A "Real" Spanish Night Out

Last Friday night was what I'm deeming my first "real Spanish night out." Around 8:30pm I hopped on a train to Madrid to meet up with my friend Graham, who lives there and teaches history at a bilingual school. By the time I arrived at his apartment, it was already packed with people from all over the world. I met a Germans, Italians, Mexicans, Spaniards (of course,) and a whole group of people from France! The French people were the best since a lot of them weren't that much better at Spanish then I was, so they spoke slowly and had a vocabulary I understood, for the most part. We ate dinner there as a huge group-- risotto and some sort of salad with apples in it-- then hung around the apartment until about half past midnight. In Spain, when they go out for the night, they mean the entire night. We didn't get back to Graham's until around 5am.

I expected to bar hop a lot, but instead we stayed the entire night at this awesome bar called Super Sonic. They played the best music, mostly American stuff but I'm okay with that :) I danced for something like four hours straight! And the best part was, since I was one of only two Americans there, everyone assumed I knew the dance moves that went along with the songs they were playing! I think it was the first time ever that someone assumed I knew what I was doing in terms of dancing.

I got a bit of sleep at Graham's before boarding another train back to Alcalá. Needless to say, the early morning/late night train ride was not a lot fun, but I made it through and back home where I slept most of the day. I'm not convinced that this is the lifestyle I want back home, but I can say that I'll definitely be back at Graham's place before too long!