SPRING WEEKEND

my glorious weekend:

so friday after the doctor, i went home and ate the sweets etc. then I met up with carolina in retiro,

cute tights!

and we sat by the water and talked and talked and talked and also decided we were going to make tacos for dinner, and go picnic-boating in retiro on sunday. then she had to go teach a lesson to some students. I met up with Elena,

not far from retiro, in the salamanca district 

prettier in real life.i

a church. but i pretended it was the Hagia Sophia

and we talked and talked and talked:

shayan: you know what word i HATE in spain-spanish??

elena: what?

shayan: doscientos cincuenta y cinco (pronounced: dos thientos thincuenta y thinco...just TRY and say that many "th's" right after an "s"...)

elena: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! you know what work i hate in danish?

shayan: what?

elena: fuevekerie...it means fireworks...do you know how impossible it is to say when youre drunk?

shayan: HAHAHAHAHAHA!

elena: you know what words i hate in english?

shayan: what?

elena: words that sound the same...

shayan: like what?

elena: you know...like shrink...and syringe...

shayan: hahahah shrink and syringe do NOT sound the same!!

elena: YES THEY DO!

shayan: hahahahahaha! you know what words i hate in the latin american accent?

elena: what?

shayan: ferreteria. ferrocarril. guardabarrera...ETC

(the spanish rolled r really gets me, because its way longer than the farsi rolled r and i can do both, i'm just not accustomed to rolling my rs for as long as the spanish do in a word. ALSO, they have 2 different types of r's which are really hard when combined in one word. the rr is the long spanish roll. and the r is more like the farsi rolled r which almost actually sounds like a D... )

elena: you dont hate those words in spain?

shayan: yes i do, but i hate doscientos cincuenta y cinco more...

shayan and elena: hahahahahahahahahaha

and layed on the grass and laughed and took pictures

plaza Colón

standing where the monument used to be

  

sillies

 my bioinic adam's apple started glowing, sorry.

success!...licking the Colón statue...i dont know why.

can you get the sun in my "a-ok"?

HOLE IN ONE!

the controversial flag was billowing

i look like a Franco lover.

haha. limp.

, and were outside, and absorbed the sun, talked about the future, traveling, family, work... [i make it sound like we're lesbians...we're not. unfortunately! ;) ]

then we walked for 5 thousand kilometers around madrid. 

pretty.

i could have done better, but i was lazy.



"puppies...





...and babies. you should worry."-Elena warning me about myself.



and ate THESE in chueca:



can you tell what week of the month it is based off my eating habits today?!



still not as good as Ladureé's



i love that the chocolate is SHINY!



then i went to the gym and sprinted on the ellipticals for like 10 minutes, because i had been wearing my workout clothes ALL DAY and was determined to make it to the gym. my least favorite receptionist was there AND the stupid machine thing to let us in didnt work AGAIN. i dont even know why they have that thing. its a identity machine...basically...that you have to press your own secret number (1 digit) and then put your right index finger on the screen and it identifies you and IN THEORY it lets you in, but seriously more than 50% of the time it doesnt work. and i just end up jumping over it anyway. they're just trying to be so high tech, but they fail, and it creates traffic jams in the entrance. just use a clip board sign in sheet if you must.

then i finally got home took a 2 second shower. started to shave my right leg but couldnt be bothered to finish, so i decided i'd just slap on some tights for the night and call it good! got ready, made guacamole, and took it to carolinas house because we were EATING TACOS!!! they were really good (and meatless, used tofu in taco seasoning)! 

taco feast

then we skyped with her dad and family because they were all in dc and it was his birthday. it made me miss paris (one bad side of traveling=you are always missing someone or somewhere that is really far from wherever you are in that moment) then we came back to my house where my room mate was celebrating her birthday, hung out for a bit, then carolina had to go home, then i fell asleep at some point.

on SATURDAY:

woke up, worked out, met up with carolina and went to retiro park for a picnic with taco left overs ON A BOAT!
we sang this the whole time:



it was very fitting.

row

row

row

your boat!

our boat-pic-nic!

we'd been waiting to long to do this!

soaking up the sun

taco!

so excited

friendsies!

carolina rowing me!

i want to go back.

ducks! represent! UO!

then we walked to chueca for some excellent gelato!

this is what we look like when we eat gelato in chueca

i got mandarin and chocolate!

really serious. carolina wont let me put up the pic of her...

being stupid. the flash ruined the lantern's glow.

we were grumpy here because there was this couple who kept on making out really loudly and then would take pictures of themselves, and we were in the background of all their pictures, and it was getting annoying.

the floor @ Ojalá is covered in sand!

id say that balloon sums up the day very well!

then on sunday, i ended up walking to the gym, working out for 2.5 hours on accident! time flew! and then walking home again. On my way home, i discovered that Egypt's gift to spain (the temple of Debod) is RIGHT by my house, and also a very adorable park. so i layed down and sunbathed for a half hour. then i walked the rest of the way home and made some fresh squeezed orange juice with THESE:

 (one benefit of living in spain is your room mates will randomely bring home gigantic crates of amazing oranges)

3 oranges made 600 ml! thats amazing! these oranges are HUGE. and delicious, and ridiculously juicy. [have i ever mentioned that i hate eating oranges, but i'd go as far as a misdemeanor to get fresh squeezed orange juice?] well, so i made an enormous thing of orange juice and took it with me into the shower and drank it while i practically cooked myself in a boiling hot shower. it was blissful. everyone should eat/drink cold things in a hot shower/bath. try it i promise iyou wont be dissapointed. i know it sounds weird. but no one will judge you cuz you'll be alone, in the shower. and no one will know youre doing it!

THEN...
I canceled my nowruz dinner because only like 2 people were going to come even though like 5 people rsvpd that they would come...learning that facebook really is not the best way for inviting people for REAL dinner parties because facebook is not real life. uh, and then i started feeling sick...so i layed in bed and wrote this post that i think is longer than Moby Dick. and i've decided to celebrate eid i'm going to

GO NEXT DOOR TO THE NEW PERSIAN RESTAURANT THAT HAS OPENED NEXT DOOR... NEXT DOOR! N.E.X.T D.O.O.R. TO MY APARTMENT BUILDING...I'M SO SCREWED!!AND THEY ARE GOING TO BECOME SO RICH OFF ME!

i had an amazing weekend. 

hope everyone else did too!

love you all SO MUCH

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