I love going on dates

Yeah, so I haven't blogged in awhile. I've had a really lazy week...I mean, I've just been so tired. I think it's the weather, it's just been so gloomy out. So where have I left off. Ah yes, Wednesday.
Woke up to construction banging again. Maybe that's why I'm so tired, my sleep is consistently disrupted by perpetual banging every morning. I don't know what they're doing upstairs but it's getting on my last nerve. Anyways, I made toast and walked to the center around noon. I didn't have class until 2 so I had a lot of time to hang out there. This was actually a good thing because appointments were up for class registration, so I needed to backback some classes and email professors. I can't believe that this is my second-to-last time picking classes. So weird. And sad. Yes, I enjoy picking class. Yes, I'm a nerd. Then I had Lope 2-3 which was boring. Then on my hour break I did more class searching, then had Teatro 4-5. My 6-7 Historia del arte had been cancelled so I had the evening to myself. You see, Stacey, Katie, and I had made plans to meet up when their last class got out at 8 and then walk to Plaza de Armas to see Volver. So I went to the center and did more class searching, I also looked up fun bars and clubs in Sevilla because I'm planning Stacey and Jessica's joint 20th bday party which is this coming Tuesday (yep, they have the same bday!). I found this awesome club called Isbiliyya which is a gay bar that plays 80's music and has drag shows every Thursday and Sunday. Maybe I'd move their bday party to Thursday because this was just too damn perfect. AND it's really closeby. I decided to stop by on our way to Plaza de Armas since it's on the same street. The center then closed at 7 so I went to the Starbucks by the University to do some reading before meeting up with the girls. I read the rest of Act II of "Barranca Abajo" for Teatro and then read Harry Potter. It's at the climax already, I'm almost finished with the book. It's soooooo good, omg!!! Hehe, anyways. At 8:15 I met the girls and we walked the 15 min walk down Paseo de Colon to Plaza de Armas. On the way I stopped in Isbiliyya which looks awesome. I asked the bartender about the espectaculos (shows) and he said that they do have the drag shows, and that they perform Thur., Sun., AND Tuesday! How perfect! They start at 1am. Sooooo perfect. It's a deal. We got to Plaza de Armas around 8:30ish. We ate dinner at the Cien Montaditos there. I decided to try some new sandwiches this time: I got a pate with fresh cheese, a tomato with fresh cheese, spanish tortilla with some sort of spread (I was being very adventurous), and my favorite (I couldn't give it up) smoked tuna with grilled red pepper. I also got a side order of aceitunas (olives). SOOO good! I freaking love Cien Montaditos. After the movie the girls were craving something sweet so we went downstairs to find a candy store. I tell ya, Plaza de Armas is awesome. It's a little indoor mall that's an old converted train station. Way cool. They got some gummy candies. Then we went to the grocery store there where they got cheap soft drinks. Then we went to the movie which started at 10. Volver, again, is the new Almodovar movie starring Penelope Cruz. It was really good, very introspective and required some thinking especially with the language barrier. The visuals were really awesome. Oh, there were also a lot of Americans at the movie, haha. The word "volver" means "return" so the entire film was about the people that we love most going away and then returning...although we may not think that we want them to return, when they return we realize how much we needed them. Penelope Cruz plays a lowerclass mom who is involved with some crazy love triangle thing with parents and whatnot. Hard to explain, and to explain it in detail would give away too much of the movie. For ages her family had thought that her mom was dead, but suddenly she shows up again in their lives. Once she comes back Penelope's character's life suddenly improves although she hasn't encountered her mother (her mother comes and lives with Penelope's sister secretly). It gets a bit complicated. If you want to know more about it just ask me. Write me a comment or something. It's really good, though, Almodovar wrote it as well as directed it. It's also centered around women, which is always a plus. Love ya, Almodovar. So I really enjoyed the movie. Afterwards I was tired! Why am I always so tired? We had planned on going out afterwards, perhaps meeting up with Jessica, but we were dead. So we walked back to los Remedios and grabbed a drink at Madigan's. It was pretty empty except for some loud, drunk, obnoxious European people about our age (Norwegian? Swedish? Finnish? We're not sure.) who were being extremely rowdey. The bartenders that night were really nice and attentive to us which was good since oftentimes the bartenders kind of suck there. We then called it a night around 1:30 and walked home. I was so tired! That's why I didn't blog for that night. I just passed out. But I had such a fun date! Dinner and a movie Spanish style.