Me duele el cerebro*

Hello world,

Not many news from the land of España. I have been seeing more parts of the city and I discovered that Retiro park is amazing. I spent half of my day there sitting on a grass with my book (Spanish grammar of course), enjoying the sun. The language front has not changed - I can put sentences together and speak, but to understand other people is more difficult. Funny, when I was learning English it was completely other way around. Maybe it's because so many Spanish people don't open their mouth when they speak? But hey, it could have been worse, it's good I'm not learning polish. I would be completely f*cuked then.

I also had the famous bocadillo de calamares at Plaza Mayor, and I tried croquetas de jamon, amazing! Why they don't do the same food in Poland or anywhere else? Also I met some new people, just friends of friends, very nice. It's really important for me to know more people here, cause I am still a total stranger in this city.

I've seen a house where Cervantes used to live and I imagined for a while him leaving the main door and going through the streets, I wonder where did he get his inspirations from? If I ever find that my creativity and ideas have abandoned me, I will go back to this house and listen carefully. But still a whole bunch of attractions await - Museo del Prado, Reina Sofia and many more I haven't seen since last time in Madrid (1,5 year ago).

I started watching movies with Spanish dubbing, I know it's horrible, but I need to learn things fast and listening to movies is one way to do it. I've seen 300, The Dark Night, still in line to be watched - Che: Part One, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, a bit random collection, I know. I have a classic of polish cinema piece as well - the mysterious movie called Saragossa Manuscript, 3 hour long epic by Wojciech Jerzy Has. The way it's been filmed it's great, amazing compositions etc, but the main problem I have with it is that I fell asleep every time I watch 15 minutes. This way I have been watching it for the last 4 days and I'm nearly in the middle of the film. But it doesn't matter I can't keep my eyes open, it's still a masterpiece. Citizen Kane was. And I only felt asleep on it 3 times.

To conclude I couldn't resist to mention about the thing in every spanish newspaper: la crisis. I can tell you one thing: my flatmate went to see the football last Saturday, the Real Madrid stadium was totally full. 80.000 people apparently had money to buy the tickets, and the cheapest ones went for 25 Euros. So where's the crisis ?

Till next time,



* My brain hurts.