Today was a Madrid holiday, so I got the day off of work!! ^_^ I had good intentions to spend it working on my thesis, but of course, I didn't. I woke up at 2:30, lazed in bed for another three hours, and then finally got up to to showered and ready to meet a guy in Madrid for a language exchange.
This is the fourth time I've done this, and oddly every time I do it it's with late 20s guys who are computer programmers. O_o Coincidence. Though based on a small sample size, I'd have to conclude that computer programmers, though financially relatively well off, are fairly dull people - or, at least, dull conversationalists. It turns out that I spend the whole time talking, and when I try to ask them questions, they have two second responses. That being said, it's a amazing I can spend 2-5 hours with these people speaking in Spanish as if I were in an interminable monologue. >_< Don't get me wrong - it's fun. I have been introduced to cool cafes and restaurants thanks to this, as well as have been getting good Spanish practice in and building my foreign language confidence... But I was also really hoping to make some friends by doing this and, so far no go. I'm thinking I'm going to have to take a new approach; I need to join a class or a club or something. But what am I interested in that would yield the biggest amount of intriguing people? The next two weeks will be taken up by my thesis, and the two weeks after that by visits from John (he just told me yesterday that he's gonna visit me - yay!!!!) and Lili. And then I'll only have two weeks left and probably will be busy with figuring out my next step, honestly. But after I get resettled into my next life, I need to make a more conscious effort to make friends. Hopefully I can will some inspired idea of how to make them while I'm busy on the thesis and hanging out with visiting friends. :)
XOXO
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