younglife!

the past two days have been beautiful in spain and its cooled off a little bit which has been wonderful. so yesterday and today i slept in a little bit, then waited for the roomies to get up so we could go play! we went to el parque de retiro yesterday and walked around and saw the rose garden. oh my beautiful, thats all ive got to say. the parks here are incredible because, lets be honest, its the only grassy areas all over the city. back yards are no existent, nor do they like you to sit in the grass that you do fund, unless its in one of the parques. but while the rest of the group stayed at the park, i snuck away (not really snuck, but just left) to go on my own adventure.

younglife is such a small world. really it is. so i worked when i worked at malibu club, i met fun friends and its always fun to have a reunion! so, got on facebook, and come to find out my friend david was in madrid, and he told me that younglife had club saturday night. so what did i do? i went to a spanish younglife club in madrid! SUPER COOL. it was a small club, thats for sure, but it was so awesome just to see that its here, the lord is so present in it, and yep. i was really happy. fun fact: they sang both english and spanish songs. firework by katy perry or course was on the list. another one of davids friends came, because he is a wyldlife leader in birmingham. after that i met up with their friends to watch the barcelona vs manchester united futbol game and just catch up on life. come to find out a bunch of guys play football for samford (who is in appalachians conference for sports) and they were talking about how awesome it is to play in boone. then there was some trash talk about how they expect to win next year. no worries: i put them in their places. but it was a fun adventure to meet other estudiantes americanos.

today, me and 2 girls from another university, in indiana, went back to retiro and walked around a bit then ohhh my. there was a lake (just a baby one) where you can rent boats and go paddle on around. most hilarious adventure. got my arm work out for the month. and might have crashed into a few other boats. and since i forgot to bring nigel, we WILL be doing it again. i love paddle boats in madrid.

new goal to add to the list: i want to become a "regular" at a place, yes, here in madrid. this will be a tad bit difficult. also, i believe going to a bullfight should be added. so many fun things in spain. love it hereeee!

thats all for now folks :)