crazy past weekend and even crazier one ahead :)

Dear all
Week 6 is already half over and the first interruption of my stay is only 24 hours away!!!
but let me stick to chronological order... the last post is from last Saturday morning, right? Well... during the day I didn't do much, but was invited to Roberto's house for dinner. Laura (his former flatmate) met me at the station and we went to his new flat, which he shares with a girl from Zürich (!!!), an American girl and a Brazilian guy. Unfortunately, the girls weren't there, so I still haven't met my fellow swissie, but I'm sure there will be an opportunity soon. Roberto had prepared all different specialties from his home, Parma, so we started with finger food: Parmesan cheese, the special ham they have, olives.. and then went on to a huge bowl of pasta with bolognese sauce- it was delicious and above all, the whole evening was so much fun. Laura had brought along another Dutch girl who studies with her here, and this friend came with another friend (Dutch, too) who didn't speak a word of either English or Spanish. So it was funny because I tried to understand some of what she said (Dutch is not too different from Swiss German actually) and Laura and her friend were busy translating. With the guys, we spoke a mixture of English and Spanish, so it was a very multilingual conversation! We were sitting outside on the terrasse, as it was still very warm, and of course the six of us were making quite some noise laughing, speaking - but it was a Saturday night, and we're in Spain... so we were quite surprised (as not to say shocked) when suddenly, around 11.30 pm a neighbour shouted out the window that we should shut up and stop making so much noise... Come on?? it was before midnight, don't tell me any person in their right mind goes to bed so early in Spain??? So Laura was just too funny, she looked up at that woman, waved her hand and cried "Hola! Qué tal?" (Hi, how are you?)!!! we couldn't stop laughing.... and of course we stayed outside, and a bit later on, Marcus (the brazilian guy) started mixing cocktails and distributing them in little shot glasses... which of course did not make us more quiet... ;) And we just had a great time, until, around 1.30 (which still is not THAT late...) there suddenly was a *splash* and we heard something hitting the floor right behind our table: that woman had seriously thrown an egg at us (luckily missed!)!!!! Can you believe that? Well, I guess it's just another sample of an extreme Spanish temper... ;) In any case we did not want to risk being hit by eggs or whatever vegetable she might have found next, so we went inside and then decided to go to the city center and see what there was in the clubs/pubs... And weeeelll, to make a long story short, I came home at 5.30 in the morning, realized that it was the night of the change of time to winter time and was veeery glad that I could sleep one hour more! ;)

On Sunday I first needed to sleep a lot... and then did some work for university, and then was invited to dinner again: Evelyn cooked Fajitas at her house, and it was soooo delicious! It was just a lazy evening, all girls, eating, talking, listening to music -and I went home really early because I realized that otherwise it would be impossible to be in class on Monday at 9!

And now I'm preparing my suitcase, because.......: tomorrow, I'm going back to Zurich!!!! Well, just for the weekend, but still!!! Home sweet home, I'm coming! It feels strange though, to pack a suitcase just for 3 days knowing that the destination is home.... :S For those who don't yet know: the main reason for going home this weekend is that tomorrow night, there's a concert in Zurich which has been organized by our radio station, and one of the bands playing is my boyfriend's band, so I just need to see that! And, once I'm home, I'm going to a halloween party at a friend's house on Saturday night, will be visiting half my family (and my boyfriend's) during the day Saturday, will enjoy a lazy day only with my boyfriend on Sunday, then meet another friend on Monday morning at the airport for coffee before I leave again around lunchtime! So you see, if this weekend is not more crazy than the past one, I don't know... am looking forward to it - and to telling you all about it! :)

Take care and talk to you all soon! xxx :)