Hola!
I’m sorry I haven’t been updating you guys more, but I still don’t have internet in my apartment and I have been really busy this week trying time and again to get my residency card and trying to finish getting set up here before I have to leave to go to training in Madrid next week. Yesterday I woke up at 4am to go stand in line at the police station so I could get a number in order to even get a chance to turn in my paperwork. The cutoff number was 30 and I was number 27, so if I had woken up any later I would’ve been out of luck. Then after the station finally opened up at nine, I had to wait until 12:30 for anyone to even see me. I still have to go back one more time, but I decided to wait until Monday to go. I have had enough of that place for this week.
Besides my frustrations with the Spanish bureaucracy, life here in Salamanca is pretty wonderful. Last night I went out with some of the other people in the same teaching program as me to a few of the over 2,000 bars here in Salamanca. It was so much fun getting to let loose a little with my fellow teachers, and night life here in Salamanca is quite a bit different than it is back home. First of all, as soon as you walk into the plaza, there are people everywhere giving you fliers to encourage you to go to their bar, and as an extra incentive, when you take the flier they give you to the bar, you can get a free drink or shot. So last night we bar hopped, and I managed to only spend one euro the entire night. At one bar they played American music, like songs from the movie “Grease” and it was so much fun dancing with my new friends here and listening to the Spanish people around us singing along to the songs that all of us know by heart. Apparently, they do, too.
The nightlife is also a bit more…intense, let’s say. I mean, I wimped out at 2:30am last night/this morning because I had been up since 4:30am (Thursday morning), but at 2am when all the bars would usually close in the United States is when the bars and discotecas really get going here. And then! At around 5am when everyone decides to stumble out of the bars and discotecas is when the churrerías open up to serve churros con chocolate (the drunk food of choice here) to munch on on the walk home.
No worries, friends and fam, I am much too responsible to engage in this craziness, ahem. But really, this place is awesome.
More updates to come!
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