Chocolate.

Well, I got a late start today.  After my first full week of classes, my friends and I went to a club called Joy last night.  This was our second time there.  It is a lot of fun and dancing.  Unfortunately for us, time slipped away from us and we missed the last bus home.  We are much to careful with our money to pay for a taxi, so we waited until the metro opened in the morning.  By the time we got home, Gabby and Roberto had already left for work!  Fortunately, I have no classes on Friday, so I slept in nice and late.  Today, Anna, Liz, and I went to Sol for some shopping and food.  First, we stopped at McDonald's.  (Sorry, again, not very Spanish of us, but it was a good reminder of home.)  The happy meal even comes with ice cream here!  Very tasty.  Then we walked around Sol and looked at all of the clothes.  I bought a fabulous new pair of brown boots that I am currently wearing because I am obsessed with them and can't take them off.  During the months of January and August, the Spanish have "rebajas."  Basically, everything is on sale and all of the stores have great deals.  We all bought a new pair of shoes today!  Very successful.  After shopping, we treated ourselves to some churros con chocolate at a very famous chocolate place called Chocolateria San Gines.  It was the very best that I have had so far and the shop was so crowded that we had to stand.  It was well worth the wait.  The chocolate was so rich.  I was glad that me and Anna decided to split ours.

Museum of Ham!  The Spanish love their ham.

Tomorrow, we are going on a trip to Salamanca.  Gabby told us that it was very cold there, so I will be sure to bundle up!  There is a very old university there that I can't wait to see.  They have one of the oldest classrooms and you can still see the graffiti of students from the 13th century.  I will post pictures from our day trip tomorrow.  Tonight, we are going to stay in and watch a movie because we are leaving for our trip at 8:30.  Hopefully we can figure out how to work the DVD player!