Merry (late) Christmas and Happy (early) New Year!

Hello everyone! I'm sorry for being such a bad blogger lately. Between the holidays, the studying, the family, the travelling... Well I haven't had much time. The sad thing is that this won't stop until 1st February, when I'll have my last and final exam. Meanwhile, I hope you can forgive me for not writing or reading as much as I would want to.

I spent my Christmas in Barcelona, as every year, because all my dad's family lives there.

Well, saying I went to Barcelona is not quite right. I went to a small (really small) town about half an hour away from Barcelona city where there is nothing to do and it is all very rural.

We always spend these days the same way:eating.

However,this year we did something different and unexpected and it was great.


On Christmas Eve, at 2am, when everyone was leaving (we were 21 at my grandparents house this year I think), my cousin had the brilliant idea of going clubbing.

Somehow, I got involved in all this and so my uncle (40), my cousin (25), my other cousin (33) and her girlfriend (37) and me(17)...We went partying together.

Surreal much?


And so we went to this really weird club in the small town next to ours.

I thought I wouldn't get in! Here in Madrid, it is quite hard to get into a club if you are not 18, and I am not 18.(unless you have a false ID, but I am a goody-two-shoes/idiot so I don't have one). But when we got there, the guy didn't even look at my face.

So my first time clubbing was with my (much older) family.

Very strange.

But the story doesn't end here. Imagine my amazement when, between all this, I see this really famous young actor in front of me in the queu!

And imagine my disappointment when I see him up front. Why does television lie to us? It is not fair.

So here I leave you with two photographs of him in television so you can judge. His name in Mario Casas and he curiously lives in the town next to my grandparents'.

Thanks for listening, as always,

Kipa

PS. Real difference

Where you really there?

Yesterday I woke up, and rubbed my eyes really hard because I couldn't believe what I was seeing through the window.

Snow


Snow everywhere. It was all white and beautiful and magical.

Let me explain myself: As I said on my last post, it never snows here in Madrid. With a little luck it snows in February or March one day. So seeing snow in December was like a gift. Finally a white christmas!


But later it rained and rained and rained...

And this morning, when I looked out from the window, the snow had disappeared completely.




It was like it was never there.

Kipa

Winter and all that..

So, it's been obvious for a few weeks, at least here, that winter has come. Like wow.

And so my nose is always cold, and so are my hands and my feet.

I have to wear so many layers which make me feel like an onion, which is not good.

The days are so short and it is always dark and it makes me think that it is later than it really is.

My exams-my very important exams- are coming up, so I am quite stressed out.

And to top it all, it never snows here, so the cold is just useless and could just leave us for good.

And it just makes me want to crawl in bed and sleep until spring comes.

But

I only have one more week left of school and then holidays! Christmas! And that is really the only thing I look forward to at this time of year.

However, I do try to be optimistic and leave those horrible things out of my mind.

Which usually works.

Christmas is just that cool.






Kipa