Birthday! My birthday was a mix of happiness with my new found friends and sadness that I couldn't spend the day (and night) with my old friends and family. I get out of school early on Thursdays, but that didn't stop all the girls giving me homemade birthday cards (I got four from about eight girls, collaborative efforts, and zero from boys haha), and shouting Happy Birthday at me multiple times.
I got home from school and took a well deserved 4 hour nap, not only because I was tired from the week (3.5 days, soooo long!) but because I knew I would be out late that night. And I was correct. First, Steve, Alex, Julie, and Jesús and I met at Cien Montaditos, that favorite cheap food and alcohol place of mine, for drinks and dinner, at about 9:30. We migrated, getting Daniele on the way, to Tristel's Tavern (an Irish pub) to listen to Steve play an open mic night, and stayed long enough that it dissolved into anyone coming on stage, so Jesús played as well. It was really fun listening to all these players, there was a band there that was just phenomenal, and it was all really chill. By about 1:30, my fellow Auxiliaries Allyson and Violeta had joined us and we moved to a bar, the name of which I am blanking on, but that was decorated and even built like a ship. It was playing good music and also weird videos that were unrelated to the music, such as that creepy stop motion Peter and the Wolf and an equally depressing The Little Match Girl. They had fantastic Mojitos, though! By the time we left there it was about 3:30am, and Alex and I walked to Plaza de Cibeles to catch our respective night buses home (mine, I have now learned, is #22, though I took #23 that night. It got me close enough). I got to witness a belligerent drunk get kicked off the bus, and that was the end of my birthday night!
Friday I hung out with Steve and company at Grant's apartment for a bit, because it was Grant's birthday. By about 11:00, I think, a whole group of his friends came over that were a little too crazy for my mood that night, so I headed home and hung out with my TV for a while. I hung with Steve Saturday, stealing use of his wifi and introducing him to Welcome to Night Vale (which, if you, gentle reader, haven't listened to: DO IT). We also had pizza/kebabs at a restaurant in the area and watched The Chumscrubber, still not sure how that happened. Not much has happened since the big birthday night, and I am still loving school, while also wishing I could change more about the school and how the students are taught (and, you know, the world). For now, I leave you with the happy thought that after searching for a week I have finally found a basil plant and can have fresh basil again! Okay, so it's much happier for me than anyone else, but it should be enough! 
-ta luego!
PS: the pics I meant to post last week but couldn't figure out how to:
Begoña, Laura, Carlos and I playing Mexican Dominos
A big egg sculpture thing at the Reina Sofia Museum. ;)
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