Edad de Pavo.

This will probably be the most random blog yet.

Edad de Pavo is a new frase I learned here in Segovia. Edad de Pavo means you are in the primetime of your life, when you have no worries, no responsibilities, and like to party, and you have a hard time concentrating in school. That basically describes a college student to a T.
I think Georgia Southern is in their Edad de Pavo. These past couple of weeks have flown by. I never thought I was ever going to leave Spain, but we are winding down the days very quickly and America is right around the corner. I am trying to seize the day, and do everything I can before I go home. So with that in mind, I have a few stories that have been going on for the past couple of weeks.
FOOD:

This past week I ate bacalao which is a common fish that most spainards eat.. It was delicious, and she fried it which made it even better. She kept the eyes in it though it was really weird. That poor fish was staring at me.

I also ate a kebap.. Which is turkish and ate french fries with the hottest ketchup of my life.

Eggs. I can not eat another egg. Please for the love of God. No MORE EGGS. ha. Eggs fried, scrambled, boiled, sunnyside up, eggs in pasta, eggs with some kind of lamb, eggs in a cream sauce, eggs on sandwiches, eggs in salad.. I sound like Bubba off of Forest Gump but instead of shrimp, with eggs.

One night this past week Raquel asked me to make dinner. So naturally I chose pancakes. But when I went to get the ingredients their is no syrup... How am I supposed to eat pancakes without having jarobe de arce (maple syrup) so I decided to use melted strawberry jelly. They did not notice the difference, and they loved them!!!!

During this past week also Raquel and I went on a walk to the outskirts of Segovia with her two friends. It was so funny hearing them gossip in Spanish and talking about their husbands and children and all of their problems. Sometimes I forget that all people have the same problems.

But we walked all the way towards the mountain wear the mountain looks like a dead woman buried in the mountains...

Here is the legend although there are many versions. There was a beautiful woman who fell in love with this man and his best friend. Well one day the woman was pregnant but did not know which man it was from. So both of the men were fighting with swords, well the woman got in the fight because she did not want to ruin their friendship. Well one of the men ended up stabbing her while she was pregnant. This is why there is a huge hump in the picture because when she died she was still pregnant. What a horrible legend right? ha but the picture sure does look like a pregnant woman laying down..

Pizza, Pasta, Pinot. Three days thee different places to live.

Ah. getting to Rome. An experience I will never forget. We decided to leave Segovia with a group to go to Madrid around 8:30 on Wednesday night. After getting to the bus station in Segovia we hopped on a bus to go to Madrid. We arrived in Madrid about 10:15 pm. When we got to Madrid we took the Metro to the airport and arrived there finally around 11:15 pm. We found a comfy spot to set all of our belongings and began the long 7 and a half hours of waiting until check in at 5:30 am and flight at 7:30am. Well so we were like what are we going to do for 7 and a half hours?? So we went to a cafeteria to get a coffee.. Me and cassie ann asked for a machiatto. and all u coffee drinkers out there... its not what i thought it was going to be. It was a shot of coffee lol.. It was a joke. I actually could not contain myself when he gave it to me. 

So after that incident. I went to charge my phone in the bathroom for two hours. I listened to music, charged my phone, watch someone go from long hair to short hair (this girl was hacking away at her friends hair), and read a magazine in spanish. 

Around 4:30am I am starting to grow weary by the second. Us 8 americans had two different flights. Me and Cassie Ann were on one flight and the other six were on the other one. Well the other peoples flight was at 6:30 so their check in was earlier. SO when they went up there three noticed they different have their passports. So they were out of luck, and had to change their flight for a 100 euros, go back to segovia to get their passports, and take a bus back to Madrid to get on their flight to go to Rome. too much work to ask me. but they really wanted to go. So it was worth it to them .

Me and Cassie Ann checked on fine and we were finally on the way to Italy. When we arrived in Italy around 10 am. We arrived at Terminal 1. so one would think your luggage would be at Terminal 1 baggage claim.. WRONGO. it was at Terminal 3 and it took Cassie Ann and I an hour to find our luggage sitting off the conveyer belt all alooooone. I know that was spelt wrong. We were so happy that no one took our luggage. 

