BRB - going to the netherlands

so i've been a little bogged down this week...being sick...midterms coming up (actual work? why whatever do you mean?) 

funny story...on the way to the doctor's office the cab driver asked me where i was from, how long i'd been here, yada yada...he could sense my hesitation in speaking spanish so he kept on asking me questions...what i like about madrid, where i've been, etc...he was forcing me to speak spanish (and laughing about it) and say things i wasn't used to saying (stuff different from "can i have" or "can we go to")..it was really funny as i scrambled to put sentences together. 

Another funny thing....a lot of spaniards have studied elsewhere, and therefore learned their english elsewhere. This means that when they switch to english, you never know what sort of accent you're going to get. My spanish teacher speaks english in an english accent, the doctor had a texan accent. It may seem a mundane fact but it is very entertaining.

So this weekend I am going to Brussels & Amsterdam, very excited!