Oh No!!!

Well, my worst nightmare came true. I came home sunday night from Alexandra's house and turned on my computer to find that our internet connection has been disabled. The way things work in Spain is that the telephone company will come when they have time, but there are so few people who know how to repair wireless routers and this is a huge city, so there is not much hope of them coming soon. This means that I won't be able to write as much but I will do my best. I hope it gets fixed soon!!!

Jamon Iberico

Here is a picture of some pig legs for sale at the local supermarket in Quintanar. Actually this is very common in spain, and these particular legs are nicer than the ones I have seen in Madrid. Usually they still have the skin on them on one side and are kind of greenish white...ewww. Apparently Iberian Ham (jamos iberico) is famous, so they think they have to display it everywhere...or something. I´m not quite sure what you would do with one of those once you have bought it...but like I said, this is very common here and people think nothing of it when they walk past the meat markets that have legs hanging in the window.

Video

Here is a video that I took at Alexandra´s house. Her brother had this little singing dog that he got from the lady that their mom cleans house for. Its so wierd, I just had to post it. :)

More Pictures

Here are the rest of the pictures from this weekend. They are net very exciting so sorry about that. I hope to go somewhere exciting soon but I'm waiting for my friends to catch up to my excitement, instead of sleeping and being on their computers all the time. I know they want to go places too, they just talk and don't act. Anyways... :) These are pictures from Segovia (the mountains ones) and a mall just outside of Madrid. If you are thinking that Europe doesn't have malls, you are definately wrong. They have malls for sure and they are huge! This one that I went to had a skiing hill, a go cart track, two levels of food courts, and lots and lots of stores.

This weekend

Here is a picture of me and Alexandra at the Nevadacerrada skiing area. I hesitate to say resort because its not. The story behind this is that her friends were planning a ski trip to what she thought was the Seirra Nevadas in Granada, but what they really meant was Nevadacerrada, which is just outside Madrid near Seovia. We were both really desappointed that we weren't going to Granada to ski and when we got to Nevadcerrada, the others didn't want to ski because there were too many people. They then proceeded to take us to a mall with an indoor skiing hill that cost 60 dollars for 4 hours. I told Alexandra that I didn't want to pay that much for fake skiing and she agreed, so we went shopping at the mall while the others skiied. So basically my weekend was spent in a shopping mall and in a car; a little disappointing compared to what I was looking forward to. We still had fun shopping though, and it was nice to spend sunday with her family and learn some more about cooking here :)

My Address

For those of you who have been asking, here is my address:
c/San Bernardino 8
2nd Izquierda
28015 Madrid, Spain

This goes to my landlord and he delivers the mail to everyone in the builiding. Its easier that way and safer.

Downtown Madrid

Today we walked home from school indstead of taking the subway, and so we got to see a lot more of the city. I took some pictures of buildings that are normal for downtown Madrid. It is unusually cold here right now so it was a very brisk walk, but it was really cool to see all the buildings and people around downtown. It took us about 30 minutes to walk back to the apartment, which isn't that bad. I think it is better to walk and save my money indstead of buying a metro ticket. The view is beautiful, so why not? Oh, and speaking of the city: Steve, just so you know, not all of the sirens in Madrid sound like the ones in the Bourne movies. Most of them are normal like what we have in the states. Although I have heard the "european" ones a couple of times. :) Thought you might like to know that.