Spain is....odd. For instance, I am currently in Barcelona, and while walking through a plaza, I noticed at least 60 punk/goth kids congregated around a tall statue. It was a see of black leather and alternating pink-white-black hair. And supports of the local teams are crazy. While I was in Madrid, the Spanish football finals occurred, and Real Madrid was deemed the victor. The partying was unreal. 4 hours from 11:00 pm - 3:00 am was all about firecrackers, car horns, and yelling yuppies. But then it kinda got outta hand and the cops came. Anyway that's not so weird, being it football, and everyone but the US is crazy about it, these guys are also huge whackos about basketball. I went to a finals game the other day (really cheap tickets) and these guys are just wild. It is so.....odd.
More oddities1. Condom vending machines in the middle of the street
2. You can buy a beer at McDonalds (A full glass of beer!)
3. One needs to go to McDonalds to avoid malnutrition, as the traditional Spanish meal consists of either veal, lamb, hake, salmon, codfish, or little samples of a billion different types of ham. After 5 days we were sick of it.
4. Its just.....odd.
But that doesn't mean that its not cool. Spain is sweet. Flamingo dances, bullfights, awesome churches, sports on the TV that you could never see in the states (The Sharks beat the Blues in rugby!!), a completely different language in the west (seriously its like Spanish but full of a bunch of oddly shaped x's). Its pretty sweet.
And Ranholn, since TOPH is probably anime, I don't like it.
Alas, while this is fun, I will leave for camp on Sunday. Its one of those camps where you live in cabins, no electronics, lots of sports on teams. Its actually fun. Just a heads-up.
