended up speaking more English than Spanish and I was a little disappointed. There were also games and things, but we left too early to play them. It was going on midnight when we left and we had class in the morning.
Thursday I did not do much, though I did take a nice walk around the city. It is absolutely beautiful here. And it's been suny which has made all the buildings shine this orangy-pink color because they are all made out of the same stone, making it look almost like a Hollywood set or something. It is one of the most uniform places I have seen- especially near the University, one of the oldest in Europe.
Friday I was supposed to go out with some people from my class. At around 10 I went over their apartment and it ended up that one of the girl's was sick and they were going to go out on Saturday instead. I still stayed and talked to the girls in the apartment until almost 1 and then came home to get some sleep.
On Saturday I got up a little later and then hung around the house for a while. At around 2 in the afternoon I went for a long walk around Salamanca. I went down to the Roman Bridge, which was built lots of years ago by, you guessed it, the Romans. It was pretty cool to walk across something that old. On the other side there was not much, but I entertained myself y taking pictures of these chopped down trees in front of a church that some artistic young people had painted all different ways in a totem pole like fashion. One was a pencil and there was one with nails all stuck in the side and yet another with a funny face ont eh top. They were nice to look at and after I crossed back to the otherside of the river.
I saw a building that was all stained glass and I wondered aobut it and what it was, but I let that go and walked up the ramp back into the University area. I came to the museum that the teacher who took us on the city walk had recommended and decided to go. It just happened to be the stained glass building that I had been wondering about. It was such a pretty little museum that it almost overshadowed the collections that they had there. In the center of the ceiling of the main exhibit room there was a large stained glass window and there was stained glass everywhere. The collections were cool too. Itw as the art noveau of the late 1800s- early 1900s. There were porcelain figures and beautiful glass jars. It was all so pretty it made me kind of sad that it was sitting in a museum for people to look at and not being valued by someone in their home as a great treasure, but I think museums like that always make me a little sad because the objects feel so unloved. On the upper level was a large room of dolls. Now, if you have never been alone in a room full of dolls stuck behind glass, I wouldn't recommend you try it. All the movies and tales aobut dolls coming alive and doing terrible things to people run through your mind, and it is hard to find anything beautiful about their creepy vacant stares. Especially when the museum insists on playing music from the 1920's where that is that eerie scratching noise of the record player and the voices are a bit tinny. I was a little freaked out to say the least, but I had a nice time.
Saturday night I went back to the girls' apartment and this time we went out. We started at the Chuppiteria (chuppito meaning shot, and teria is the ending to all specialist shops- peluqueleria (barber shop), panederia (bread), etc.). It was sooooo crowded. WE moved on to another club, but it was crowded as well, so crowded you could not move let alone dance, so we headed out and went to a shop to get bocadillos (sandwiches). Mmmmmm they were yummy (can you sense my theme for Salamanca is definitely food- everything is so yummy). WE tried one more club, but it was very crowded as well- although the music was nice cause it was spanish. AFter that we headed home. I got to my apartment at like 5 and somehow in the dark squished my contact in the case top. So now I have to wear my glasses everywehere.
Yesterday I was going to take it easy because my foot has been hurting me a lot. I decided it needed a day without walking, but we got a new roomate and I decided I at least wanted to see outside so I showed her the grocery store (which no one understand here, it is always market or supermarket). Anyway, it was a nice time.
Today was class and a real trip to the supermarket (it is closed on Sunday). That's all the excitement for now. Hopefully I will feel the inspiration to write sooner this week.

Besos,
Jenn