We are going to Madrid!

After losing my documents, I had two options. Either I get a temporary ID (30+30 EUR) to fly home and quickly process my personal document (30,000 HUF), or I travel to Madrid where they can make it for free.

Luckily, we already planned a trip to Madrid with the Wu girls, and the weather turned out to be sunny instead of rainy, so we quickly booked an accommodation for Tuesday afternoon and a bus for Friday at 3:30 in the morning (I had an appointment at the consulate at 10, and it's good that we saved a day's worth of accommodation fee)

Four of us girls went and we had a great time :) this trip brought us even closer together. For example, it was really cute when we were freezing at the rooftop bar on Gran Vía and analyzed each other's origins (we looked for our houses on Google Maps) and families (we showed each other photos).

We were a bit worried that 2.5 days wouldn't be enough, but we managed to see the most important things on the first day:

Mercado de San Miguel, Plaza Mayor, Temple of Debod, Royal Palace, Retiro Park, Palacio Cristal,..

So we spent the following days more relaxed. Every morning we went somewhere for breakfast, of course we left around 7-10 euros per person at the city's most highly rated and fancy café and I still didn't get full -.- . We had to take coffee breaks at least 4-5 times a day (also in fancy restaurants), but they found the 10 euro entrance fee to the Royal Palace too much, so I went inside with Sophie only. I still need to get used to the Austrian lifestyle.

I thought that Europe's 3rd largest city would be much dirtier and unfriendly, but luckily I was wrong. It has very beautiful parts and is a livable city. It is much more hilly compared to Valencia (Valencia is completely flat).

Unfortunately, I got sick in the week after the tour, so I had to reduce the number of weekday parties again.

So after 1 month, I'm starting to feel that I didn't just come for a vacation (even though I still haven't managed to study for the university) , and I already miss everyone more. It's very strange that I haven't heard a Hungarian voice in the city or at the university (except for the embassy and the family visit). Even a group of about 8 Croatian students formed. But supposedly there are two Hungarian Erasmus students. I was surprisingly happy to hear about their existence. In many cases, I have to clarify that despite living in Austria for 3 years and speaking German, I am not Austrian at all, but I come from a country that many people haven't heard of.

Unfortunately, my French roommate, Emma, is going back home this week, which I'm very sorry about because we became quite good friends. Based on my idea, we surprised her with a t-shirt (saying: no hago nada en la uniersidad de Valencia, sponsored by Mya). We were about 15 at her farewell party and we had really delicious pizza.

(mostly roommates in the picture)