Concierto y futbol!

Ahh! Sorry it's been so long! I've been busy with classes and applying for internships for the summer. Anyways, last week I went to play some pickup soccer at ISA and found out that no other people from the program had showed up. That left me alone with a group of Spanish boys that only spoke in rapid spanish. It was still really fun! I played on their team against a group of other boys in a small sided (8 v 8) game. It felt so good to be playing again and their level of play was really high. I think it's great that there's so much more pickup soccer here, and at a much higher level than home. Futbol is truly a huge part of the culture here. I could play with them but had a little difficulty with my running sneakers on turf after it had been raining earlier that day. They told me that it was really uncommon for girls to play futbol in Spain and sure enough a group of girls came to cheer some of the boys on. I was the only girl on the field! The boys on the other team had no idea what to do with me. They were really physical with each other but were afraid to touch me! The guys on my team were really nice. A couple of them walked me home after and we had a really interesting conversation about our different cultures. One of the guys asked me if parties in America were like the ones in the movies, like American Pie! A few of them knew little bits of english and would throw them in (in thick spanish accents) whenever they could. Like one guy said to meet back there next week at 6 in spanish and another said "six o'clock". They were really sweet and I'd love to get to know them better. They'll especially be able to help me with my spanish. Now I just need some legit soccer shoes and to learn soccer vocab and I'll be set! Unfortunately this week it's been really rainy so I didn't get to play. :(
I also went to a free concert on Sunday! 35,000 people attended!!! It was so crowded but the atmosphere was awesome. It took place between all the Center of Artes y Ciencias buildings. It was so fun! The main band that played was the Arctic Monkeys, a British band. I was familiar with their music before, but didn't really know the words to any of their songs. Their performance was great and three other bands that played before them were pretty good too. We got pretty close to the stage, enough that we were somewhat in the mosh pit which was preeetty interesting. In the end, confetti sprayed up and out over the whole crowd! It was amazing! Our shoes and pants were really disgusting after though because it was raining and dirty in the crowd. For Valentine's day the next day, me and my chicas went to get chocolate con churros! Que rico!
Today, we helped our Senora with some english! She had a friend calling from Paris who was trying to figure out what an english hotel offered. Senora spelled out the word to us (with spanish letters) and we translated it into spanish! That was actually really exciting for me...for once my english was useful! And I was able to translate my native language into something that made sense to her! The end for now...but my weekend is just beginning!