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Wohl die wirklich coolste Vorband die ich je bei einem Konzert gesehen habe! Regen und Kälte waren plötzlich einfach vergessen!
23.08.2014 - Hot in the city
HEY LEUTE
Na, wie geht’s euch allen? Ich hoffe, gut?
Ich hatte die letzten zwei Tage ganz gute Beschäftigung. Entweder, ich tue das, was ich (produktiverweise) am lie-
Oh wait. This blog was supposed to be in English, right.
HEY GUISE
How are you doing? Well, hopefully!
I had quite some cool stuff to do during the last two days. Either way I was doing what, poductively, I love the most: writing. Or I was running around and/or watching football, what I, unproductively, love the most. Yesterday Real Madrid played the second leg of the Spanish Supercup against Atléti what means that it was a derby in the city. I really wanted to watch it outside so I put an ask in one of the Erasmus groups on Facebook if anyway wanted to go. In fact, Evangalin answered, a girl from Sweden, and we met up at Kilometre Zero in fron of Puerta del Sol at 22:00 (match at 22:30). Some guys from different bars tried to talk us into their locals but all of them were clubs, so I refused. It has never been so bad as yesterday, but the mere thought of entering such a club made my hands sweaty. I feel I shouldn’t do it.
We then found a nice restaurant called Amigos (we only had drinks) and watched the match which was very frustrating and in the end, unsatisfying for me. Atléti won 1:0 thanks to RM’s stupid defense, so I couldn’t go to Cibeles to celebrate :( So there will be no occasion to do so during my stay (if the Worldcup isn’t during December… I’m not sure). Well, Evangalin was very cool and nice, though she’s a Barca supporter :( and also a Gooner :))).
Also, yesterday my Korean flatmate asked me to do the dishes directly after I used them. I don’t really see the sense in that, especially as we have a dishwasher, but didn’t want to argue and did it. He told me during all his 3 months here they have never tried to use the dish washer. I’m curious. But he’s leaving the apartment next month anyway and Seddick, the Morrocan boy, is leaving next week already! Maybe things are different again when both the Spaniards (Joel and Mara) are back.
So today, after a short breakfast (cereals with milk) I went out to walk to the stadium of Real Madrid. I really wanted to see it and the walk took me around 50 minutes. Orientating wasn’t took difficult. I did it all with the map on my phone but could have easily used the map of my city guide, too. No difference.
The walk was very cool! I saw the shopping streets
and then later parts of the city that were so untouristical that I felt a little foreign there. I also noticed that my haircolour really makes me look exotic to residents.
Okay, to make it short, I loved the stadium tour and spend almost 2,5 hours there, took pictures en masse and had goosebumps a lot. I recommend it to anyone who really liked football. I am very very happy. Also, what was really cool, RM is really aiming at an international audience, which I like a lot. I think all signs that I had seen were both in Spanish and English and everyone I talked to was English-speaking, too.
To go back, I used the Metro. I’m looking very forward to get my Transportion Card, soon, so I don’t have to buy one-way tickets, because that’s a pain in the ass, if you don’t have the price in coins (the correct coins). The maschines at the station in front of the stadium didn’t like my bills and I was almost on my walk back home, when I found another entrance to the Metro. The maschines still didn’t take bills, but there was an actual office. I thought it was some kind of Tourism Counter, so I asked if they could exchange my 20 € bill for two 10s, but instead she printed my ticket.
What was really disturbing, was that down there, the trains go in both directions on the same track. So different from London, the direction does not have it’s own track, but it depends on if you board a train going left or a train going right. Which one is coming next isn’t predictable. I thought they would be crashing all day, when they face each other…
Okay, so I then quickly went back to Sol and had a short, late (16:45) lunch at Burger King (xD).
I’m meeting Evangalin again at 20:00 tonight to have dinner together and until then I’m watching Dortmund vs Leverkusen (what a match, wtf, Leverkusen scoring after seven seconds (!!).). :)
Love to everyone!
BTW: I GOT A TICKET FOR THE MATCH ON MONDAY WHICH IS WHEN THE LEAGUE STARTS FOR MADRID I’M SO EXCITED