Did you know that most of the restruarnts don't open until 8 pm for dinner? And that's considered an early dinner. We had one dinner party scheduled to start at 10 (but we got lost and it ended up becing closer to 11)
They have what is called La Marcha every night. Bacsically everyone dresses to the nines, even young children, and they head out to see and be seen. It consists of a lot of window shopping (since the shops usually close about 6 or 7) and socializing in the streets. After the kids are sent home the night turns into a city wide pub crawl.
Since we were 'students' at the time and keeping American time (8-5 and no 2 hours siesta) we didn't participate very often, however we could hear them outside our apartments all hours of the early morning.
Towards the end of the course we went out a few more times. Even though we don't drink (and it wasn't just us, two of the other girls drank very little) we would go out with all the students and our teachers.
Our Crazy teacher....
Once we tried to go to dinner...we planned on going at 7 pm. That was before we realized that most places didn't open until 8 pm. Silly Americans and Brits!
Quiz night at one of the pubs
Lauren's birthday dinner
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