Episode 7: October

¡Hola!

I have realized that I am a little bit behind with telling you all my stories and experiences here, so this blog will be about October and next blog will describe my nice month of November! Well, in short October was a very special month because I had a bad experience as well as some “peaks”. Let’s start with the worst and end with the nice things!

One Monday evening I felt very tired, but I thought this was normal because I had a exhausting football training the night before, after which I slept few hours and then I went to school and played another football match. I decided to go to bed early and then everything would be fine the next day. Well, it turned out to be different. I will not go into detail, but I was ill for eight days. I suffered from diarrhea, nausea, fever, abdominal cramps, etc. On Friday morning I decided to see a doctor. It appeared that there was one who had consulting hours at my university! It was a little bit difficult to understand all medical terms in Spanish and therefore the doctor sometimes used gestures to inform me, which was often very funny. After 8 days in total, three different medicines and two more trips to the doctor, I was healthy again and went to Morocco! Read my previous blog if you would like to know more about his travel!

Well, of course the rest of the month was great again! I visited Salamanca, played my first football matches and was quite often not at home during the evenings/nights… What I did? I went to club Pacha for example. And we had another dinner scheduled; with my friends here, we try to have dinners with food from our different cultures every two weeks or so. This time, it was my Swiss friend’s turn to cook. She made three dishes and it was amazingly delicious! I will never forget these dinners with the six of us, I enjoy it very very much!!! Furthermore, I went to the “cocktail street”. Actually it is called Calle de la Reina, but the Spanish came up with this other name, simply because there are so many cocktail bars in this street. Another day, my two Turkish flat mates celebrated the birthday of one of them. It was interesting to experience the way a birthday was celebrated in the Turkish culture. It included Turkish music, Turkish food and even Turkish dances!

The last thing I would like to inform you about is that my sister and best friend visited me from October 25 till October 27. It was absolutely great to see family or friends after 2 months! I showed them my Spanish life and we enjoyed it together.

No anecdote this time, because it is a quite long blog already, but I do share with you a picture of course! It is the façade of the University of Salamanca with a lot of tourists in front of it who try to find “the frog”. The story behind this is that if you are able to find the frog without the help of a guide or anyone, it will bring you luck…

¡Adios!