Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Sunday - capoeira show, Caceres again, and the Irish pub again :)



The Sunday morning was my last time to wake up at the Polish flat in Aluche. And it was an early waking, because we were supposed to go see a capoeira show, as agreed at Roberta’s birthday at Friday evening. With my hand-baggage sized rolling suitcase, I strolled through the green park-strip that separates the Polish flat from Emilie’s home, and arrived even in time to have a chat before going to find the sports hall of the capoeiristas. The show was definitely cool! And made even more special by the fact that one fellow exchange student was also performing there – Pauline from France.





I had some more plans for that day, but they were not meant to come true.. For example, the Retiro park visit (the huge park in the center of Madrid) was cancelled due to very suspicious weather, and the visit of the Flamenco dancing was cancelled due to lazyness... Instead, I visited Calle Caceres and Sarah again, and spent some more time, chilling, chatting, juggling, listening to music, and we even had a video-chat with Ariana who is now again living in the US... The weather, as I wrote, was not the best to sunbathe in the park, but it served well for having a slow and memory-packed walk around the familiar Delicias block. We even got some healthy (ok, cheating myself) kebab, and like last night with the chicken, Sarah chose not to eat... I continued my walk towards the little streets and Sol again, she remained at home due to an exam the next day.
Somehow, I ended up in the same pub as last night – O’Connell. The huge screens were unblocked this time – not many people at the bar yet - because I arrived rather early. And lack of noise and customers allowed me to have a chat with the girl at the bar. Besides looking good, she also told me many interesting things – for example that she is actually from Canada, knows almost nothing about Spanish, and has lived in Madrid only for 3 weeks, after her 3 months of backpacking around Europe. She is not my favourite Canadian, anyway – because she didn’t visit Estonia in her backpacking trip.. :)

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