Friday
On the last day of any holiday everything is like a ritual, the last time you get up from this bed, the last time you brush your teeth in this house in the morning, it goes on... so we were obviously very sad and her parents gave me like triple the amount in my packed lunch and sent me off to school. In school we didn't do much, not that we did that much learning the days before but this time all I can remember from that last day class was him putting on salsa and Yona (this actual martian in my year) dancing and looking like an idiot! We all bid our teacher fare well (a teacher we would actually miss) and left school and someone bought chillies. Trying to be hard core I put a big chunk of it seeds and all in my mouth and almost died. My mouth felt like it was being licked with flames for an hour.
Meanwhile... Joe had bought something more scandalous than chillies he bought a 5€ hamster. He bought it in a shopping centre, let it run loose for 20 minutes then had to think of an excuse to return it and all he could say in Spanish was 'es loco' meaning it's crazy and when they told him he couldn't return it he threatened to kill it so they gave him a refund in the end. When I heard about it I couldn't help not being suprised because it's such a classic Joe thing to do.
Anyway when we went back to our exchanges and went back to theirs for a late lunch my family had prepared me a lasagne... but not the weird kind they make which had no tomatoes or anything. Then with a big group of our exchanges they took us up to the shops around our school which we weren't that pleased about because we'd spent all week looking around those shops so instead of actually shopping me, Giorgia, Tracy, Rosalind, Nena and Precious decided to find the ugliest clothes we could and try them on, luckily the shop owners couldn't understand us, unluckily it was pretty bait why we were laughing so much! Then we went to sit in a café and Jackson joined us, we started talking about Amys exchange Aurora and Jackson told us he was going to get with her that night, then someone said their exchange said he looked like Robert Pattison and another said their exchange said he was really fashionable. And we all burst out laughing and were in hysterics for half an hour whilst he said 'hey guys, what are you laughing about?' which obviously made it funnier.
After shopping where we hardly bought anything we all went home to change for going out and I tried to get Patri to dress old so we could get into shops but she refused to wear a skirt or a dress so wore a blouse over jeans and did that classic Spanish thing where the shoes, top and earrings match all red. Me, Amy, Nena and our exchanges met up to put make up on them for the first time it was very cute. Then they took us out to pizza...
It was a shit hole they called a pizza place; you could hardly walk around because your feet stuck to the floor, there was pizza everywhere on the walls, floors, and prison like windows. We didn't care so long as we could go clubbing (what our WHOLE week had been building up to). But I think one of the exchanges persauded all the others and they started to say we weren't gunna go. We started to get pissed, after a week of them telling us we were going and suddenly no, we're gunna keep you in this rundown pizza place for the night whilst the other exchanges go have fun. That wasn't gunna happen so when they started collecting money for drinking on a bridge Tracy started crying (obviously the tears were only there to get her way) and she did. Me, Tracy and Precious got snuck off to the club (our exchanges clearly thinking we weren't going to get in) so when we did... they had no idea what to do. I was up for ditching my exchange for the night and partying but others weren't so I left the club. When I came out my exchange said 'I am very angry with you.' In heavy Spanish accent so I just walked off towards a different club with my friends and the exchanges in the year above her. She started saying I couldn't and we were going home, when Aoifes exchange stepped in looking all fashionable and older and told her I was going to stay with them. My exchange backed off. Who wouldn't?
So I was allowed what? An hour of fun? But thank god I was allowed that because it was so much fun! Aoife got off with a different boy... right infront of Pablo but oh well, Toby got off with a hideous girl and we've been teasing him ever since, we all danced and the Spanish girls who weren't our exchanges didn't like us because all the boys were looking at us but it was fun and heart breaking when I had to leave! I went home with my exchange, Tracy and Precious managed to make their exchanges cry one that night and one the morning after but me and mine made up and had girly gossip late into the night. So I was soooo depressed when I had to go!
The next morning there were tears, and a million hugs and braclet givings and a weird hokey kokey type thing the Spanish people showed us and we were taken home. But not with out my scream when we landed:
"ENGLAND BABYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!"
MILLY.D
