I was so committed to not repeating the 18 hour hibernation of last Saturday that I reluctantly set an alarm for this morning. It turned out not to matter - I slept right through it, if it even went off. 13 hours is better than 18....but seriously?
I set out to see the Reina Sofia Museum of Modern Art - boring. Definitely not my style, and the audio guide was no more interesting. The best part was walking into one exhibit to find 5 parakeets squawking at me - modern art? I wandered around - fancy description of getting lost - for half an hour just to make it worth the free student entrance, and then hit the streets again.
I headed next to the Thyssen private museum, which was more my speed. There was amazingly famous artwork from all regions and parts of history. I am not one for art - but I thought it was super cool. The Prado has still won my heart, but I'll give this museum the silver medal.
After that, I was exhausted. It was too early to go home for dinner - because at 6pm there's still 4 hours to go. I decided to go to the movie theater, where I watched Monsters University in Spanish! I kind of got in trouble because I didn't realized that they use an assigned seating system, but once we worked that out I was able to relax in the AC and test out my language skills. Lucky for me, kids movies are pretty straightforward, so although my listening comprehension was not that great, I still understood what was going on.
Now I'm back - and exhausted! I need to plan tomorrow's adventure...probably a trip to the Sunday markets....and then my class is having dinner at someone's house in the late afternoon.
1 more week in Spain!
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