¡Vamos a Madrid!

I am currently packing for Madrid! I am so excited to meet up with one of my best friends, Maddy, who is currently studying abroad in Salamanca. Some of her friends from her program are also going to Madrid this weekend and staying in the same hostel as us. It will be my first time staying in a hostel (we're staying in a dorm with 6 other people), but I'm really excited and am hoping for the best. We probably won't be in the room for much of the time and hopefully the people in our room will be cool and we can hang out with them. All we have planned to do so far is go on a Free Europe walking tour (the guides are paid only by tips and they're the best rated tours in Europe. win-win for college students), and I am definitely making a trip to the Prado and Reina Sofia museums. I have studied many pieces of art in both museums, most notably Picasso's 'La Guernica' which is located in La Reina Sofia. I am VERY excited for this trip!
Another trip I am wildly excited about is my trip to London at the end of April. The trip will consist of going to Cambridge, seeing my favorite DJ, Diplo, and being in London for the royal wedding!

Yesterday I spent 12 hours in the library and finished 2 research papers. I am so proud of myself and relieved. Unfortunately, I still have one more. And even though I started an outline for it, I read it over today and it is probably one of the least helpful outlines I could have possibly written.
Example:
the essay question is : How did the changing social and political conditions in seventeenth- and/or eighteenth-century Ireland affect the role and identity of the poets?
the topic sentence of the first paragraph is:  In the early 16^th century, poets were revered and had a high place in society.


Let's just laugh at how ridiculous that is and not mention my stupidity. The good thing is that the question is the same as the other research paper for the Gaelic part of the class, so I now know how to go about writing the paper and actually answering the question.


Sorry for another incredibly wordy post about nothing happening in my life. But I will have a really awesome post Sunday night or Monday with tons of wonderful pictures of yours truly in one of her favorite places, Espana! eyeyeyyy


In the meantime, I will leave you with the best commercial ever created: Grammy-nominated producer Diplo's Blackberry commercial!