A Night out on the Town

Tonight, a big group of us went up to Madrid after class. It was great fun, we saw a lot of cool stuff like a mariachi band, big ugly fish in the windows of mercadoras, lots and lots of stores...it was awesome! The city is beautiful, the streets are pretty narrow for what I expected for a big city like that, and the buildings all have a really pretty older looking style. We all tried speaking all spanish the whole night, but that didn't last very long. We did better than we thought we would, but we're still bad enough that everyone within hearing range laughs at us because it's so obvious we're Americans.
We stopped at a cafe for the famous chocolate y churros, and it was very delicious! Not very nutritious, but well worth all the extra calories. :) It's almost like a chocolate bar melted down into a drink for you to dip your churros in. Actually, when you put it that way, it doesn't sound very good, but it was good! On our way home, we all got on a train that would end up in Alcala de Henares, which is the town we live in, and it is about 30 minutes from Madrid taking the train. We had been riding for about 20 minutes when someone realized we were on the wrong train! It was dark outside so we couldn't see where it was taking us. It ended up taking us in a big circle to some outskirts of town, and then back to where we started...and THEN on to Alcala de Henares. The whole thing ended up taking a good hour and 40 minutes to get to Alcala. It was actually not too bad, we all had fun hanging out and getting to know each other better. The bad news is I've got class early tomorrow, and I've stayed up too late posting this, so I'll leave it at that and get to bed! Adios!