So we got our luggage and preceeded to find a taxi to get us to our "hotel" that we suppppposedly book for three nights.. But I'll get to that in a second. Our hotel is about 40 min outside the airport so we had to take a private taxi to get us their... It costed us 40 euros which in translation to American money about 60 bucks... A little ridiculous if you ask me... But we did not care at that point because we were food deprived and exhausted. So we were riding along and we ended up having to share the taxi with a couple.. they looked like they were worth a million dollars and got dropped off at the ritz carlton of Rome, Italy for a million dollar wedding no big deal. 

When we arrived at our hotel we went upstairs to our hotel to find out we just booked the hotel for Saturday night so we were out of a hotel for two nights... Very disappointed, sad, tired, and hungry Cassie Ann and I set out to find another hotel. We ended up finding a place close to our first restaurant in Italy. When Cassie Ann and I were eating lunch which was a fresh creamy pasty with spinach and persuitto with a bottle of white wine!

we met three guys from Colorado were eating next to us and later that day they ended up being our tour guides because they had been in Italy for three days. At 4:30 we met the guys outside of the restaurant, it was pouring raining.. But we did not care, we were in ITALY! They guys ended up showing me and Cassie Ann where termini station was (which is the big metro station to basically get everywhere in Italy), showing us how to buy our ROMA passes which got us free into everywhere and free metro and bus tickets, and to us to Vatican City!! 

Let's talk about the metro for a second. It was NASTY and people do not know what deodorant is. I have never smelled something like that in my entire life. They like to go all natural here, and that's just not ok people. 

Vatican City was breath taking, but me and Cassie Ann couldn't go inside because we were wearing dresses and you have to be wearing sleeves and pants to enter... 

After the Vatican the guys, Cassie Ann, and I went to dinner at a Pizzeria and got pizza!! Basically I can never eat pizza ever again because Italian pizza is unbeatable. It is fresh cheeses, sauce, and bread, and different kinds of toppings like potatoes. YUMMY! 

The Colorado boys after dinner got swindled into buying me and Cassie Ann a half of a dozen roses lol because the guy who was selling them basically robbed one of the guys of the money. Then the guys took us to the famous Gelato place to get gelato. I got Nutella. 

 Later that night, we met up with the rest of the guys later that night to have a bottle of wine.. and when we went to pay we saw a charge that you have to pay to sit outside their establishment. Ok italy. That next morning we walked Rome up and down... We first visited Coliseum which was beyond anything I could have imagined. We went outside and inside. 

Then we went to the Fontana de Trevi... Beautfiul. Threw in three coins (backwards).

1. Signifying you are coming back to Rome one day

2. Find Love

3. Marry your Love

Then we went to the Roman Forum, but we did not go inside because it would have taken forever. 

Then we went to the Pantheon. LARGE. I have seen it in pictures, but going inside and sitting in the pews made it feel like real life. After a long day around Rome. We decided to go to this cliche Coliseum party... which was very fun. We were able to meet other Americans, go to a few bars around Rome, and have complete transportation everywhere and free pizza. So at the end it was very worth it! The next day we went to eat pasta, but instead I got a calzone bigger than my whole body. 

A couple of random things cause I did not know where to fit them in my blog. 

1. I love Italian accents.. can i marry an Italian please?

2. When i wanted my passport stamped she would not stamp it because she said Italy and Spain are both in Europe... Well I know that DUMMY. but i still want the pretty stamp. She did not get that. 

3.  Piacere.. means nice to meet you. 

4. I only learned like three words in Italian in three days.

5. We had to move three different times into three different hotels. 

6. Italians are very cocky and touchy. 

7. And it took me and Cassie Ann from 6:30 in the morning til 4:30 in the afternoon to get home that Sunday. 

Lastly.....

I love Rome, Italy. 

Next update: Segovia so quaint.