Happy Monday everyone! I had an adventure today! I was on my way back to school after "teaching" English to Carlos, which really is just a two hour conversation with a Spaniard in English with me correcting his pronunciation and verb tenses here and there. When I got off the bus at the main square (which, coincidentally, is also the last stop on the bus) there was a Mariachi band playing in the square! I walked over and watched them sing for a bit since I had nowhere to be and nothing I had to be doing for another two hours. Pretty cool! At one point, one of the guys put down his guitar and danced with a grandma who was singing along! It was adorable! They were all Mexicans (they kept saying "from Mexico to you!") and when they stopped playing, I emptied my wallet of change, which came to about 1.43 in Euros, and put it in the tambourine they were using as a money collector.
I hope you all have the chance to stop and smell the roses today. The opportunity to do something because YOU want to, not because you have to. One thing I've learned from living in Spain...Americans just go go go all the time. Slow down for a bit. I may only be 21, and I may be blogging to my aunts and uncles, my grandparents, my parents, and a whole bunch of people who have more years under their belt than I do, but from what I've learned so far, life is all about the little things. Like Mariachi bands.
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