I forgot the best part of my evening the night I went to tapas because it was overshadowed by my frustrations.
While I was walking to the tapas bar, I was stopped by a man who (all in Spanish) asked me for directions! And I knew what he was talking about, where it was, and I gave him directions in Spanish!!! After two weeks in Oviedo, I am officially a local.
(Maybe I'm not THAT knowledgeable, but I'm still (wicked) proud!!)
Anyways, that was definitely the highlight of my night and I can't believe I forgot to mention it. But, while we're here, I will just mention that last night I met up with some friends from Umass at a cidrería to watch the Madrid-Barca game (Real Madrid y Barcelona). It was really fun. At first, I wasn't sure who the people would be rooting for, because in Spain you have your regional/local team and then you either root for Madrid or Barcelona. Barcelona scored two unanswered goals and the bar was pretty happy, so I thought most were Barca fans, but when Madrid came back with two goals, the bar was just as loud. A pretty even split, I'd say.
This was the second of two games that were scored together as one because, apparently, they play at one team's home stadium one week and the other team's the next. (Also, "away" goals are "worth" more. Yes, really.) So, because Barcelona had "won" 2-1 last week IN Madrid, the fact that Madrid had tied the game this week in Barcelona didn't matter. Barcelona won. (Aka, the total score was 4-3, but if Madrid had tied it IN Barcelona (4-4 total), Madrid would have won because they would have had 3 away goals whereas Barcelona would have only had 2. It makes sense, just takes a minute to think about.) Barcelona, I have decided, is my team, since Madrid seems to be a team of assholes...
Anyways, I'm off to Madrid in two and a half hours! ¡Hasta Luego!
*Besos*
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